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"a case of déjŕ vu" - An Intellectually Engaging Idea


brookelanae 7 / 15  
Dec 29, 2010   #1
Prompt: Stanford students are widely known to possess a sense of intellectual vitality. Tell us about an idea or an experience you have had that you find intellectually engaging.

Every now and then, there is an occurrence that forces me to question something which was, hitherto this, nothing but ordinary. I was sitting in English class one day when something exceedingly commonplace happened. It was an eerie feeling, the kind that is so terrible it makes me want to crawl out of my skin, yet it somehow is simultaneously intriguing. It was a case of déjŕ vu.

As an individual who is fairly critical towards anything deemed paranormal, I decided that this phenomenon, like all, must have a scientific explanation behind it. Upon a few moments of contemplation, I developed my own theory as to what the mysterious workings of déjŕ vu might entail. Perhaps the cause is a sudden extreme increase in the speed that the mind processes the body's senses. If there is usually a delay, however small, between the instant that something happens and when the brain actually realizes that it happens, then this bizarre experience could be nothing other than the lack of this delay. Furthermore, since the human body is accustomed to this delay, if it was to suddenly disappear or even be radically shortened, it might induce the feeling that an event has happened in the past.

When I got home, I used the Internet to research my theory, and I discovered that the cause behind déjŕ vu is yet to be discovered. I found this to be somewhat enthralling; perhaps I will be the first expose the secrets behind déjŕ vu in my psychological studies.
abatado /  
Dec 29, 2010   #2
Furthermore, since - as my AP Lit teacher says, you don't need two prepositions... maybe I am being too paranoid, but if I were you, I would just go with "since" and take out "furthermore"- it makes the sentence sound a little wordy.

the human body is accustomed to this delay, if it was to suddenly disappear or even be radically shortened , - I would flip flop the phrases as disappearing is more dramatic than shortening.

This is an interesting essay that I think the AdCom can relate to. Good luck to you and please read my BU essays - I think they need all the revisions they can get!!!
OP brookelanae 7 / 15  
Dec 30, 2010   #3
Haha gotta love AP teachers. Mine's made me pay a lot more attention to grammar as well. Thank you.
Anonymoussenior 17 / 133  
Dec 30, 2010   #4
nothing more than the lack

first to expose the secrets behind déjŕ vu in my psychological studies

Thanks for reading my essays
EF_Kevin 8 / 13,321 129  
Jan 18, 2011   #5
...to question something which was, hitherto this, nothing but ordinary. No! No, no! You are forbidden from using hitherto in any of your written or spoken communications from this point onward. I mean it! :-)

That was such a cool sentence before you ruined it with unnecessary fanciness. Only use fancy language in situations where spectacular feats of language are necessary. That is the golden rule of writing. Well, I actually just made it up, but it is important!

ha ha, very clever: exceedingly commonplace ...

...perhaps I will be the first to expose the secrets behind déjŕ vu in my psychological studies.

Awesome... this one is a winner.
Rhettgray 3 / 13  
Jan 18, 2011   #6
déjŕ vu it been happening to me a lot lately it like a rush videos n pic of what is going on.In Ur head all u can say this happened before same everything trying to explain it to Ur girlfriend is hell.

my theory not really my theory ....theory from 5 stoner who are my friend came up with this

"we have two world both alike in every-way same people same news and everything .the only different in the world is world 1 had a 3 or more days head start ....this means the world 1 you have already live what just happen to you "

that the theory they put together n i can remember
EF_Kevin 8 / 13,321 129  
Jan 19, 2011   #7
"we have two world both alike in every-way same people same news and everything .the only different in the world is world 1 had a 3 or more days head start

Ha ha, but if it is a different world, why would something experienced by a person in that world cause me to feel familiar with a situation in this world?

I like the theory!
Rhettgray 3 / 13  
Jan 19, 2011   #8
the reason is that "the person in world one is also u "
EF_Kevin 8 / 13,321 129  
Jan 20, 2011   #9
Oh, I should have known that. And if I can be in two worlds at the same time, I suppose I can also be in this world more than once at the same time, too. Maybe I am you, and we are talking to ourself!
Rhettgray 3 / 13  
Jan 20, 2011   #10
No

the only different in the world is world 1 had a 3 or more days head start

so if u was me the theory is destory


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