Universidad Europea de Madrid

Thought for the day

What are you doing now?

What will you be doing 5 years from now? 10 or 20 years from now?

Will you be happy?
Will you have a great job?
Will you have your own business?
Will you be an expert in your field?
Will you have volunteered to help others?
Will you have had a lot of work experience?
Will you have traveled abroad, seen the world?
Will you be living in another country? Speaking English?
Will you be asking your children some of these same questions?

Are you working toward your goals?

Imagine yourself at 27, 37,47, 57, 67.....

Who would you see in the mirror?
Is that the person you want to be?

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FUN TEST---Product Recognition

We are all influenced by advertising. Many of us look for the name-brands and buy the products we see advertised everywhere. You might recognize a logo, a slogan, a tune that is played on TV or the radio or on internet.

Try this FUN TEST about PRODUCT RECOGNITION.

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What are your plans for the future?

What are you doing today?
What are your plans for TOMORROW?

Are you learning the SKILLS you'll need to get where you want to go?

Right now you're a student:Do you know how to type? FAST? With all 10 fingers?
Do you know how to use several computer programs?
Can you learn a new one quickly?
Are you REALLY studying or just having fun.

Next year or the year after or three years from now you'll graduate. Then you get the big reality check. What are you going to do with the rest of your life?

You want to travel around Europe
Can you speak English, French, German, Swedish, Italian......?
Have you saved your money? Can you pay for your inter-rail pass, your petrol, your student hostals, camp grounds or 5 star hotels?

The following year you want to do a masters or teach in the US.You MUST type well and you MUST speak English well.
Have you been studying for the TOEFL exam? It's HARD!

Don't just dream about the future. You have to make an effort now.
We spend a lot of time dreaming . Are any of your dreams coming true?

Wendy

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Are you working too hard?

Are you always busy? Too busy?
Are you overworked and underpaid?
Do you have time to relax? Relax????? What's that?Maybe you're a graduate student who is working all day and studying all weekend.

Maybe you're the head of a department, trying to squeeze even more work out of your staff.

You may be trying to finish your PhD while raising a family.

You could be a 3rd-year dentistry student who's worried about exams.

Or you might be a 5th-year engineering student working on your final project.

WHOEVER YOU ARE, YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO'S BUSY! Maybe you're just starting--a transfer student who's a bit overwhelmed.

Perhaps you're in Marketing, trying to get the posters ready on time.

Perhaps you plan events and coordinate activities.

You might be a secretary with too many bosses.

Or you could be in the legal department with meeting after meeting.

Maybe you're a dean or vice-rector with many decisions to make.

You could be in admissions, the first one students meet at the UEM.

Maybe you're one of the computer experts or a member of the technical staff?

You could be a concierge.

Or perhaps you are on the cleaning staff or the gardening crews?

You could be working and studying and learning English too !

You might even be writing a blog, creating activities, planning conferences, teaching classes, registering students, counseling students and listening to "I have a problem" from students a dozen times a day!

EVERYBODY IS WORKING HARD. EVERYBODY IS BUSY.
And what would life be like at the UEM if we weren't

Would we still have a beautiful clean campus? Would people be smiling?

No, BAD IDEA ! NOTHING WOULD WORK! (no funcionaría nada)
There would be NO COFFEE in the morning and NO CLEAN BUILDINGS !

EVERYONE IS BUSY. EVERYONE IS WORKING HARD.YOU are definitely NOT the only one.

Just look at the cafeteria staff at 11:30 . Now THAT'S BUSY !
Look at the UEM LAB at the same time. Now THAT'S BUSY too !

WORK HARD, but DON'T FORGET TO SMELL THE FLOWERS !

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A quiz for smart people

This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.

Don't cheat! Write down your answers. Then scroll down and see just how smart you are.

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1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4.. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S..'

Yes, only 9 questions, not 10. Can you think of a 10th question for this quiz? Send it in with your comments. Don't forget to include the answer.

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THE ANSWERS:

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Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . . Boxing

2. North American landmark constantly moving backward . Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons . . Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside .. . Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Three English words beginning with dw Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . . Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S' Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Which ones did you get right????

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