College Students Work As Humanitarians in Relief Missions

Many college students volunteer to work in a third world country helping others while they are in college. Helping others is a great way to earn credits while building up a great resume after you graduate from college. You should try to do projects that are in line with your major in college. You will find that doing international public service is very rewarding as well as beneficial to your own character.

You find that many times the people that you meet and work with in third world countries have a beautiful insight to life that will help you to become a better person just by knowing and working with them. You should try to do something that is constructive in your projects. You could devise a water purification system for instance if you are studying environmental engineering. This will help a remote village plagued by contaminated water while helping you earn your degree. Perhaps you are working with computers and network systems then use your knowledge to help others set up a computer lab gaining access to the outside world. You will find that countries like Africa, South America or rural Asia would be very happy to have you come and help them gain access to others by the use of a computer.

You can gain access to many people by helping them with a short-term humanitarian mission on your part that will help others better themselves in the world in which they live. Many college students engage themselves in helping people and needs of other places and cultures in an effort to make a positive public contribution. You may span yourself to help a wide range of people or you can join a humanitarian group to help a small group of people. In either case you will find that you are a better person for your efforts and the people you help are very appreciative. Helping others can be rewarding helping you to grow as an individual in ways that you never thought possible.

You do not always have to travel abroad to work doing a humanitarian relief mission. You can find that by going to the Appalachian areas of America and helping people have a better life style is also rewarding. People need help to build homes, get a better education and even learn how to work on a job that will pay them a descent income to support their families. There are programs that help people in America today that you can join and find that you will receive great satisfaction in your work with your fellow Americans.

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Trying to Open the Mind of an Academic Isn't Worth Your Time

Okay, try this sometime, try explaining in laymen's terms why an academic or professor is wrong about something. It's just amazing how close minded they really are. Worse, their authoritative personality displacement makes them completely dangerous when they are outside of the field of their endeavors. So, why not remember this quote when dealing with such academic know-it-alls:

"A person convinced against their will is of the same opinion still."

What academics do not understand is that "fact" is not only those things written into research papers, but it also involves experience and observations outside the laboratory in the real world. You see, if "personal experience" and "real observation" are not allowed into the academic discussion then the academics are in denial of reality.

In that case, why should they be trusted with their information, if they cannot explain it or won't for fear of conflict? Surely, someone who will not talk about actual observation or denies these events is not worthy of dialogue.

If an academic decides your questions are not worthy, and they refuse to argue points of contention, simply change the definition from argument to challenge. After all, these folks are masters at changing definitions to prove themselves right. Say something like this:

Please understand, this is not an argument, it is an "In Your Face Challenge" to your purported belief system with regards to this information you have presented. You presented this information and teach it, thus, I would hope you actually believe it right?

If so, then you ought to be able to discuss it, I would think. What is or isn't productive is regardless of my desire to explore this deeper and your need to learn beyond the academic agreed upon findings.

Surely, you can defend your position better than refusal to discuss it. Why are you afraid to do that? I realize your students probably do not challenge these things much, so I guess you are safe hanging around those that believe this stuff hook-line-and-sinker. That is scary. "

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