37 Pieces of Advice I Didn't Hear in College

1. Your degree doesn't make you special and it doesn't guarantee you a job, happiness, or success. 
2. College debt should not be taken on frivolously and it can limit your options tremendously.
3. Studying the liberal arts can be very valuable for your future career. Getting a degree in liberal arts, not so much. Don't trust the adviser who tells you otherwise.
4. A law degree should never be a backup plan.
5. If your degree is the most impressive thing about you by the time you've graduated, you're doing it wrong.
6. Don't stress about your grades — in the end, there's only you and the value you can create.
7. Regularly assign yourself creative projects to finish and put out into the world.
8. Don't brag about your all nighters — all I see is someone who procrastinates.
9. College is not and should not be the best time of your life.
10. Spend the bulk of your studying time learning about things you don't learn in class.

Best thing in the world that the coming generations will miss

This picture, lately I have fallen in love. Beautifully portrays how we have been becoming slaves of TECHNOLOGY.

Clicking the picture, eh, look at how she is living the moment.

A bullet that reached its destiny years later

Henry Ziegland thought he had dodged fate. 

In 1883, he broke off a relationship with his girlfriend who, out of distress, committed suicide. The girl's brother was so enraged that he hunted down Ziegland and shot him.

The brother, believing he had killed Ziegland, then turned his gun on himself and took his own life. But Ziegland had not been killed. The bullet, in fact, had only grazed his face and then lodged in a tree. Ziegland surely thought he was a lucky man. 

Twenty years later, however, Ziegland decided to cut down the large tree, which still had the bullet in it. The task seemed so formidable that he decided to blow it up with a few sticks of dynamite. 

The explosion propelled the bullet into Ziegland's head, killing him.

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Heart Touching Story

An Ex Indian President Dr. Abdul Kalam Says:

When I was a kid, my Mom cooked food for us.

One night in particular when she had made dinner after a long hard day's work, Mom placed a plate of 'subzi'(vegetable) and extremely burnt roti in front of my Dad.

I was waiting to see if anyone noticed the burnt roti(bread). But Dad just ate his roti and asked me how my day was at school.

I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember I heard Mom apologizing to Dad for the burnt roti(bread).

And I'll never forget what he said: "Honey, I love burnt roti(bread)."

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy, good night & I asked him if he really liked his roti burnt. He wrapped me in his arms & said: "Your momma put in a long hard day at work today and she was really tired. And  besides... A burnt roti(bread) never hurts anyone but HARSH WORDS DO!"

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Factors to be considered for flooring

• Traffic

• Durability & Performance

• Safety

• Comfort

• Style

• Water & Moisture

• Noise

Traffic

Traffic refers to how many people use a room, and how frequently. Higher traffic means greater wear on the floor, but the nature of a room’s use is also important.

High Traffic

Rooms and areas with high traffic include:

• Entrances, staircases and landings

• Kitchens, recreation rooms and some bathrooms

For floors in high-traffic rooms, more durable flooring materials (wood, ceramic tile, natural stone tile, vinyl and laminate) and more durable types of carpets (berber, frieze, indoor-outdoor) should be considered.

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Three feet from GOLD

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

An uncle of R. U. Darby was caught by the "gold fever" in the gold-rush days, and went west to DIG AND GROW RICH. He had never heard that more gold has been mined from the brains of men than has ever been taken from the earth. He staked a claim and went to work with pick and shovel. The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite.

After weeks of labor, he was rewarded by the discovery of the shining ore. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the surface. Quietly, he covered up the mine, retraced his footsteps to his home in Williamsburg, Maryland, told his relatives and a few neighbors of the "strike." They got together money for the needed machinery, had it shipped. The uncle and Darby went back to work the mine.

The first car of ore was mined, and shipped to a smelter. The returns proved they had one of the richest mines in Colorado! A few more cars of that ore would clear the debts. Then would come the big killing in profits.

Narayanhiti Palace Museum

The existing Narayanhiti Royal Palace, built by King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, had been the primary residence of the country’s monarchs, until the last King Gyanendra and the monarchy was abolished by the Nepalese government in 2008 AD. It was designed and constructed by an American architect Benjamin Polk and supervised by Nepali engineer Shanker Nath Rimal. This was the third mansion built in this area whose construction began in 1963 AD.

Bowerbirds' Architecture

Bowerbirds

Bowerbirds as a group are some of the most fascinating of all birds because of their incredible and elaborate architectural abilities. Well known is the fact that male bowerbirds create the most elaborate displays to attract females for mating, putting untold effort into designing, crafting, and displaying the perfect "love nest" to attract females of the species. But less well known is the amount of thought and calculation put into the creation of the perfect bower. Depending on the species, bowerbirds will get extremely detailed about the colors used, how the colors are displayed and even more interesting, the geometry of the displays.

The Alchemist - Prologue

The Alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus. 

The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who daily knelt beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus. 

But this was not how the author of the book ended the story. He said that when Narcissus died, the Goddesses of the Forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears. 

"Why do you weep?" the Goddesses asked. 

"I weep for Narcissus," the lake replied. 

"Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus," they said, "for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand." 

"But..... was Narcissus beautiful?" the lake asked. 

"Who better than you to know that?" the Goddesses said in wonder, "After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!!" 

The lake was silent for some time. Finally it said: 

"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected."

"What a lovely story," the alchemist thought.