Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!hudson!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!oliveb!oliven!hawk From: hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick) Newsgroups: net.college Subject: Re: On Wasting Time . . . . an essay by James Michener Message-ID: <773@oliven.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 14:13:04 EST Article-I.D.: oliven.773 Posted: Fri Dec 21 14:13:04 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:47:51 EST References: <716@pucc-k> <6702@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Symposium on Alchoholism Lines: 26 >> ON WASTING TIME >> >> We all worry about wasting time, about the years sliding past, >> about what we intend to do with our lives. We shouldn't. >I guess Michener was trying to be succinct here... His books tend to >wordiness, but are enjoyable for all that, but I really do think that >this might be going a bit too far in the opposite direction. >And a professor who labels this an "essay" is in for a problem with >students turning in two sentences as their "essay" on some assigned >topic or another. Some recent Stanford applications (successful) included the following: Definition of courage: "This." Name the word that your friends would be most likely to use to describe you and write an essay: "Concise" And the one that we tried to get my brother to use (he got in anyway): Name the word that your friends would be most likely to use to describe you and write an essay: "Egotistical. Damn, I'm good." rick