Knowledge #2. Can you hear me now? Good. d-_-b

“In order for you to gain experience in research reading, writing and communication, you will consider what you are passionate about in your field and begin to develop a professional identity reflecting this passion.”

That was the same question I was asked when I entered college, “What do you want to do for the rest of your life?”

In no way in hell is that an easy question to answer but throughout time and growth of your knowledge and yourself;  I believe that can help immensely to becoming more accuarte with your depiction of the yourself.

“I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secrect of Siddhartha.” (Hesse)

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/02/deciding-what-to-do-with-your-life/

-A blog that will help put things into perspective.  If anything it good reading material for a thought provoking mind.

In my own experience I believe that it isn’t about how many A’s you got in school or your cumulative GPA.  I tend to go with the theory of it’s how much you learned and the effort you are making as a student or a person in general.  I am not hear to preach or sound repeitive but I think if you try your all then at that point there is an ability to look at your body of work and know you gave it your all. 

The best advice I ever received was to not be shy, get involved with your class, speak out, use all the resources around you and remember that life is to be fun along to go with the classwork. 

“The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he hadn’t known he possessed.”  (Campbell)

To share with you: This is the point in time where I decided to stop being shy.  I wanted to express myself through creativity and writing because in my head that’s what I knew I loved.

I wrote over top of this for Marlen’s class and came up with what you see below it.

Cornfield Paradise

As I walk into my shitty dorm, it always smells like death.

I am gasping from the scent of my roomate having sex.

Cause I’ve been awoken by choking so long that,

I use febreeze daily till the scent is gone.

The bathroom smell is hell, throw up on the wall, that’s not unheard of.

You better watch your stance, or go to a frat to dance.

Make sure not to eat Foster, or you shit your pants.

I really hate classes but, I gotta go.

I gotta quit procrastination, get off academic probation, fool !

Indiana, Pennsylvania it’s own little heaven.

The only class I’m down with,

ENGLISH 101-017!

Chorus:

Been spending most this year living in an Indiana cornfield. (x4)

Look at English class as I bust my ass.

All I do is blog, till I croack and die like a frog.

So I gotta be down with Marlen’s ways.

Too much Diane Ackerman got me counting days.

I’m an educated fool with blogs on my brain.

Word press dot com, seems to have me going insane.

I’m an IUP Freshman, set trippin’ banger.

Living the dream it is impossible to rise my anger, fool!

I’m typing papers do-or-die what can I say?

I’m eighteen now, but will I live to be a sophmore?

The way things is going, I’ll be here all four.

Tell me why don’t I, come to class high?

Maybe then I could, answer What is I…

Chrous (x4)

Hacker and the study, study and the Hacker

Page after page, makes me want to slap her.

Everbody’s studying, but half of them ain’t know.

What’s goin on in this class, improvement is what we show.

They say I gotta learn but Marlen’s here to teach me.

Nobody else understands, he’s the only one to reach me.

All this hard work and what can I say?

That I’m going to walk out of English with my first college A, fool !

-Now it’s your turn. Come out of your own shells and don’t hold back.

“Within you there is a stillness and santuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself, just as I can.  Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it.” (Hesse)

Campbell, Joseph. The Power of Myth.  New York: Anchor Books A Division of Random House, Inc., 1991

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha. New York: Bantam Books A Division of Random House, Inc., 1951