HELLLPPP!!
Wow, the kitty looks insane. But, anyway. I need your help! Here's the thing...Emerson College asks me to write a very personal and difficult essay (in my opinion) for the Honors College. I have NO idea what to write. I know it seems absurd that I'm asking all of you to give me suggestions, but I've thought about this and I've realized that you guys know me just as well as anyone else if not better. You've read my thoughts, you know what I'm like...you know what's been going on in my life. So pleaaase try to give me some suggestion.
Here is the prompt:
Wallace Bacon, a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Emerson College in 1975, wrote that the liberal arts, or humanities, "are concerned with the question of what makes life worth living. And that question concerns not simply oneself but others. The humanities must help us learn who we are; they must help us learn the otherness of others."
In this light, dscribe an encounter with someone or something different -an "other" which revealed to you your senses of self and your relation to humanity. This encounter may involve a person, place, culture, or text.
So here is my question. Do any of you remember a time when I discussed someone or something that had a profound effect on me? That opened my eyes to something? Should I write about my dad? Would it be too tacky to write about a boyfriend? How about Sasha?
Here is the prompt:
Wallace Bacon, a recipient of an honorary doctorate from Emerson College in 1975, wrote that the liberal arts, or humanities, "are concerned with the question of what makes life worth living. And that question concerns not simply oneself but others. The humanities must help us learn who we are; they must help us learn the otherness of others."
In this light, dscribe an encounter with someone or something different -an "other" which revealed to you your senses of self and your relation to humanity. This encounter may involve a person, place, culture, or text.
So here is my question. Do any of you remember a time when I discussed someone or something that had a profound effect on me? That opened my eyes to something? Should I write about my dad? Would it be too tacky to write about a boyfriend? How about Sasha?