User:Johnfreez/As It Happens

99.31.222.195 (talk) 22:25, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * UC admissions, 'holistic review':
 * http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/20/local/la-me-0120-uc-regents-20110120
 * http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/080905_holistic-admissions_reed.aspx

10:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC) i do not understand the significance of my life the beauty of my life the potential of my life
 * dash the past

08:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * play music
 * work with dad
 * learn emt
 * communicate, learn to

03:00, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It comforts me to know that it rains outside.

21:40, 1 July 2010 (UTC) A POET’S ADVICE TO STUDENTS

A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feeling through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t. A lot of people think or believe or know they feel-but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling - not knowing or believing or thinking.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.

To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anyone who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time-and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.

If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed.

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world-unless you’re not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

Does this sound dismal? It isn’t. It’s the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.

e. e. cummings


 * "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard(er) battle"

09:52, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Make the land more fertile. Bury your banana. Go to the ground and die, that you and i and all life, may grow, fully thrive.
 * watch Flow_(movie)
 * read Flow_(book)
 * read Diogenes of Sinope
 * read Zhuangzi, early anarchist
 * visit QLRC

=Saturday, May 29, 2010=
 * I hate this. I didn't know my little brother did this awesome wedding video and I didn't even know about it. It's because we don't communicate. Not much. I don't like it. I want the people I care about to share with me the beautiful things they do.
 * The Internet is a great equalizer. Speak your mind and it will have an effect. Be intentional about what kind of mind you put forth, for the effects can be strong and long lasting.

=Friday, March 12, 2010=
 * i don't trust your pleas you pathological sophist, you specious wizard

=Friday, February 26, 2010=
 * "Everything is said about our society except what it is, and the nature of its two basic principles--the commodity and the spectacle." ~ from On the Poverty of Student Life

=Saturday, February 13, 2010= 'You're tapping is really loud' Don't lettem' convince you that -you're tapping is too loud-!

136.152.190.171 (talk) 10:36, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * presentation content
 * form function
 * medium message
 * means meaning
 * means meaning

=Wednesday, February 10, 2010=
 * When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property