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Lizard Eyes
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Reflection Essays for College?
#19009988 - 10/21/13 06:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have 3 essays due on Thursday one of which is a reflection essay. I'm supposed to write about some memory or event that had an overall learning experience that changed my life or some AH HAH! type moment. I thought the assignment sounded easy enough but now that I'm actually getting down to try and write it I realize that almost all my moments like that are ones I can't really write about...
If only this world wasn't so square, I could write about the time I was lost on the side of the road on shrooms and realized when shit hits the fan its only you behind the eyes that can save you. 
The time I learned you cant trust anyone, being completely fucked out of my mind as a walking zombie at a rave thinking I took a "generic adderall".
I could write about getting too drunk fighting all my friends waking up with a concussion and realizing that just how fragile our minds actually are 
I could write about being in my hot tub candy flipping staring at a shaped moon smiling at the realization that no matter what everything happens exactly as its supposed to. and there is literally nothing to stress or worry about ever.
I could write about the time I took 3 super potent tabs of what I thought was LSD, and being saved by Touch of Grey and a golden retriever.
Or maybe the time I was frying at Disneyland listening to Schism on space mountain seeing flashes of riding the ride with my dad and realizing how all the pieces fit up to this point.
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All my sober learning events are lame! 
Anyone else run into this same problem or is it just me? 
Share your learning events on dr00gz or in general.
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rackem



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Re: Reflection Essays for College? [Re: Lizard Eyes]
#19010011 - 10/21/13 06:47 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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i really think the reflection essays for college today are a little much.. how many 18 year olds have gone out and changed the damn world at that age.. seems a little much.
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Lizard Eyes
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Re: Reflection Essays for College? [Re: rackem]
#19010512 - 10/21/13 08:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Agreed which is why my only experiences that come to mind are drug induced ones. Drugs tend to make things a little more dramatic/significant IME.
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Re: Reflection Essays for College? [Re: Lizard Eyes]
#19010579 - 10/21/13 08:36 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think OP has lived my life.
From an instructional perspecive, maybe speak with your teacher and clear your ideas for the essay? I teach college English Comp 1 & 2 and always open the semester with, "Someone will write the 'I was so drunk . . .' essay, and someone else will write the 'Marijuana should be legal because' essay, thus opening the floor to the stuff they want to talk about. I don't really care about the subject; it's the process/format/structure/research/etc. that matters for the requirements of the class.
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Re: Reflection Essays for College? [Re: Scarab74]
#19010910 - 10/21/13 09:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You can write about the time that you realized that you've seen Jurassic Park multiple times over the course of your life, but have no idea why a lawyer, 2 paleontologists, and a chaos theorist came to the island in the first place.
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