I feel like I am galloping towards the end of this semester. I can't wait for this semester to end. I had five different classes and now I feel like a I need a break. But whatever, I always digress. What did doing this paper teach me... Well, I feel like I out all my creative juices into writing my UC personal statement. I like what I wrote. So my research paper is not as good as I would like it to be. Wish me good luck!
This paper taught me a couple of things. We often overlook sources of information that could help us. As I was reading my groups essay, I kept saying, Oh this source could have helped or man I wish I would have thought of that. I remember my final for the Philosophy of religion class I had to do. We had to sit in a semi-secluded area for eight hours if possible and just wait for the eight hours to end. On the last day of class we had to report what we discovered. A lot of people lied. I actually did it. I remember sitting in this bush for eight hours and had flocks of people seem blind to my presence. I discovered we ignore what is around us and that is really frightening. I feel that I ignored a lot of good information in my paper. I probably going to rewrite a lot of it.
But something else I did learn was how reality is such a fickle thing. However I see the world is how I perceive my reality. I am still contemplating on whether that means that everyone else's reality is just a illusion if compared to my reality. Does reality even exist? Is this like the matrix, where we have a reality imposed on? Or Is there nothing like Buddha said? I am still working on this thought. I just wanted to write a little on this concept.
I have also changed my view on what a hero is. I will admit, I am a bit of an anime freak. There is one anime that I absolutely love and its called Naruto. The thing about this character, Naruto, is that he is always underestimated. Nobody thinks he has any power. They think him and foolish. But he alway beats the bad guy because he never gives up and he doesn't care about the established rules. Nafisi and her students remind me of this. They never gave up loving literature even though their world thought it as a foolish and dangerous venture since it brought in western culture. My definition of what hero used to be was someone who always kicked the bad guy's ass. Now I realize that a hero is someone who fights for what they love and have the guts not to give up even when pursuing their goal is dangerous. This is my new definition of a hero. I am not done with my paper so, I have much more to learn.
Good luck for your University of California applications! I had mine all lined up for a month and decided the week before the deadline that I should get started on the two personal statements. I have never had success with personal statements and procrastinated. I thankfully met the deadline by four days. No server crashes for me! For my personal statements, I took all that I learned from this class and past failures. I think I may have cracked the personal statement code. Of course there are other things that are apart of the University of California application, but the personal statement can be a real deal breaker. I plan on chopping them up and crafting the perfect personal statement for scholarships and other university applications. Good thing those are due next year. Whew.
ReplyDeleteI can see what you mean with overlooking sources. Everyone in my group (five people total) wrote about The Great Gatsby and Reading Lolita in Tehran. They must have obtained better insight on improving their papers. Also, they could share sources too. Unfortunately for me, I chose option 2. My paper is about women’s civil rights and sexual segregation in Iran. I could not take much from The Great Gatsby. I am tempted, however, to flick through Reading Lolita in Tehran and finding quotes that apply to my paper.
Well, good luck with finals!
Thanks for all your comments and your feedback in the group! I wish you well in your future classes.
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