"Intellectual Viatality" Essay

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>^I see. Very interesting approach. I said how I found parallels of physics and religion interesting…I didn’t want to be overly ambitious and say “I totally want to find the connection between religion and science.”</p>

<p>I’m a Hindu, so I talked about engaging in personal research on the Vedic scriptures of ancient India. Some of the research involved text translations, and I talked about how some of the phenomenas described correlated with what physics has already proved.
I was pretty academic on this one and I showed off much of my knowledge, but I made it very understandable and clear.</p>

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<p>I wrote about my research in a not so well known field, and how it taught me to acknowledge and question the unknown. and that only by acknowledging the unknown can we instigate scientific revolutions and shifts in scientific paradigms. </p>

<p>i actually don’t remember, i wrote it in 30 minutes. but the ideas have been in the back of my head for a long time.</p>

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<p>I talked about dissecting a cat. And how as I dug deeper into my study, the more my intellect expanded. Quite morbid in those terms, I know. But I loved it!</p>