CBWInterest firt or purpose first?Angela Duckworth talks about how you stpend a long time developing interests and then purpose comes about later. But now I’m reading…Oct 13, 2022Oct 13, 2022
CBWI’m a forensic scientistTrying to figure out what when wrong in my life to get me to this point. to get me to this poing. werhe I could have taen agency. where the…Oct 10, 2022Oct 10, 2022
CBW“As a reader for Princeton admissions 2006/7 we were told that the process does not favor the late…A 17 year old can say things that look good, like they care about cancer but they really don’t. This essay tells you that you are not even…Oct 10, 2022Oct 10, 2022
CBWWhat else do I want to say?Princeton doesn’t want you to find passion. It sure doesn’t. Where is my anger here? Where is my anger here? It is at society. It is at my…Oct 9, 2022Oct 9, 2022
CBWSo many factors at playIn creating the person who doesn’t do anything. Or who perpetually dreams of doing things but never dives in and shies away nervously once…Oct 9, 2022Oct 9, 2022
CBWSo, here are the storiesIn broad brushstrokes, it wasn’t OK to be stupid in my family and it wasn’t ok to do anything that distracted you from potential Ivy League…Oct 8, 2022Oct 8, 2022
CBWThey don’t tell you what happens nextSo that woman who got out of crazy town from her parents and managed to go where, Harvard? I don’t remember, I need to look it up. But…Oct 8, 2022Oct 8, 2022
CBWI lost my previous storyBut I’m going to keep going. Anyway, Surprise Valley high school, or whatever its previous incarnation was, was my grandfather’s high…Oct 8, 2022Oct 8, 2022
CBWSo, I do nothing all day longI made tiny forays into things that interest me. Mostly I hold on to ideas and never do them. It happens when you worship at the altar of…Oct 8, 2022Oct 8, 2022
CBWWhy I’m writing thisI’m writing this to save my life. I’m writing this to discover why I can’t take actions, why I don’t feel my interests, why I watch zit…Oct 8, 2022Oct 8, 2022