BaronSamediSame dude as yesterday.The AlamoRegistered Userregular
See, I never associated Thoreau, Emerson and King with philosophy. I am dumb, or at least poorly schooled. So suffragists, and guys like Rawls, and so on as well I assume? (Stupid lit class teaching this as literature and not philosophy)
"Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit, and your shit is stuff?"--George Carlin
caught like 10 minutes of it in the hotel before region theater competition and it was fantastic
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I think I'll try to find it at the local hastings this week to rent
I would hope and think they have it
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
Yep.
Its a pretty big sphere of current day philosophy, which is why I try to limit it in scope to philosophers discussing aspects of America (as opposed to simply being American).
But seriously, philosophy on America's struggles on the frontier is so fucking good.
So I'm writing the rough draft of this application essay, and it occurs to me: not sure where to go with this. This is my first paragraph:
I consider myself fortunate to have discovered my passion at an early age; I graduated high school with a sense of purpose but no sense of direction. 4 years passed, however, and something happened; I rediscovered plants. The horticultural world has always been in my background, surrounding so much of what I did growing up. As kids me and my friends would pluck, much to our mother's chagrin, the giant Birds of Paradise that grew in their yards, and adorn the playhouse with them. Covered in an accent of birch boughs and bamboo clippings, the playhouse became an Amazon outpost for us to get lost within our imaginations. My grandmother was also always one to encourage my agricultural side; through her I learned the value of saving seeds, and what plants repelled which insects, and that in her small apartment, no garden was too small. All of this came flooding back to me when I started working in a local nursery, and as the racks of plants came in daily, an expanse of foreign names and data was opened up to me, and I quickly found myself lost in it. All of this pertains to where I stand today; through all the specimens I have planted, the discoveries I've found on the trail, and anytime I find that eliciting joy through new literature, I desire more. The next step, the obvious step for me, is to pursue this through a higher education.
I think (1) I might be rambling just a bit, and (2) maybe I need to get to my point, the last paragraph, quicker, and brace it up with details in the second paragraphs. Also, I tried looking up examples of application essays online, and they don't even seem to be putting forth an argument that 'yes you should accept me'. One was just, well, fiction, with 'aren't I awesome' practically written in the end. Help.
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Someone finish this Sociology paper for me. Just have two more paragraphs. One that is an examination of present-day circumstances involving our sample group, the latter a paragraph that cites two moments from our assigned materials that back up points made in my paper.
Honestly I could do this in <20 minutes but I'm just going to keep torturing myself over it.
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Baroque And RollEvery spark of friendship and loveWill die without a homeRegistered Userregular
So I'm writing the rough draft of this application essay, and it occurs to me: not sure where to go with this. This is my first paragraph:
I consider myself fortunate to have discovered my passion at an early age; I graduated high school with a sense of purpose but no sense of direction. 4 years passed, however, and something happened; I rediscovered plants. The horticultural world has always been in my background, surrounding so much of what I did growing up. As kids me and my friends would pluck, much to our mother's chagrin, the giant Birds of Paradise that grew in their yards, and adorn the playhouse with them. Covered in an accent of birch boughs and bamboo clippings, the playhouse became an Amazon outpost for us to get lost within our imaginations. My grandmother was also always one to encourage my agricultural side; through her I learned the value of saving seeds, and what plants repelled which insects, and that in her small apartment, no garden was too small. All of this came flooding back to me when I started working in a local nursery, and as the racks of plants came in daily, an expanse of foreign names and data was opened up to me, and I quickly found myself lost in it. All of this pertains to where I stand today; through all the specimens I have planted, the discoveries I've found on the trail, and anytime I find that eliciting joy through new literature, I desire more. The next step, the obvious step for me, is to pursue this through a higher education.
I think (1) I might be rambling just a bit, and (2) maybe I need to get to my point, the last paragraph, quicker, and brace it up with details in the second paragraphs. Also, I tried looking up examples of application essays online, and they don't even seem to be putting forth an argument that 'yes you should accept me'. One was just, well, fiction, with 'aren't I awesome' practically written in the end. Help.
this strikes me as a good second paragraph. the first paragraph for something like an application essay should be a lot clearer with the essentials (i am a person who wants to go to your school because of reasons). it doesn't necessarily have to be super interesting; it has to give the person reading your essay the broad strokes, which you can then elucidate on in the body of the essay.
there isn't like a set "this is the perfect application essay." clearly you're passionate about the subject and that comes through in the writing, and i think that is what makes whatever train of thought you're starting here a good one.
I ask this genuinely: What is American Philosophy? Is it all religious/free market stuff?
I'm a little ashamed that these are the first things that came to mind
The first people that came to mind were Rand and Edwards...So unfortunately, yeah. I was educated in Texas, and it hasn't been a bad education, but I'm not going to say the way everything was framed was correct. After thinking on it longer, and after Zonugal's posts more real philosophy/ers came to mind, (pragmatism and naturalism and a lot of the stuff of the Founding Fathers (Common Sense)) but I'm not sure that I have ever thought of America as a source for philosophy.
I'm willing to admit that the fault for that is all on me.
"Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit, and your shit is stuff?"--George Carlin
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I have to decide which two schools to send my merit scholar reccomendations to, dunno why I can only choose two though.
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143999Tellin' yanot askin' ya, not pleadin' with yaRegistered Userregular
Last week: HEY GUYS EVERYBODY GET YOUR WORK IN EARLY SO I CAN HAVE YOUR FINAL GRADES READY BEFORE I RUN OFF TO AMSTERDAM OR SOMETHING HUSTLE HUSTLE HUSTLE
This week: ::crickets::
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I have to decide which two schools to send my merit scholar reccomendations (sic - WHO'S THE MERIT SCHOLAR NOW?) to, dunno why I can only choose two though.
Probably because if everybody who got it sent recommendations to every school they wanted, then A) there would be a lot more recommendations to process, and the brand might be devalued.
there is a weird sort of strategy to it though, like sending it to a college that's not your first pick because it's more exclusive than your first choice, stuff like that
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The idea is that it makes you feel special because you have NMS recommendations to send, it makes the schools feel special because you chose them for your limited supply of recommendations, and it makes the NMS people feel special because they're the puppetmasters behind the whole process and their brand is seen as prestigious and exclusive.
Mostly the first and third ones, though. If you want to make a school actually feel special, you have to endow a chair or something.
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FandyienBut Otto, what about us? Registered Userregular
ugh i've had six cups of coffee and 12 ozs of red bull and four cigarettes this morning while frantically trying to cram more for philosophy
i'm less enraged then i was yesterday because i've been penetrating the work fairly effectively
sitting here looking at the essay questions that are gon be on the test, though, i'm all "oh fuck"
@zonugal dogg I couldn't find this anywhere in my textbook/brain, what are Kierkegaards three forms of despair
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Well, looks like I'll be in this thread now; officially going back to school for an MBA in Sept. Going to be a bit weird quitting the workforce after 4 years, but far as I can tell it's the only way to get out of the 40-60 salary range before I hit 40. Plus, sales is kind of boring after a while.
Still, when I think of MBAs, I just think of this and this.
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this particular philosophy book has tons of comics in it, and looking at my brothers old books, that isn't an uncommon thing
anyway took my exam, i think i did pretty good but i felt that way last time and got a 73 or something. i got a 93 on my big paper in there, though, so hopefully i get can like an ~80 on this one and average out to a low B, which would actually be a big accomplishment for my pathetic ass
positive i got an A in the other class but i always get As in history classes because they're easy
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
I don't really like philosophy. Probably because I've got it All Figured Out, already. Also, because it seems to be squeezing out my field, at least at my school.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
Two As so far. One is confirmed, the other is all but. Third class is an almost definite B, with a very small chance of an A and an even smaller chance of a C. Fourth class is probably a B, but a small chance of pulling out an A, depending on how she grades both my essay and the final exam.
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With American philosophy following.
Nah...
Its philosophy focused on the nature of America as written by Americans.
Some of it is about the rugged, frontier aspect early in America (this happens to by favorite). Other parts are on race relations and slavery.
Writers like Emerson, Thoreau, MLK Jr. and Cornel West fall into the sphere of American philosophy.
Yes Yes Yes Yes
I think I'll try to find it at the local hastings this week to rent
I would hope and think they have it
Its a pretty big sphere of current day philosophy, which is why I try to limit it in scope to philosophers discussing aspects of America (as opposed to simply being American).
But seriously, philosophy on America's struggles on the frontier is so fucking good.
I think (1) I might be rambling just a bit, and (2) maybe I need to get to my point, the last paragraph, quicker, and brace it up with details in the second paragraphs. Also, I tried looking up examples of application essays online, and they don't even seem to be putting forth an argument that 'yes you should accept me'. One was just, well, fiction, with 'aren't I awesome' practically written in the end. Help.
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this sounds like it isn't philosophy, except insofar as everything is philosophy
what it sounds like is history and cultural studies
Ta-Da!!!
But because you can't limit philosophy....
well
i mean, words don't just mean what you want them to mean
technically i'm studying physics because on some level everything is physics
but i don't go around telling people that my favourite kind of physics is literary physics and it's the physics of how books work on the imagination
Honestly I could do this in <20 minutes but I'm just going to keep torturing myself over it.
Metaphysics, dawg.
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So fucking good!
this strikes me as a good second paragraph. the first paragraph for something like an application essay should be a lot clearer with the essentials (i am a person who wants to go to your school because of reasons). it doesn't necessarily have to be super interesting; it has to give the person reading your essay the broad strokes, which you can then elucidate on in the body of the essay.
there isn't like a set "this is the perfect application essay." clearly you're passionate about the subject and that comes through in the writing, and i think that is what makes whatever train of thought you're starting here a good one.
my entire goddamn life
I'm a little ashamed that these are the first things that came to mind
The first people that came to mind were Rand and Edwards...So unfortunately, yeah. I was educated in Texas, and it hasn't been a bad education, but I'm not going to say the way everything was framed was correct. After thinking on it longer, and after Zonugal's posts more real philosophy/ers came to mind, (pragmatism and naturalism and a lot of the stuff of the Founding Fathers (Common Sense)) but I'm not sure that I have ever thought of America as a source for philosophy.
I'm willing to admit that the fault for that is all on me.
This week: ::crickets::
Probably because if everybody who got it sent recommendations to every school they wanted, then A) there would be a lot more recommendations to process, and
there is a weird sort of strategy to it though, like sending it to a college that's not your first pick because it's more exclusive than your first choice, stuff like that
Mostly the first and third ones, though. If you want to make a school actually feel special, you have to endow a chair or something.
i'm less enraged then i was yesterday because i've been penetrating the work fairly effectively
sitting here looking at the essay questions that are gon be on the test, though, i'm all "oh fuck"
@zonugal dogg I couldn't find this anywhere in my textbook/brain, what are Kierkegaards three forms of despair
Still, when I think of MBAs, I just think of this and this.
all my books got pictures
8-)
anyway took my exam, i think i did pretty good but i felt that way last time and got a 73 or something. i got a 93 on my big paper in there, though, so hopefully i get can like an ~80 on this one and average out to a low B, which would actually be a big accomplishment for my pathetic ass
positive i got an A in the other class but i always get As in history classes because they're easy
1. Being unconscious in despair of having a self.
2. Not wanting in despair of one's self.
3. Wanting in despair to be one's self.
my books have the best pics
Man I had everything figured out by the time I turned 14.
I mean that I'm pretty set in my own way of thinking. I realize that's my flaw.
But now that I think about it, my main problem with philosophy is that it seems to train people to miss the forest for the trees.