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FROM ISSUE # 127 (July 2006) | IN THIS ISSUE
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It's time to make choices again. Once the SLC results are out, there will be young students sitting around scratching their heads trying to figure out what to do next. Which college should they go to? What should they study? What after that?

While you are in school, it's all so easy: the teachers teach and you either learn or don't learn. There'll always be this yearning to return to schooldays when things were less complicated and decisions about your future weren't left to you. Now, your life is in your own hands and you don't know quite what to do. People throw suggestions at you left and right. They want you to listen to them. The point is, listen to yourself first.

Ask yourself what is it that you truly like doing? How do you see yourself a decade from now? It is a bad idea to go by what career is in vogue or what scope a certain subject has now. Times change. By the time you start working, your subject might be relegated to the backwaters and you might be unhappy. However, if it is something that you thrive on, it won't matter because every workday will mean getting paid for something you'd do for free. It might take time for you to understand what you want to do but you are allowed to make mistakes as long as you learn from them. Life does give you second chances.


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