Great view from the coast of Algeria!
The name’s Mahdi, Haroune Mahdi, graduated in 2015 from Dublin Coffman High School, located in Ohio, as the first person of my family to graduate from a high school in the United States and transition into higher education. I suppose this is where I would explain my hopes and dreams in hopes that my dreams would actually come true but this is not how I conduct business. That being said, I am a doer, and perhaps a little bit of a dreamer, too. I wish for what any decent human being wishes for, the world to become a better place, new technologies, new cultures, new horizons, new, new, new. However, these wishes are but mere whispers in the wind; the yearning of mankind for pushing the boundaries of the known into the unknown would go unnoticed if not for the doers. If this philosophy is adopted by many more people, the world would be a different place, more politically, economically, and socially stable not to mention technologically. Unfortunately, it is quite the challenge to encompass your life style with such a practice and even I have trouble incorporating it to my thinking in every situation. Additionally, one of my goals is to visit as many countries with as many different cultures as possible before I am unable to do so. Alas, I have been overseas many times but it is to visit my country of origin, Algeria, and a countless number of opportunities have presented themselves to explore the countries in which my connecting flights land but I have never seized the moment; this is one of the main reasons I had chosen the International Affairs scholars program, to explore the world and be a doer instead of just a dreamer.