How To Get Involved With Your Passions

A recent post on Ask MetaFilter asks:
How do you cope when you seem to be surrounded on all sides by ineffectiveness and apathy?
In his question, jmnugent talks about his frustration at seeing his work and ideas not coming to fruition due to the apathy around him. He feels that not many people “care about quality [...]

Updates

It’s been a while since I have written in here: I have been quite busy. There is definitely plenty to write about, but here are some snippets:
1. Part 2 of the Guide to Semester at Sea has been posted. In here, the author Tom Muller writes about his experience on board – taking classes, boat [...]

Blogathon: #31 – What I Strive For

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The Blogathon front page has this question now:
What do you most strive for in your life: accomplishment, security, love, power, excitement, knowledge, or something else?
Let me explain this by writing a little bit about how I got involved in alternative education.
School was a mixed bag [...]

Blogathon: #26 – Review: What Should I Do With My Life?

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The first time I read Po Bronson’s What Should I Do With My Life?, I didn’t quite like it. I liked the Oprah special, such stories interest me, and thought the book would just be as interesting. However, I got fed up with Bronson continually [...]

Blogathon: #4 – The “Now What” Feeling

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Right now I have a bit of the “now what” feeling.
Currently: I just posted a really poignant blog post, and now everything else doesn’t seem to come up right. I have a list of topics to go through, but after that post, it’s a little [...]

Feeling The Thrill: Cast P for Passion

This blog has been silent for about two weeks – and with good reason. For the past couple of weeks, I have been in Denver, Colorado, USA, to volunteer for Up With People's Premiere of the new Global Education Program.
In that time span, I reconnected with my host family; caught up with some dear friends [...]

The Thrill’s Just Starting

So plenty has happened ever since I thought about that thrill in my toes. It seems that the thrill is just about to begin.
My round of interviews for the World Bank Essay Competiton has started, and I've received some pretty good responses. I even managed to talk to Bob and DeeAnn over Skype (add me, [...]

Thrill To Your Toes

A while ago one of my horoscopes (I'm a Libra if you're interested in knowing) told me that I will – or should – be doing something that "thrills [me] to [my] toes". That got me thinking about what exactly does thrill me to that extent; that feeling of knowing you're doing what you're supposed [...]