The Best of 2007: High Achievements
Best example of how to stand out at college.
When you're invited to speak at a prestigious university, and the president of that institution, giving in to pressure from, I suspect, the faculty and organizations within the student body, dresses you down before you speak, there can be no refuting that you have ascended to the highest levels of academic infamy.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows how abrade people's sensibilities in ways even the most inflammatory student of an American college will never know. While I've been condemned and criticized by individuals with degrees, it has never been with such eloquence and rhythm, so wonderfully terse, as being called "either outrageously provocative or astonishingly uneducated."
I can think of a few scenes in Joseph Conrad's novella that show an example of this theme: boilers rusting in the sun, a Man of War shelling a hillside but making no difference in the terrain, and a man fetching water to put out a fire with a bucket which has a hole in it. In our time, I can not think of a better example of this theme than where I work. Within The Plant lies proof that only the Government can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every time.
From a toilet in the men's bathroom which puts five thousand gallons of water into the sewer with every flush, to the reams of paper deposited into recycle containers which, in most cases, will be emptied into the trash dumpster by indifferent custodians, this bureaucracy, each and every day, meets its unwritten mission statement: every action shall be a sublime example of "lugubrious drollery."
When you're invited to speak at a prestigious university, and the president of that institution, giving in to pressure from, I suspect, the faculty and organizations within the student body, dresses you down before you speak, there can be no refuting that you have ascended to the highest levels of academic infamy.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows how abrade people's sensibilities in ways even the most inflammatory student of an American college will never know. While I've been condemned and criticized by individuals with degrees, it has never been with such eloquence and rhythm, so wonderfully terse, as being called "either outrageously provocative or astonishingly uneducated."
Best example of the waste and ineffectiveness depicted in Heart of Darkness.
I can think of a few scenes in Joseph Conrad's novella that show an example of this theme: boilers rusting in the sun, a Man of War shelling a hillside but making no difference in the terrain, and a man fetching water to put out a fire with a bucket which has a hole in it. In our time, I can not think of a better example of this theme than where I work. Within The Plant lies proof that only the Government can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every time.From a toilet in the men's bathroom which puts five thousand gallons of water into the sewer with every flush, to the reams of paper deposited into recycle containers which, in most cases, will be emptied into the trash dumpster by indifferent custodians, this bureaucracy, each and every day, meets its unwritten mission statement: every action shall be a sublime example of "lugubrious drollery."
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