Pursuing a different major is one thing, bringing out your strengths and capabilities to complete the necessary work and get the degree is another.
Having already lived through a major challenge as a young teenager, she knew the best thing to do was to avoid playing the victim, and to instead focus her efforts on what she could do today and tomorrow.
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Major League Soccer is a great thing for U.S. Soccer, we know.
Every few months some consulting firm trying to (literally) scare up some business will come out with a report about how Bluetooth or WiFi or some other thing is vulnerable to hackers and is a major security risk.
For one thing, this is a major trend in the rest of the industry, from PC down to mobile.
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By our tool-weilding friend's reckoning, you'll be lucky not to sever a major cable artery just by opening the thing.
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And in a country where the differences between the two major parties are sometimes hard to find, that can only be a good thing for democracy.
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Once upon a time, it was considered a good thing by all when a Democratic President and Congressional Republicans reached a compromise agreement on major issues like taxes and aiding the unemployed.
The only thing missing in his comeback is a major victory, his first since the U.S. Open in 2008.
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If life is a beach for Philippoussis now, it wasn't towards the end of his career when injury blighted his final attempts to snare the one thing his resume lacked -- a major title.
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And it is the only thing that will let you get through a major media crisis with your reputation, dignity and stock price intact.
And regardless of which of the many scenarios materialize after Karzai's current (and final) presidential term ends, one thing is clear: he will remain a major power broker in Afghanistan.
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One thing is certain: The euro cannot survive without a major change in the governance structure of the euro zone.
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Either way, perhaps the most interesting thing about the hire is that RIM just underwent a major renovation of its brand image around the time of the Bold and Storm releases -- and BlackBerry users tend to love the way their devices generally operate (Storm notably excepted), so any jarring change to the experience risks alienating huge swaths of the base.
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Simulating a major fire on an oil rig for training purposes is not an easy thing to do.
Groceries are one thing but in retirement, health care costs are a more major concern since we need more care for several reasons.
The on-going transformation in microfinance means grants and subsidies are a thing of the past and commercial sources of funding will continue to be the major source of funding.
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"The good thing is it's nothing major, nothing where I'm missing a whole season, " Teixeira said.
So while many talking heads are looking for the next big big thing from Apple, the next major addition could be something that makes for a far more secure device be it in the expected iPhone 5s, the eventual iPhone 6 and next iPad whatever.
One thing Blitzer did acknowledge is that the high prices of Apple and Google shares are a major hurdle to their inclusion.
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Looking back from 2040, the second thing people will see is that India was the first developing country to embrace on a major scale the knowledge economy.
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Having the chief law enforcement official of a major American city openly accuse his own state government of that sort of malfeasance is not the sort of thing that happens every day.
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Stand in a line of people in just about any major metropolitan area in the world and you'll see the same thing: slouched shoulders and down-turned faces staring glumly at smartphone screens.
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