/lit/ - Literature

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>Hear The Wind Sing
>As I Lay Dying
>After The Quake
>The Stranger
>Don Quixote

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So I'm 18 and I'm applying for college, but I'm unsure of myself in writing my essay.

I'm very intellectual and read and think all the time (politics, philosophy, psychology, etc.), so much so that I want to become a professor.

I'm thinking about addressing this prompt on the Common App:

>Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.

I figured it would be a good idea for me to write about my intellectual appetite, however, I'm afraid I'll come off like a pretentious pseudo-intellectual dork (which I am not, I'm gravely serious about the intellectual process and about becoming a professor) and it will be off-putting to the admissions staff.

I don't have trouble writing. I'm regarded as an excellent writer. But I'm worried about the sort of feelings I may provoke in the admissions staff about me identifying myself as an "intellectual", something which coming from someone with no qualifications sounds pretentious and may be a silly thing to write about on this prompt.

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>Miami, FL
>The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

It's really interesting and educational. A bit dense and hard to read but rewarding.

>tfw the only way to put an end to the mind-body problem is to provide a purely physicalistic reduction of an arbitrary spatiotemporal event where an arbitrary proposition such as "John understands what Eric is saying except for the 5th word of Eric's speech act" is translated from the mentalistic way of speaking into predicates that can be found and is used in the Standard Model of physics.
>mfw you only need one such fragment
>mfw no one has ever demonstrated this to the satisfaction of many
>mfw you're a physicalist and you're just stuck on that full-fledged reduction

>>7846647
He's being farcical, friend.

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