Avenues to Success Notes

Avenues to Success for 07/31/11

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
     - African proverb                                                                      

 

All student loans are similar, the difference can mean big savings

Here's a link to an interesting article about saving money by taking the time in selecting student loans.

Choose student loans on your own terms, posted July 29, 2011 in Chicago Tribune, states:

Often less attention goes into selecting college student loans. The decision gets shunted aside or made in an instant because tuition is due, loans have confusing names and the financial aid office at your college might provide little guidance. Many students assume all student loans are similar — a mistake that can inflict thousands of dollars in unnecessary debt. . . .

. . . But even if your financial aid office isn't particularly helpful, you can identify the best loans yourself. (continue reading)

 

Avenues to Success for 07/30/11

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
     - John Constable, 1776-1837, English Romantic painter

 
Cowdray House: The ruins 14 September 1834
by John Constable
Image source: National Gallery of Australia

 

Avenues to Success for 07/29/11

Honor is the reward of virtue.
     - Marcus T.Cicero, 106-43 BCE, Roman statesman, orator, writer

 
Image source: Post - Breathtaking views of Kazakhstan nature in the Kazakhstan travel and tourism blog

 

Here are some college students making really tough choices

I happened to catch the two installments of a really interesting peak into college at a New York State prison on PBS NewsHour.

Here are the links to the first installment, From Ball and Chain to Cap and Gown: Getting a B.A. Behind Bars, aired 7/6/2011, and the second, How to Succeed in Business by Really, Really Trying, aired the following night.

The Bard College program demonstrates what opportunities a true liberal arts education can open up. If works on motivated prisoners, just think what a motivated "normal" college student can do.

Maybe "undecided" as a major isn't all bad, as long as you make the best of the college experience.

The report presents an untapped source very qualified prospective workers.

 

 

 

Avenues to Success for 07/28/11

Anyone who isn't confused here doesn't know what's going on.
     - Nigel Wrench, Born 1960, English radio presenter

The color of confusion created by TheColorof.com

This is a real neat site. Its description on the About page:

This is a system created to find out the colour of anything, by querying and aggregating image data from Flickr, a popular online photo sharing community. It is an attempt at answering a potentially complex and abstract question in an objective manner, by using simple algorithms on data originating from subjective human perceptions.

Give it a try with the link above.

 

Avenues to Success for 07/26/11

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
     - Shirley MacLaine, Born 1934, American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author

 

 

Avenues to Success for 07/27/11

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
     - Faith Baldwin, 1893-1978, American novelist

  Image source: Post in whatsonxiamen.com - China's unusual phenomenon: buildings torn down unnaturally

 

 

Avenues to Success for 07/25/11

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
     - Thomas J. Watson, Sr., 1874-1956, American industrialist

Image source: Wikipedia

I've seen this quote also attributed to Thomas J. Watson, Jr. however, The Executive's Book of Quotations by Julia Vitullo-Martin, J. Robert Moskin cites Good Advice, by Leonard Safire and William Safir, p. 336 giving Sr. credit forthe quote. Any other information would be appreciated.

 

Avenues to Success for 07/24/11

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
     - Don Sutton, Born 1945, American Major League Baseball pitcher and radio sportscaster

Visit the Baseball Hall of Fame for Don Sutton's biography.