06-26-2009, 07:26 PM
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| Amazing Article -- If True
This is one of the best articles I've ever read, and it happens to be based on a visit to Deep Springs many many years ago. I don't vouch for its truthfulness, but it's a great article nevertheless. From a job-search site I go on from time to time. Online Job Search Engine, Website with All Jobs Database, Job Search Tips, RSS & XML Jobs Feeds
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Prior to visiting the school, I had filled out a very long application that required me to write something like 50+ pages of essays. The essay I spent the most time on was pretty bizarre. It had something to do with examining how to reform criminals in society, and I hypothesized in a long essay that a very effective treatment would be lock them in a room and play subliminal music with all sorts of hypnotic suggestions, which would change their minds and force them to think like good people instead of criminals. I estimated that several years of this sort of treatment would be enough to permanently alter the criminals and make them fit to reenter society.
Strangely enough, the people who read this essay at the school thought my idea was groundbreaking, and when I arrived at the school they were eager to discuss this theory with me. As it turned out they had actually spent a few days prior to my arrivial researching hypnosis, subliminal suggestions and so forth, and they all seemed to think I was some kind of an expert on these subjects. At least once or twice I walked into areas where a couple of guys were hanging out, and they had been discussing the theory I had come up with as a small group.
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On my last full day at the college, I was told that I would be being interviewed by the admissions committee at 2:00 p.m. and that I should report to a classroom at the school at that time. In the morning, someone came and told me that I should spend “every spare second” reviewing each of my essays prior to my interviews with the admissions committee later that day. At the request of the school, I had brought my essays with me.
When I went into the classroom at the appointed hour, the 25 students were all there ready to interview me. They were all gathered around the classroom and each of them had portions of my various essays in front of them. They proceeded to dissect the essays, everyone going over one part of the essays or another with me. The questions that they asked me were very difficult and I really did not do very well in the interviews. One of the most embarrassing moments came when they asked me a question about Carl Jung, whom I had quoted in one of my essays. I had included a few lines about how Carl Jung believed this or that.
“Have you ever actually read any books by Carl Jung?” one of the students asked me.
“No, I’ve never read a single thing by him,” I answered truthfully.
“Then how can you possibly have a large quote from him in your essay, base an essay around his teachings and also lead us to believe that you know what you are talking about?”
It was a really good question and he had a point. The rest of the experience and all of the questions went basically like this: I would say one thing and they would contradict me and accuse me of not really understanding what I was talking about.
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