So tonight, I was sitting in a really fantastic group for my group project for my seminar. We all worked really hard and well together. I think our project turned out really well due to the fact that we worked really well together. As I sat there, I recalled some horrible group projects I had in high school. Sometimes, it was completely imbalanced. Only one or two people would do the work 5 people should have. It was really obnoxious, because in a lot of cases, all of the members would get the grade for the work of a few.
This is kinda similar to civic virtue. A lot of people think they can think just donate a bit of money or do a tiny volunteer project once a year, and they're the most civilly virtuous person. Realistically, I bet the most charity/volunteering comes from a few people who do a lot of work. Then everyone else takes credit for it. Which is dumb!!
I'll be honest, I'm not the civically virtuous person. But I also don't claim to be. And if I was going to, I'd do something to substantiate the claim. But don't claim to be so great, when you aren't doing the work that'd prove it.
12.09.2011
Are you serious. This was the one pleasure I had for my night.
No seriously, I just opened up a cheese stick, one of those half yellow half white mozzarella ones. And no joke, only like a quarter of it was white mozzarella. AND, let's be real, if we had to have such an awkward disparity, I'd want it to be majority white mozzarella. Because, that tastes better. Way better. So here I am, blogging, drinking a... version of grape juice... and eating this effed up cheese stick.
It reminds me of all of my essays. Because I have really prominent academic voice, and not quite enough personal voice. We've talked about it in my English class, but I really think it's a matter of being deliberate about adding my personal voice. It's going to be a learning process. But for now, I'm analytical as hell.
So, as soon as the cheese stick company makes perfectly balanced cheese sticks, I'll have a perfectly balanced voice in my papers.
It reminds me of all of my essays. Because I have really prominent academic voice, and not quite enough personal voice. We've talked about it in my English class, but I really think it's a matter of being deliberate about adding my personal voice. It's going to be a learning process. But for now, I'm analytical as hell.
So, as soon as the cheese stick company makes perfectly balanced cheese sticks, I'll have a perfectly balanced voice in my papers.
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