Forced Papers are BS
I'm in the process of writing a bullshit paper for one of my teaching classes. The instructions say "As an opening paragraph, make a statement about who you are today as a person and learner."
What do you think...does this fit me, or did I totally bullshit? Just bullshit a little? I'm interested to see what you think...
"Although most who know me well would quickly say that I’m a natural leader willing to jump at anything new or extraordinary, I have a very difficult time seeing myself in such a light. More than a few of my friends have told me that they view me as more of a brother than a friend, and these people are still in my life after several years (which, at such a young age, it seems quite out of the ordinary to have a large number of longstanding relationships). To them, I’m the one in the group who they can “trust with anything” and “has all the answers.” Despite my distaste of such opinions toward me, even some of my family members call me “our Buddha.” It’s true, I suppose, that I was (as one long-gone comrade told me) greatly raised by the little black scribbles of dead people. I’ve always had a thirst for knowledge and the mechanics of things, but I feel that the pursuit of such vertical wisdom in so many areas is what has led me to be more introverted and hesitant than anyone will give me credit for being. I’m not the haphazard philosopher simply taking an educated guess about the depth of the water before I dive in as some might think. However, I also do not, in the words of Lao Tzu, put mud into a puddle of water to give it the illusion of depth. I learn by watching and listening more than I learn by doing, and it has been this lifelong practice of ‘exist and know’ that has molded me into the fluid person that I presently am. Concerning knowledge, it was long ago said: “Hear and forget. See and understand. Do and remember.” This shoe fits me very well, although my own self-fashioned ways are more along the lines of “Hear and remember, see and comprehend, do and yearn for more.”
What do you think...does this fit me, or did I totally bullshit? Just bullshit a little? I'm interested to see what you think...
"Although most who know me well would quickly say that I’m a natural leader willing to jump at anything new or extraordinary, I have a very difficult time seeing myself in such a light. More than a few of my friends have told me that they view me as more of a brother than a friend, and these people are still in my life after several years (which, at such a young age, it seems quite out of the ordinary to have a large number of longstanding relationships). To them, I’m the one in the group who they can “trust with anything” and “has all the answers.” Despite my distaste of such opinions toward me, even some of my family members call me “our Buddha.” It’s true, I suppose, that I was (as one long-gone comrade told me) greatly raised by the little black scribbles of dead people. I’ve always had a thirst for knowledge and the mechanics of things, but I feel that the pursuit of such vertical wisdom in so many areas is what has led me to be more introverted and hesitant than anyone will give me credit for being. I’m not the haphazard philosopher simply taking an educated guess about the depth of the water before I dive in as some might think. However, I also do not, in the words of Lao Tzu, put mud into a puddle of water to give it the illusion of depth. I learn by watching and listening more than I learn by doing, and it has been this lifelong practice of ‘exist and know’ that has molded me into the fluid person that I presently am. Concerning knowledge, it was long ago said: “Hear and forget. See and understand. Do and remember.” This shoe fits me very well, although my own self-fashioned ways are more along the lines of “Hear and remember, see and comprehend, do and yearn for more.”
posted by red at 20:29
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