To-do for College Students (and everyone else, too)

I recently contributed a post to the website GOOD.is emphasizing my personal belief in the power of taking what we've learned from the classroom (and outside the classroom, too) and applying it to the real world to create solutions for some of the most pressing social issues of today. Working at the Love Kids Orphanage is hopefully just the start of my lifelong journey to contribute to a better society in whatever way I can, with the skills I've learned along the way.

But the power in this application of knowledge doesn't just apply to the college-age population. Thirty-somethings, forty-somethings, fifty-somethings, sixty-somethings -- recall back to your younger, idealistic days and harness the youthful urgency you may have once felt toward pursuit of your own dreams. Passion and talent don't end at age 22, and neither should the pursuit of our dreams to create a better world.