Mercedes SL-500 Convertible
College:                Ohio University, Athens, OH Major:                  Economics
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	In short, I'm a dreamer.  I never limit myself.  If there's something I want, there's always a way to attain it.  The trick to being happy is never limiting yourself.  Never telling yourself that you're not able to do something.  Instead, I try it, figure out what exactly I have to do in order to make it happen.  The people who have become extremely successful with their lives (without having their success passed down from their family) did nothing more than believe in themselves.  They followed their hearts, their souls and took a chance: a gamble or investment if you will in themselves.  What's important in life is compassion.  Without it, what are we?  It's hard for me at times to rationalize the thought process of some people.  I'm talking about the people who eat up what corporate America has provided for us.  In short, that's most of us.  Take Starbucks for instance.  They started small and hit gold shortly after.  That's great, and I'm sure the upper management and early shareholders are living very well.  However, they have recently opened a store in Vienna, Austria.  In addition to their first, they plan on opening another "NINE" in the country?  Vienna has been known for great coffee, it's something that in a way defines Austria as well.  So why would they allow this now international company to move in and sell their products there (just like every other metropolis worldwide)?  Money!  I'll be the first to say I love it: the smell, the way I feel when I have it and the way I feel when I spend it.  So in a way, I'll never have enough.  Never having enough is what corporate America is all about.  Every quarter or fiscal year they strive for increased profits.  Surely that's understandable, because if they'd stay the same (with population growth and inflation) they'd actually be losing money.  Wouldn't it be better if we could be happy at a decent rate of success, constantly improving the accuracy of our work and feel secure?  That way, the people who made Austria known for great coffee (who have since perished) wouldn't have worked for nothing.  This is just one example of corporate America (or the "Corporate World") moving in on "culture, history, and centuries of heritage."  So when does it end?  When Sam Walton opens another store in Bali, the Sahara Desert or beside the Great Wall in China?  When no matter where you go, you know that you have to search for "old world culture" because all that surrounds you is just another duplication of something somewhere else in another city offering the exact same things at similar prices.