So take these lessons, learn from the past, and keep that promotion in your sights.

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Put that in your sights.

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Use words and images in your presentation and communication that evoke sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and tactile feelings.

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Turn off your processing and just soak in the sights, sounds, and scents of the environment.

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But the most important ingredient is you: students who raised your sights, who aimed high, who invested yourselves in your own success.

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Sights you can expect to gawk at in awe on your voyage include a variety of points on the Antarctic Peninsula, the South Shetland Islands, a whole mess of seals, four different types of penguins and a starkly beautiful panorama of unforgiving rock, ice, and snow.

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