tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599495.post113891163560394517..comments2023-08-26T08:59:46.495-04:00Comments on Smarter: Little Mind Mind Too Muchbecketthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00311925808138360279noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599495.post-1138999255999738152006-02-03T15:40:00.000-05:002006-02-03T15:40:00.000-05:00They didn't say. Soon I hope, and hope too I can b...They didn't say. Soon I hope, and hope too I can be delivered from the same drudgery that drove you to law school.La Mismahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17266248435540012274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599495.post-1138998028576523422006-02-03T15:20:00.000-05:002006-02-03T15:20:00.000-05:00Is this a recent submission? When will you find if...Is this a recent submission? When will you find if you are accepted?becketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311925808138360279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599495.post-1138984671646133232006-02-03T11:37:00.000-05:002006-02-03T11:37:00.000-05:00I went through something similar recently when I a...I went through something similar recently when I applied to an artist's colony in upstate New York. I sent an excerpt of the novel I've been struggling with for 8 months to two other writers (for letters of rec), and when they said they liked it, my whole view of it changed. I felt superbly gifted, instead of lost and inept. I was excited and over-full of ego. My fantasies of literary greatness are too embarrassing to relate. <BR/><BR/>Fortunately, the flood of ego actually helped me progress with the writing. Maybe sometimes it provides some evolutionarily helpful adreneline. <BR/><BR/>And everyone boasts and name-drops in their personal essays to get into grad school. It's probably a genre unto itself: Pure Little Mind Writing. Unfortunately, the experience of grad school itself can be quite competitive and ego-driven. But you sound prepared to battle it into submission or at least, some balance.La Mismahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17266248435540012274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599495.post-1138927168958142582006-02-02T19:39:00.000-05:002006-02-02T19:39:00.000-05:00I am the greatest!!!!!!!At overuse of exclamation ...I am the greatest!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>At overuse of exclamation marks!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>Or not.becketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311925808138360279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13599495.post-1138926060673552852006-02-02T19:21:00.000-05:002006-02-02T19:21:00.000-05:00Congratulations on your acceptances. I hope my com...Congratulations on your acceptances. I hope my comment doesn't contribute to your ego too much. I like Chomsky. He brings a light to shine on glaring discrepancies between the nation's self-image and its actual actions.vacuoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312230410673714999noreply@blogger.com