I have been reading a lot of William James for my History 461 class lately, so I will leave you with a quote of his:
"We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar."
Think about it.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
A-Scholarship Huntin'
I spent the better part of the last couple hours writing a scholarship essay. I am applying for an OSU Undergraduate Library Research Award. It is a $1000 scholarship that goes to the undergraduate who "through the comprehensive use of the OSU Libraries, demonstrates outstanding research, scholarship, and originality in writing a paper or completing a project." I don't know exactly what that means but I did spend 40+ hours in the University Archives last term putting together a weighty essay entitled, "Leading the Way to Real Progress: The Portland Urban League, 1964-1970.
The essay is mostly original scholarship. I pored over hundreds of primary source documents in order to put together the first historical narrative ever on this topic. It kind of makes me proud. I think I have a good chance of winning the award.
Though I am proud of my paper, I DO NOT like writing scholarship essays. It always makes me feel insincere to try to fit into the narrow requirements laid out by most scholarships and I hate that feeling.
The essay is mostly original scholarship. I pored over hundreds of primary source documents in order to put together the first historical narrative ever on this topic. It kind of makes me proud. I think I have a good chance of winning the award.
Though I am proud of my paper, I DO NOT like writing scholarship essays. It always makes me feel insincere to try to fit into the narrow requirements laid out by most scholarships and I hate that feeling.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Intramural Basketball
I play for an intramural basketball team called The Teeming Beavers. Apparently someone told our captain, Jon G., that "teeming" means "wet." A quick jump over to dictionary.com would have disproved this but Jon G. is not a very thorough individual so he went with it. If "teeming" did in fact mean "wet," which it does not, it would have been a great double entendre. On the one hand, the team is made up of mostly water polo players who go to OSU. On the other hand... well, I'll leave the second meaning to your imagination.
Today we played our first intramural game. We played well the entire game until the last five minutes. In the last few minutes of what was a very close game, we did not score a single point and had an array of stupid turnovers. We ended up losing by 5. They had a whole slew of tall guys, however, and we played most of the game without our tallest guy, Eric, so I am happy we were even in the game at the end.
Today we played our first intramural game. We played well the entire game until the last five minutes. In the last few minutes of what was a very close game, we did not score a single point and had an array of stupid turnovers. We ended up losing by 5. They had a whole slew of tall guys, however, and we played most of the game without our tallest guy, Eric, so I am happy we were even in the game at the end.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
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