Sunday, October 19, 2008

Creative person who I admire




I liked this topic which encouraged me to write about a creative person who I am interested in. People's opinions may differ about a creative work and a creative person, but from my point of view, adding a new value, finding a new way to live, leaving a distinguished reputation or a great achievement is a creative work.
I knew lots of people who did a creative work, but I would like to write about the dean of Computing and Information Technology College in our university in Saudi Arabia-Dr.Arwa Al Aama.
Maybe she is not well known everywhere, but she has been doing creative works in our university.
In her early life, she tried to join a scholarship program, but she couldn’t because in that time the scholarship programs in my country were for men only. She faced lots of difficulties in her life, but she could overcome them and become the best. However, she joined George Washington University in U.S.A, and she got a master and PHD degrees. She got many awards and certificates from GWU and from our government as well.
After she came back, she did astonishing works in our university. She changed some courses, added new courses and improved our computers’ labs. Also, she added a project for each course and each project serves one category in our society by developing programs, developing websites or developing electronic systems.
By this way, she lets students benefit the society by their projects in each course.
Furthermore, she lets them see and practice environment of works by sending them to companies if those companies have programming problems in order to recommend solutions for them. Also, she always gives suggestions to improve the computer science department which became the most successful department in our university.
Recently, it was transformed to an independent college. She also works as a consultant for many famous companies in our country.
She taught me that creative people usually don’t give up easily or early. They persevere and work hard. Also, they seek problems, find them interesting and see them as opportunities. She benefited me a lot, and I admire her works. I hope that I can work with her one day.


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Sunday, October 5, 2008

The Reality of Success



I believe that there is no person can succeed without help from someone else. The help can be from father, mother, friend, husband, wife, sister or anybody who gives him words, money, encouragement or any kind of help. Everybody has a dream or a goal wants to achieve it, and needs any of these kinds of help to move on. When people want to achieve their goals, they may face some problems have to solve them, risks have to overcome them, loans have to pay them, or some weaknesses have to overcome them. Therefore, people have to help each other to achieve their goals even if they have their own achievements, and they must not live for themselves only, because there are another people are waiting at least one word to live. Sometimes one word is enough to change other person life.
I think the person should not be as a candle bursts itself to give the light to others, but must be as a tree benefits people by its shadow and fruit, but it also still strong and firm. The biggest companies in the world were established by some individuals who share their ideas, money, reputations and works.There are a lot of examples in ourlives which prove that people need help from others to succeed.
I still remember the story about the nine disabled people who participated in Seattle Olympic. They could not run but they liked to participate and try. After the contest began, one of them fell on the ground and started to cry. The other eight people came back to him, and one Mongolian girl hugged him and she asked him “do you feel ok now?”. Then all of them started to walk together, and the entire crowd clapped along time. All people were affected by this situation because all of us know that the live is greater than make the win for only ourselves. This is the reality of success
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I hope you enjoy my topic.
see you later :)

Friday, October 3, 2008

Welcome


Hi
Welcome to my blog, I liked the idea of writing our journal in this way, and I hope all my classmates too :)