Pick a genuine shortcoming, but then explain the methods you use to overcome it.
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ChiKat - Aug 04, 2006 10:41:14 am PDT #685 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 04, 2006 10:43:10 am PDT #686 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I say go for something like "I have no patience for bureacratic red tape. Why the hell am I wasting time filling this thing out, again?"
tommyrot - Aug 04, 2006 10:44:16 am PDT #687 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How about, "Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
Trudy Booth - Aug 04, 2006 10:45:04 am PDT #688 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
"Dumb kids piss me off" is probably a no-go, right?
Emily - Aug 04, 2006 10:50:06 am PDT #689 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
She should pick a genuine shortcomming. Like, "I have a low tolerance for stupidity."
Dude, right? Although it turns out I suffer young fools pretty well, because, well, they're supposed to be idiots. They're teenagers. It's supposed grownups who are proud of their stupidity that I can't stand.
Pick a genuine shortcoming, but then explain the methods you use to overcome it.
I've done one of these -- the thing that made me cry after my last official observation, that I really want to stick with something until ALL the kids master it, and that's just not feasible. But I'm looking for another one and trying to avoid my most feared shortcoming, which is "I'm just not that good an authority figure" because I'm afraid that might be too big a shortcoming.
megan walker - Aug 04, 2006 10:50:27 am PDT #690 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Movies: Original Star Trek movies, Lord of the Rings movies (but be sure to mention that they came CLOSE to re-creating the books), Highlander, the Fifth Element, Minority Report, Blade Runner, Alien (deny ever having seen the sequels), Sneakers, marginal reference to the Star Wars series (all geeks have seen Star Wars movies, but seldom RAVE about them), any Monty Python movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and anime.
I love that Sneakers somehow managed to make this list. I have an irrational love of that movie and usually no one seems to have heard of it.
Emily - Aug 04, 2006 10:51:07 am PDT #691 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I say go for something like "I have no patience for bureacratic red tape. Why the hell am I wasting time filling this thing out, again?"
Heh. "I hate writing essays, which seems to make up three quarters of the forms I fill out. I got out of literature for a reason, people!"
Tom Scola - Aug 04, 2006 10:52:54 am PDT #692 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Minority Report has geek cred? If so, I might have to turn in my membership card.
§ ita § - Aug 04, 2006 10:52:58 am PDT #693 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"Literal" is not a word that should be open to interpretation, unless you are literally illiterate.
Because being able to read and write means you are fuzzy on terminology?
The bible's a complicated piece of work that two people rarely agree completely on. English is complicated too, as are any of the languages it was in on its way here.
The idea that biblical poll questions are fuzzy, even varying amounts of fuzzy for various people seems fair enough to me, just like rounding compounding throughout a calculation.
Emily - Aug 04, 2006 10:53:56 am PDT #694 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I'm not actually trying to get you guys to write my application (well... not the whole thing, anyway), but what would you say are some qualities that set me apart from other applicants? I've got "wider academic experience and thus sympathy for people who think they're not good at math" and "Dude, I totally LOVE MATH! Math and me 4EVAH!!!" But I could use at least one more quality, maybe two.