The Beginning of the End is still a beginning

As with all my first previous blog posts, which are all lost, I will outline the guidelines which all my future posts will follow. This is mere tradition rather than any form of set rules by which I must abide. They are:

1. Opinions posted in my posts are not my true belief unless specifically stated.

And the most important one:

2. All statements are true as far as I’m concerned and if you wish to challenge my view I welcome your argument. However it is fundamental that you have all the facts.

Also NO Sophistry, this one is a rule.


Once Upon a Time there was an Essay

Over the past week or so I have been writing a personal essay for my Masters application form. Many hours have been spent researching the topic and formulating a structured essay where I present myself as the greatest applicant that the university has on offer. I usually have no problem writing, I rarely suffer writers block and it my problems usually occur because I cannot type as fast as my ideas come. However this time I’m left staring at a flashing cursor, it is mildly infuriating to say the least.

Alas it is not all a tragic tale because at last my brain awoke with ideas and writing began. An outline has been established and each paragraph has a topic. Now I just have to expand it from the 100 words it is into a Pulitzer winning article. Fun.

The point to this is saying your great is not good enough you have to back it up with hardened facts. I know I learnt the hard way.

All this for an essay that is only 600 words, bring on my 15,000 word thesis.

"If you would not fail of what you seek, or incur what you shun, desire nothing that belongs to others; shun nothing that lies beyond your own control; otherwise you must necessarily be disappointed in what you seek, and incur what you shun."