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 Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:36 pm
chaoticpuppet I hate personal statements, I never know how to start them, I always think they sound either like some sort of 'pity me because I'm underprivileged', a cliche filled piece of s**t, or a 'hey, look, it's my resume, but in paragraph form!' style of writing. scream I think I'd almost rather just do an interview than write a personal essay for law school. Merge the resume with some anecdotes. :3nods:
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:14 pm
I constantly feel like I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do. In the meantime I get angry at myself for browsing forums and playing facebook apps, even though I understand that while it's important to give my brain a break before it turns from scrambled eggs into liquid, I'm also enabling my procrastinating habit and not doing anything productive.
... crying
Furthermore I haven't written a ten page essay in...I can't even remember. Years. And now I'm slammed with three.
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:22 pm
Sophist Furthermore I haven't written a ten page essay in...I can't even remember. Years. And now I'm slammed with three. What topics?
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:16 pm
Sophist I constantly feel like I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do. In the meantime I get angry at myself for browsing forums and playing facebook apps, even though I understand that while it's important to give my brain a break before it turns from scrambled eggs into liquid, I'm also enabling my procrastinating habit and not doing anything productive. ... crying If you find a way to solve this, do let me in on it! Quote: Furthermore I haven't written a ten page essay in...I can't even remember. Years. And now I'm slammed with three. Best wishes for your essays! I had never written on longer than two pages but am in the process of writing a seven page one. It only had to be five pages (1500 words) but it's writing itself to be longer.
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:30 pm
TeaDidikai Sophist Furthermore I haven't written a ten page essay in...I can't even remember. Years. And now I'm slammed with three. What topics? Well technically one of those 10 pagers is two 5 page essays that are non-academic and more self-exploratory, so that's nice. I won't have as much problem with those. Another one is for my Ancient Egypt class. I chose to write about the differing conceptions of the ancient Egyptian gods, specifically the arguments for monotheism, monolatry, henotheism, polytheism, etc. and I'll try to argue for one of those. I have a bunch of textual support though all of them are secondary. I suppose I could go through my book of the dead and Pyramid texts but that sounds like too much work for what will really be a cut and dry essay. It's just the planning and reading and outlining that will take time. The last one is the one that worries me. For my culture and sex in East Asia class, I decided to write about Chinese feminism during the May 4th Era. It will mostly be analyzing the pros and cons of a state approved male rhetoric for female emancipation for the good of production, rather than an organic movement initiated by women for women. I have maybe 4 or 5 textual supports that make me feel a little better about it, but I had entirely no clue about any of it until I read a couple of articles about it for class and decided to pursue the topic further. I am a little concerned that I might not be approaching it from the right direction and hope to write an essay that addresses the important concepts and historical events that are relevant. And then there's actually CONSTRUCTING a 10 page essay. I'm mostly worried about the format, such as when to introduce key concepts, how much time I should spend writing about them, etc. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:34 pm
Aino Ailill Sophist I constantly feel like I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do. In the meantime I get angry at myself for browsing forums and playing facebook apps, even though I understand that while it's important to give my brain a break before it turns from scrambled eggs into liquid, I'm also enabling my procrastinating habit and not doing anything productive. ... crying If you find a way to solve this, do let me in on it! I've recently taken to setting a goal for the day and taking breaks at significant junctures, such as a quarter way through, halfway through, etc., and then rewarding myself with playing a few games or browsing forums. What I'd REALLY like to do is go take a walk but then I'd have to change out of my pajamas... emo It makes me feel better to get some things done, rather than being angry at the end of the day and refusing to sleep at a normal hour because I haven't really done anything. Quote: Quote: Furthermore I haven't written a ten page essay in...I can't even remember. Years. And now I'm slammed with three. Best wishes for your essays! I had never written on longer than two pages but am in the process of writing a seven page one. It only had to be five pages (1500 words) but it's writing itself to be longer. Thank you!
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:51 pm
Sophist TeaDidikai Sophist Furthermore I haven't written a ten page essay in...I can't even remember. Years. And now I'm slammed with three. What topics? Well technically one of those 10 pagers is two 5 page essays that are non-academic and more self-exploratory, so that's nice. I won't have as much problem with those. Another one is for my Ancient Egypt class. I chose to write about the differing conceptions of the ancient Egyptian gods, specifically the arguments for monotheism, monolatry, henotheism, polytheism, etc. and I'll try to argue for one of those. I have a bunch of textual support though all of them are secondary. I suppose I could go through my book of the dead and Pyramid texts but that sounds like too much work for what will really be a cut and dry essay. It's just the planning and reading and outlining that will take time. The last one is the one that worries me. For my culture and sex in East Asia class, I decided to write about Chinese feminism during the May 4th Era. It will mostly be analyzing the pros and cons of a state approved male rhetoric for female emancipation for the good of production, rather than an organic movement initiated by women for women. I have maybe 4 or 5 textual supports that make me feel a little better about it, but I had entirely no clue about any of it until I read a couple of articles about it for class and decided to pursue the topic further. I am a little concerned that I might not be approaching it from the right direction and hope to write an essay that addresses the important concepts and historical events that are relevant. And then there's actually CONSTRUCTING a 10 page essay. I'm mostly worried about the format, such as when to introduce key concepts, how much time I should spend writing about them, etc. sweatdrop Those are all going to be awesome papers!
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:54 pm
What have you read in regard to your feminism in the May 4th Era essay? It sounds like a very interesting topic and I would like to explore it.
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:56 pm
TeaDidikai Those are all going to be awesome papers! I hope so. emo The topics themselves are quite interesting and I hope to do them justice. If not, well, I know I'll be doing my best, and that's about all I can do.
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:07 pm
Aino Ailill What have you read in regard to your feminism in the May 4th Era essay? It sounds like a very interesting topic and I would like to explore it. So far I've read a couple of selectons from books, namely chapter eight (The Impact of the Marriage Law of 1950) of the book "Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution" by Ono Kazuko, and chapter one (From Gender Erasure to Gender Difference: State Feminism, Consumer Sexuality, and Women's Public Sphere in China) of "Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China" ed. by Mayfair Mei-hui Yang. I really recommend that second reading if this topic interests you, it was really fascinating to learn about the actual erasure of the female gender in the name of "equality." I also have ready to read "Chinese Femininities Chinese Maculinities" ed. by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, for its articles "Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature" by Lydia H. Liu, and "The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature" by Wendy Larson. As well as "Reconceiving Women's Equality in China" by Lijun Yuan. One I'm excited to read is in the mail: "Women in the Chinese Enlightenment" by Zheng Wang, that has five testimonies from women activists living during this period. Now if only I had read Foucault. Then I'd have an easy way to approach the essay, and just argue about power structures, with which China was rife. But I really have no idea what the research question will be.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:16 am
Thank you group. I specifically told you that I will be printing our poster as soon as possible. On Saturday morning, you replied back after I formatted everything about a few things and once that was finished, it would be great if I printed it.
I just got your emails saying "send it to the TA!" this morning. About 30 minutes ago, I sent it to the printer. ******** it.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:27 am
Sophist, for your China essay, you might wanna check out a book called "The Spider Eaters." It's one woman's account of growing up in the era, joining the Red Party, later realizing (like many people did) that it was a big mistake, and where her life has gone since then. Among other things, she has some fascinating bits on the Chinese attitudes about rape, particularly dealing with a girl in her commune who was sent away after making a rape accusation against a mentor, and the author's own changing attitudes about that, both at the time and in retrospect.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:25 am
Sivirs Sophist, for your China essay, you might wanna check out a book called "The Spider Eaters." It's one woman's account of growing up in the era, joining the Red Party, later realizing (like many people did) that it was a big mistake, and where her life has gone since then. Among other things, she has some fascinating bits on the Chinese attitudes about rape, particularly dealing with a girl in her commune who was sent away after making a rape accusation against a mentor, and the author's own changing attitudes about that, both at the time and in retrospect. That sounds amazing.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:36 am
TeaDidikai chaoticpuppet I hate personal statements, I never know how to start them, I always think they sound either like some sort of 'pity me because I'm underprivileged', a cliche filled piece of s**t, or a 'hey, look, it's my resume, but in paragraph form!' style of writing. scream I think I'd almost rather just do an interview than write a personal essay for law school. Merge the resume with some anecdotes. :3nods: This is my new plan, and I've got the body pretty well written I think, I just can't come up with good introduction for my essay. That's always been the hardest part of any essay for me.
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:45 am
chaoticpuppet This is my new plan, and I've got the body pretty well written I think, I just can't come up with good introduction for my essay. That's always been the hardest part of any essay for me. What was the goal of the essay?
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