Thursday, October 22, 2009

Learning College

  • Never forget that you have a humongous heart, which is really cheesy and most people don't pay attention to most of the time, but in the end it always makes a big difference.

  • Bounce ideas off of people. Only you think you're brilliant, but most people want to help you be truly brilliant. Except for Sceth; he just wants to do math.
  • Have a personal relationship with the texts.
  • In presentations, have conversations with your audience. Be an actress, even though you hate the idea.
  • Stay up till 3am and wake at 8:30am on the same day because you love philosophy. Don't forget to smile about it.
  • Read slowly and carefully. Break down it's complicated protein structures to get to the core principles, with which you use to build your th0ughts.
  • Write essays that give people food for thought. Impress her; she wants to enjoy a delicious paper of your thoughts. Forget whatever damn crap the author wrote. Even though you should work that into your paper somehow.
  • Take all criticism with great seriousness, perhaps even with hunger.
  • You must see yourself in different lenses in order to grow yourself into the person you choose to be. Don't simply let opportune events shape you. Shape yourself.

  • Attack all subject matters with great seriousness. You'll only benefit from having striven to write as an English/philosophy major would, despite your captivation with science. Strive to do the same for math.

  • Talk. Never before have you ever had such a receptive audience, one who's not afraid to delve into the depths of the human soul and into the trivialities of life. Behind every face there is an individual that you have a personal interest in wanting to meet.
  • Work harder than your peers, even when you're not as bright. In fact, do so because you're not as bright. Prove to them through sheer stubbornness that you are as good, perhaps sometimes better.

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