For many years I have been hearing how life-changing and transcendent the Bede's Leadership Course was to students willing to take it. My belief was that these rumors were widely exaggerated - a two-day course, less than forty-eight hours of mind-boggling and brainstorming to make a leader out of your average adolescent. What do you know, it works big time.

The course is constructed like no other class young students have probably ever attended. Designed to impress and instill curiosity, you are tossed into a world of doubt and reevaluation. None of the thoughts stirred within will leave man or woman untouched. This is a place where scars are forged and leaders are born literally.

The purpose of the course is not as much as making leaders of people, but rather, one's own leader. You are faced against the most realistic of real-world scenarios, and you suddenly realize how clueless you are, how desperately you need to fill the voids of thought.