Students can act on their intellectual interests on their own or in organized programs. Here are some suggestions:
• Submit your writing (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) to a
newspaper’s editorial section, or a writing contest, or Web magazine.
• Read anything and everything you can find on a subject or person
of interest.
• Do a special research or science project under the supervision of an
expert or teacher in the field.
• Put together a special project in one of the arts (art, music, dance, theater).
• Learn about a special interest or learn a language by traveling to a
foreign country, working in a special place (such as a farm, cheese factory, outward bound camp), a volunteer setting, in which you think
you might like to work (law firm, political office, veterinary hospital).
• Because you have exhausted your school’s offerings in a particular
subject, organize a new, advanced class with the help of a teacher.
