I'm not sure which essay topic I'm going to go with, but I decided to write up a rough draft for one of them. Please give me any advice you have, and be mean if you have to; I can take it.
B.What is the best piece of advice you've ever been given, and why?
Being asked an incessant amount of questions by my four-year-old nephew and giving him an interminable number of answers reminds me of a time when I was just as persistent in my quest to satisfy all of my curiosities and also the two words that have become best advice I have ever been given.
When I was younger, like many children in my age group, I had somewhat of an obsession with Pokémon. In one specific case of Pokémon fever, my brother and I were having a dispute over the order of a certain Pokémon's evolutionary level when my mother, obviously tired of the unrelenting arguments and questioning, decided to step in and give us a word of advice. "Google it," she said simply. Not knowing what sort of alien magic of which she spoke, I inquired of her just what this "Google" was. When she showed me and eventually verified, of course, that I was correct in the argument, I reacted both by having my mind blown by this new sorcery and rubbing it in my brother's face that he was wrong.
Since that fateful day, Google has been one of my closest friends. No matter what it is with which I need assistance, be it homework, thirst for further knowledge, or simple boredom, nowhere is there a less biased or more reliable source than Google. Without Google, even such decisions as crucial as my college decision would not be nearly as informed. Skeptics may say that although Google is useful, it is not worthy of the title of best advice ever given, but surely when they are asked to provide support, the first place they will go is the place that they have condemned.
Past the obvious usefulness of Google, my mother's advice has led me to learn indirect life lessons. I have always been told that the sky is the limit, but after being introduced to Google, I disagree. I say that there is no limit! With all that Google has made possible, who is to say that anything is impossible? If we can go from searching for afternoon activities to shopping for a new car to discovering alternative fuel sources in just a few clicks and keystrokes, can we not discover a cure for cancer or develop a system of teleportation devices to increase the ease of daily transportation?
Seeing how two words can revolutionize my life and be seen as nothing more than just another disposable part of life two others really shows how one man's trash can be another man's treasure, but, regardless of Google's simplicity, I plan to Google throughout my stay at Brown and all the way to the end of the earth. All hail the power of Google!
B.What is the best piece of advice you've ever been given, and why?
Being asked an incessant amount of questions by my four-year-old nephew and giving him an interminable number of answers reminds me of a time when I was just as persistent in my quest to satisfy all of my curiosities and also the two words that have become best advice I have ever been given.
When I was younger, like many children in my age group, I had somewhat of an obsession with Pokémon. In one specific case of Pokémon fever, my brother and I were having a dispute over the order of a certain Pokémon's evolutionary level when my mother, obviously tired of the unrelenting arguments and questioning, decided to step in and give us a word of advice. "Google it," she said simply. Not knowing what sort of alien magic of which she spoke, I inquired of her just what this "Google" was. When she showed me and eventually verified, of course, that I was correct in the argument, I reacted both by having my mind blown by this new sorcery and rubbing it in my brother's face that he was wrong.
Since that fateful day, Google has been one of my closest friends. No matter what it is with which I need assistance, be it homework, thirst for further knowledge, or simple boredom, nowhere is there a less biased or more reliable source than Google. Without Google, even such decisions as crucial as my college decision would not be nearly as informed. Skeptics may say that although Google is useful, it is not worthy of the title of best advice ever given, but surely when they are asked to provide support, the first place they will go is the place that they have condemned.
Past the obvious usefulness of Google, my mother's advice has led me to learn indirect life lessons. I have always been told that the sky is the limit, but after being introduced to Google, I disagree. I say that there is no limit! With all that Google has made possible, who is to say that anything is impossible? If we can go from searching for afternoon activities to shopping for a new car to discovering alternative fuel sources in just a few clicks and keystrokes, can we not discover a cure for cancer or develop a system of teleportation devices to increase the ease of daily transportation?
Seeing how two words can revolutionize my life and be seen as nothing more than just another disposable part of life two others really shows how one man's trash can be another man's treasure, but, regardless of Google's simplicity, I plan to Google throughout my stay at Brown and all the way to the end of the earth. All hail the power of Google!
