What Goals to Achieve in College Book: A Different Mirror Author: Ronald Takaki

I often wonder why I am in college. I know that college will prepare me for the career I choose to pursue and make me that best that I can be in that field. But there should be other things that I could be learning aside from calculating probabilities and writing clear and thorough essays. Then I stumble and Ronald Takaki's book, A Different Mirror, falls into my hands. I read through the first chapter, …

…the more likely it is we learn to work with them and create a peaceful and developing world for the next generations. It may also teach us that we are capable of so much more than we think; being ambitious and trying to make those ambitions come true doesn't make a person foolish. It makes them strong, for they know their potential and they are giving their all to receive what they know they deserve.