I love talking. Don't get me wrong. I am not Oprah. Talking about feelings and emotions is certainly not my forte. Instead, I love getting to the bottom of things. "Boiling things down", translated into the vernacular, gives me satisfaction that I have a unique answer to a pressing issue in the world. Be it common topics such as the justification of the death penalty or arcane themes like the meaning of life, I believe I have something meaningful to say on "real" issues. At Boston University, I would love nothing more than to find a group of similar people whose idea of fun is to sit around a room, sip hot chocolate, and use logic to find answers through our ability to "boil down" the cacophony of opinions in our world into a meaningful symphony.
Perhaps, my thirst for knowledge, as the cliché goes, came from my inquisitiveness. Being naturally curious has always been a part of how I make every-day decisions. It doesn't have to be a very difficult decision; it can even be as simple as deciding how to waste time. Wasting time is regrettably, what I was required to do at my state speech qualifier. Between rounds, speakers can wait as long as two to three hours. Some young men choose to spend that time by sitting around the comfortable tables playing endless, banal games of Blackjack and Poker. No, I was not satisfied with wasting my time in that manner. Instead, I was outside headed off into a direction I found appealing in the efforts to explore the university's campus. During the hours of exploring this unknown "jungle", as I called it, I found several interesting places of interests such as clean bathrooms, a small church, and even a garden that lay far away from the hall I started my journey from.
It is said that the character Polemarchus from Plato's Republic had the qualities, which Plato considered necessary for debaters. I revel in the arts of polemics. Only through questioning the conventional practices do we ever gain progress. AP Government is a class that has satiated my needs to be polemical. Recently, our class had the opportunity of introducing new bills to the principal for a chance our bills could have the opportunity of being enacted. After being assigned to a mock Rules Committee, I eagerly created a sub-committee to specialize in class recommendations. I argued before the class to adopt a resolution to forego parental overrides to teacher recommendations to AP classes. Many of my classmates introduced bills of making restrooms cleaner or improving cafeteria food, excellent issues in their own rights, but I chose to challenge a conventional method in hopes of progress.
I admire the owl. Although I think turning my head a full 360 degrees would be amazing, I admire the animal most because it is nocturnal. I choose to be nocturnal, never forced into it. A conundrum to be sure, I choose to be nocturnal as a offshoot of being inquisitive. Like many Americans, I love to watch the show Jeopardy. In one particular episode, "Watergate", or to appease those Jeopardy aficionados out there, "What is Watergate" turned out to be the winning answer. Alarms went off in head after hearing this word. What is the correlation between water and gate? My search began into finding out exactly what Watergate meant. My search lasted long into the night and it was filled with listening to political speeches, conducting carefully worded Google searches, and finally, ending with a thorough knowledge of the resignation of President Nixon. It is true that some knowledge can be considered useless, but to me it's all trivia.
Being inquisitive, polemical, and nocturnal, I believe I can touch the BU community. Our world has many questions. Just the people at Boston University can help me find at least a helpful lead on these pressing questions. A think-tank of collectively unique minds will mesh together ideas in order to find answers.
Perhaps, my thirst for knowledge, as the cliché goes, came from my inquisitiveness. Being naturally curious has always been a part of how I make every-day decisions. It doesn't have to be a very difficult decision; it can even be as simple as deciding how to waste time. Wasting time is regrettably, what I was required to do at my state speech qualifier. Between rounds, speakers can wait as long as two to three hours. Some young men choose to spend that time by sitting around the comfortable tables playing endless, banal games of Blackjack and Poker. No, I was not satisfied with wasting my time in that manner. Instead, I was outside headed off into a direction I found appealing in the efforts to explore the university's campus. During the hours of exploring this unknown "jungle", as I called it, I found several interesting places of interests such as clean bathrooms, a small church, and even a garden that lay far away from the hall I started my journey from.
It is said that the character Polemarchus from Plato's Republic had the qualities, which Plato considered necessary for debaters. I revel in the arts of polemics. Only through questioning the conventional practices do we ever gain progress. AP Government is a class that has satiated my needs to be polemical. Recently, our class had the opportunity of introducing new bills to the principal for a chance our bills could have the opportunity of being enacted. After being assigned to a mock Rules Committee, I eagerly created a sub-committee to specialize in class recommendations. I argued before the class to adopt a resolution to forego parental overrides to teacher recommendations to AP classes. Many of my classmates introduced bills of making restrooms cleaner or improving cafeteria food, excellent issues in their own rights, but I chose to challenge a conventional method in hopes of progress.
I admire the owl. Although I think turning my head a full 360 degrees would be amazing, I admire the animal most because it is nocturnal. I choose to be nocturnal, never forced into it. A conundrum to be sure, I choose to be nocturnal as a offshoot of being inquisitive. Like many Americans, I love to watch the show Jeopardy. In one particular episode, "Watergate", or to appease those Jeopardy aficionados out there, "What is Watergate" turned out to be the winning answer. Alarms went off in head after hearing this word. What is the correlation between water and gate? My search began into finding out exactly what Watergate meant. My search lasted long into the night and it was filled with listening to political speeches, conducting carefully worded Google searches, and finally, ending with a thorough knowledge of the resignation of President Nixon. It is true that some knowledge can be considered useless, but to me it's all trivia.
Being inquisitive, polemical, and nocturnal, I believe I can touch the BU community. Our world has many questions. Just the people at Boston University can help me find at least a helpful lead on these pressing questions. A think-tank of collectively unique minds will mesh together ideas in order to find answers.
