2008 is one exciting year to start with. It kicked off with the deaths of Brad Renfro and Heath Ledger. Then an Australian futurist made a very dire warning by saying that another Ice Age will cause China to be flooded in the next 40 years or so and Greenland will be the future colony of earth. That means that this early, scientists must study on how to bring about a smooth exodus of peoples from China. So if you’re a fresh high school graduate, then you can surely take on a college degree that is geared towards that direction.

Just yesterday, everybody in the financial world from the Middle East to Asia, from Europe to South America, became panicky as Asian markets Hang Seng, Australian, Singapore Straits Times, Nikkei and Philippine Stock Exchange as well as the Thai and South Korean markets tumbled one after another. Of course, people are protecting their stocks so we can’t blame them for auctioning everything off. But if you are a fresh high school graduate and you want to help in putting back the economy to its right track and prevent a recession in the United States, then you can certainly take a degree in economics at Georgetown or at any reputable university.

If you are not that rich to pay for your own tuition, then be good even if you are still in high school so you can become a Georgetown economics graduate like Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo or Bill Clinton. They’re both Georgetown economics graduate. As early as high school, shine in economics subjects. Then participate in college fairs when you are already in your senior year in high school. In college fairs, college admissions staff will come to your school and evaluate prospective enrollees in their college right after graduation. It is also at this point that they will be receiving college application essays so if you have an ingenious plan to save the United States economy from recession, then that is really swell for the Georgetown admissions staff to read and they will surely be impressed.

We are mainstream people. But let us not also forget our brethren who are indigenous peoples and who surely must have a say in our society including the field of education. They must be accommodated. In the United States for example, the Native Americans are the target of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002. The federal government is pouring in millions of dollars to get Native American youngsters educated in English and include them into mainstream society. There are similar efforts across the world in such societies as the Aztecs in Mexico, the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, the Mayas in Guatemala, the Maoris of New Zealand, the tribes in Hawaii and so many others. We should remember that these peoples are survivalists and they definitely deserve a place in mainstream education so they can develop their own society at their level.