“The investments we make in ourselves will always deliver the most profitable returns.”
― Sumner Davenport
When I first thought of the word investment, I thought in
terms of money and essentially investing it. Obviously, college is not cheap
and can be seen as an education investment. But going through various classes
this semester, this word has many other meanings and is a very important word
while going through the college experience.
Between
balancing school work, family, friends, and actually being a human, college involves
investing your entire mind and body. It is crucial that your whole self
provides a way to indulge in the learning going on and also the
responsibilities which are needed to fill. Along with this, we as students are
investing a lot of time and energy into our education in hopes that it will
greater our chances of reaching the American dream and being successful. Investing comes with risk, loss, and profit and these all can be used to learn important lessons about ourselves and the world around us. We should
learn right from the start that investing ourselves in college and all that it
has to offer can only better us in the end and tremendous learning will
absolutely follow.
Two new
words I learned this week include, gelt, which is a noun and a slang term for
money and also, hapless, an adjective meaning, “having no luck; unfortunate.” By
investing myself into college, hopefully I will not end up a hapless person
with little gelt.
How can you make sure your 'self' is improved?
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