SAU Honors College

The SAU Honors College was founded in 2003 by Dr. David Rankin, president of SAU. Dr. Lynne Belcher served as founding director and recently retired from SAU. The Honors College seeks and admits qualified students who seek to pursue a serious academic program with equally gifted peers and committed teachers. Honors classes are small and provide academically enriching opportunities for students and the faculty who teach them. Currently, SAU enrolls nearly 170 honors students and graduates about 66% of admitees in four years or less. Anyone interested in applying to the Honors College or seeking further information should contact the director, Dr. Edward P. Kardas at epkardas@saumag.edu or at 870 904-8897.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Fofana, Ceesay: Bucket List


I was under the impression that I didn’t have anything serious enough to put on my bucket list because my main interests nowadays seem to revolve around eating and sleeping. But after a lot of head-scratching, I’ve come up with a somehow clichéd list.
First (but not foremost), is travelling around Europe. Having met a lot of pleasant Europeans over a long summer break, I’ve decided that I must one day travel around Europe and get exposed to more pleasant personalities. Who knows, their niceness might rub off on me. 

My next item also involves travelling as I plan to someday live, work and study in Canada for a few years (if I can somehow survive the cold). I think it would be thrilling to live in a country filled with so many opportunities.

I imagine that in the not-so-distant future, I’ll be interning at a technology-based company. Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all come to mind but I am too realistic and know when I’m taking things too far. I’m sure that I will be perfectly content working at a less well-known organization. It should be a fulfilling experience to actually write code for an application that someone might find useful.

Self-fulfillment is on my agenda. I hope to get through life without getting too caught up in its nitty-gritty details. It’s all too easy to concentrate on only the negatives of life, maybe I can actually become someone who always sees something positive to smile about. 

Finally, because I have this weird conviction that anything I put on a to-do list becomes something I will never do, I hope that I can look back at this one day and laugh at myself for once thinking that by writing these items down, I would never get to do them.

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