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What is the message of the college admissions process? Perhaps we should tech young people that it is better to be a chameleon than to be true to oneself. Learn to size up what a particular situation calls for and adjust your colors accordingly. My personal opinion is that it is ultimately fragmenting and self-defeating. How does a 17 year-old who succeeds by being a changeling ever learn who she is? As long as universities encourage this behavior they are not breeding great thinkers or healthy people...
...trying to figure out how to write about this experience we are all having together," he said in one posting. "In many different traditions, to be alive is to immerse oneself intensely and directly in the world. This is a new part of the human world, a brand-new social construction made up mainly of people talking to one another through keyboards and screens. Immersing myself in it even more so than I already have is part of being alive for me . and part of dying...
...keeping with an African-American literary tradition of "writing oneself into being," Souljah articulates her individual experience in opposition to and as part of a collective Black experience. Branded by the culture of distrust and mental devastation of the projects, Souljah takes us with her to an integrated suburb, on to college, into public service, and to the eventual production of her album, 360 Degrees of Power...
...Multilateral organizations can be paralyzing...and very often letting oneself be paralyzed by multilateral organizations can be worse than taking unilateral action," Hoffman said...
...away valuable classroom time reading the writing of great minds such as Milton and Joyce. I agree that turning outward towards the world, learning the ideas bestowed unto us by the Great Minds, is of utmost important. But turning outward does not mean the repression of turning inward to oneself...