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As a kid, I was always around animals and I always enjoyed it. After my senior year of high school, we started renting this farm. Then I went away to Rhode Island School of Design to become an architect. After about two years and a half, I found that was not quite what I wanted to do. I felt I wanted to be an architect and have a hobby farm. But why not just have a farm and make it my career?

It’s an exciting business. I think a lot of people don’t realize what’s involved with dairy farming (奶牛业). We took some trips to some progressive farms out in New York when we first started. And it really changed my attitude of what you can do. You can be a successful businessperson with a lot of challenges. And those challenges are part of what makes it very exciting — it’s not just milking cows. There’s nutrition and finances and a lot of big day-to-day decisions.

Well, land is the biggest obstacle. Securing enough land is important. We don’t just need the land for the animals; we also need it to distribute the manure from the cows. And there’s a real balance, a real recycling. You take the feed; you give it to the cows, and the cows give you milk, but they also give you a lot of manure. And the best thing to do is putting it back on the land. You need 2 acres per cow basically, a cow and its calf.

The land that we rent is beautiful and the land that we own is beautiful. If you get half a mile off the road and looking back at scenery across the valley, it’s impressive. You get the rows of grass and the cows in the distance.

When I was small, my mother and I would walk to our local library in Franklin Square. As we didn’t always have access to a reliable car, walking hand in hand was the most convenient way to get anywhere. It was at story time for children that both my mother and I made lasting friendships.

Today, I am fortunate to live around the corner from the Gold Coast Public Library in Glen Head and a short walk to the Sea Cliff Children’s Library. My 18-month-old son, Colin, and I find ourselves in Sea Cliff several times a week, meeting and making friends. Well, that is what many people don’t understand — a library is more than books; it’s a community.

Sure, the library in Franklin Square was the place where I was introduced to Judy Blume novels. But it was also the place where I got my first e-mail address in 1997. At the library, friends and I learned how to research colleges and search for scholarships on the Internet. The library was the place where we sometimes giggled (咯咯地笑) too loudly, and where the librarians knew us by name. Their knowing our names wasn’t a bad thing. When I came home from my first term at Binghamton University, Mary LaRosa, the librarian at the Franklin Square library offered me my first teaching job.

I now teach reading at Nassau Community College. My students are often amazed that they can check out books via their smartphones and virtually visit a variety of Long Island libraries. The app used by Nassau and Suffolk county public libraries, as well as the college library, makes their homework easier by helping them find resources. Even though they can’t always easily visit their local libraries, the library is always with them.

Ding Ning has won many awards during her table tennis career, including an Olympic gold medal in women’s table tennis singles. 1． She has started a new chapter as a graduate student at the Department of Physical Education at Peking University.

Used to be a table tennis specialist, Ding now wants to be an all-rounder. To make that happen, Ding plans to broaden her studies and talk to like-minded people from different backgrounds. 2．

The world champion seems a little nervous when speaking about her future academic life because she considers it a challenge. “It’s as if you’d grown up studying and were suddenly asked to play table tennis. 3． even if you may have courage and enthusiasm and/vice versa”, she said.

This sudden change in her life and the accompanying uncertainties are only part of her challenge — her reputation (名声) is another. 4． It gets her more help and support on the one hand, but attracts attention and higher expectations on the other.

She is not one to step back from adversity (逆境) and has often said that it is important to have a brave heart. As she faces new challenges on her academic path, she believes there are always more solutions than problems. She hopes that in the future, she can teach teenagers about healthy exercise. 5． She also hopes that her choice to go back to college will inspire younger athletes to explore other possibilities after retirement and get greater opportunities.