Advice:: Play Politics – NYTimes.com

Nice list on what to do in college, read the whole thing!
I fancy myself as still young, but I also believe that if it’s anybody’s time it’s our generation’s time now! LET US SPEAK UP! LET US BE INVOLVED!

5. Do not fear political activism. I was once at an event where a student asked Jimmy Carter how he, formerly the guardian of American law, felt years earlier when his freshman daughter was arrested at a protest against apartheid. He answered: “I cannot tell you how proud I was. If you young people cannot express your conscience now, when will you? Later you will have duties, jobs, families that make that harder. You will never be freer than now.” Also, among the activists, you are more likely to meet the intellectually adventurous people mentioned in the last item.
via Op-Ed Contributor – Play Politics – NYTimes.com.

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