Frosh are freaking out on the ACB, in their livejournals, on blogger.
Something about me is not letting me like WestCo, and I think it’s the fact that my ex lives there, or perhaps it is because it goes out of its way to be, I don’t know, the different people dormitory. Now, I know I’m just some freshman who has been here for a few hours more than a week so I really shouldn’t be making assumptions like that, but that’s its reputation. That’s how it sells itself during the housing request form. And case in point, some foolish girl at breakfast the other day toted such choice lines as “Oh, in WestCo, we don’t ever where shoes.” And it bothered me. I don’t know. I chose Wesleyan because I wanted to go to school with kids who were like me: weird and intelligent and accepting and passionate about things. I didn’t want to go to a school with kids who went out of their way to be weird and say intelligent things and, I don’t know, I think the biggest let down is how close minded people are here.
Come on, Wesleyan. Assuage those fears.
i guess that after i figured out how to get the italics to work in my blogspot, i must have thrown all caution to the wind. forgive me, said mistake is at the very heart of what i was trying to say. mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
i guess that after i figured out how to get the italics to work in my blogspot, i must have thrown all caution to the wind. forgive me, said mistake is at the very heart of what i was trying to say. mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
where shoes?
where shoes?
Everyone’s trying pretty hard right now to be cool…wait it out, and give everyone their second and third chances.
Everyone’s trying pretty hard right now to be cool…wait it out, and give everyone their second and third chances.
:0)Thank you.I’d like to say more than a superficial “thank you”, but as this may not be the best forum for it, I’ll refrain.And I do understand what you said about ignorance, and I do try my best not to hold it against the person and more often than not succeed. However, what I referred to in my post which Xue quoted were seemingly innocuous acts of maliciousness that slowly proved themselves perhaps not so isolated, if that makes any sense.But once again, thank you.Cheers,Anthony
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Thank you.
I’d like to say more than a superficial “thank you”, but as this may not be the best forum for it, I’ll refrain.
And I do understand what you said about ignorance, and I do try my best not to hold it against the person and more often than not succeed. However, what I referred to in my post which Xue quoted were seemingly innocuous acts of maliciousness that slowly proved themselves perhaps not so isolated, if that makes any sense.
But once again, thank you.
Cheers,
Anthony
“[I’ve] only been here a few hours more than a week so I really shouldn’t be making assumptions””the biggest let down is how close minded people are here”One of the greatest things about Wesleyan, for me, is that it’s an environment very conducive to constant self-observation and self-critique. My advice to you, if you are encountering close-mindedness, would be to embody the open-mindedness you would like to see by withholding judgment.None of us are perfect, and almost all of us have good intentions. Few people are deliberately close-minded, especially here – we’re ignorant when we don’t know that we’re ignorant. That goes for me and you as well; there are inevitably countless ways in which we ourselves are closed-minded, it’s just hard to see them. That knowledge should help you have compassion for those you see as “close-minded,” and refrain from closing yourself off through judgment.Even if you must imagine that you are somehow better than these people, there’s still learning to be done, and there’s still room for gratitude. Khalil Gibran wrote:”I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” Need we be?
“[I’ve] only been here a few hours more than a week so I really shouldn’t be making assumptions”
“the biggest let down is how close minded people are here”
One of the greatest things about Wesleyan, for me, is that it’s an environment very conducive to constant self-observation and self-critique. My advice to you, if you are encountering close-mindedness, would be to embody the open-mindedness you would like to see by withholding judgment.
None of us are perfect, and almost all of us have good intentions. Few people are deliberately close-minded, especially here – we’re ignorant when we don’t know that we’re ignorant. That goes for me and you as well; there are inevitably countless ways in which we ourselves are closed-minded, it’s just hard to see them. That knowledge should help you have compassion for those you see as “close-minded,” and refrain from closing yourself off through judgment.
Even if you must imagine that you are somehow better than these people, there’s still learning to be done, and there’s still room for gratitude. Khalil Gibran wrote:
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” Need we be?
That freshman sounds like such a negative Nancy, but I bet he has great hair and a perfect ass.
That freshman sounds like such a negative Nancy, but I bet he has great hair and a perfect ass.