Siddhartha Questions

So I've been searching for questions for about twenty minutes now and all the questions I found are either on someone else's blog already, or they are so basic and based on the plot and text that they aren't exactly "AP" material or worth my time or yours to even read let alone post about.

Hacking My Education

Today reminded me of a few things:
1. There's a lot of things about the way high school works that I don't like.
2. Waking up early sucks
3. I didn't really have a "break" because I was still at school for four hours nearly every day for wrestling and traveled every weekend to compete so I'm coming back to school more tired than I did when I left.
Today's conversation on Siddhartha was interesting and I learned a lot about Brahmins and finding your inner peace, but I made a connection that I think most students did that we didn't really talk about. What Siddhartha is going through is what we are all going through. we've spent our whole lives in school and now most of us are getting accepted to colleges, finishing up highschool, preparing to leave our families.. so it's at the point now where we are all feeling "ok.. now what.. what do I do and why do I want to do it..." It's time for us to start our lives and it's scary and exciting at the same time which is what we discussed was how Siddhartha was feeling. The piece really showed why seniors get senioritis.

Harvard Interview Video

Today I was interviewed by a Harvard Alum as part of the application process and I was instructed to bring pictures and projects that I had taken or made that represent my life or give insight to who I am or what I do. So instead of being boring and showing her a few pictures I decided to make a video so that I could share my life and my skills at making videos, so I would share it with the open source learning network. The interviewer liked it a lot so clearly remixing makes things more interesting...

Final Review Reflection

I used to think that every story or piece of literature was completely different and most were unrelated. Throughout this semester I learned that two pieces as different as "The Right to Your Opinion" and Hamlet could have so much in common and relate to each other in so many ways.

The conversation we had as a class on Thursday was extraordinarily beneficial in relating basically everything we learned this semester into one 40 minute conversation. Hearing everyones' different opinions and why they think in that way was helpful in making additional connections for myself. I saw stories and made connections in ways I hadn't thought of before.

I wish I could've been in class for the second half of that discussion today, but I am writing this from a Hotel room in Rialto with Noah after a long day of wrestling and another long day ahead of us tomorrow.

Keep being awesome dplit-comp

Poem remix

I sat down to draw a remix for the poem "summons" but then I remembered I am terrible at drawing so I got frustrated and made this paper airplane instead #opsl

While this may just seem like a way for me to try to get out of an assignment and in a way it was but now that I think about it the airplane goes with the poem. The author presents a desire to see all kinds of new things instead of doing the same old same old (sleeping). Everyone knows that airplanes go all over and see things and I would much rather create something like this than do an assignment because I love building things and creating tangible things people can see and enjoy. 

Intro to Poetry

1. The title "Summons" has great importance and relevancy to the poem because the poem reflects the authors desire for a "call to adventure." He wants to be summoned to see the world and all kinds of great things.
2. The tone of the poem shows the author as bored with regular life and a desire to get out and see and do things, and his desire to be adventurous.
3. This poem resonates deeply with me. I greatly enjoy traveling and seeing all kinds of cool stuff. When I was abroad this summer one of the jokes the group I was with had was "I can sleep when I'm dead" because we were all so exhausted from staying up so late seeing the sites but yet we still woke up early and went to bed late again.
4. The poem shifts about a third of the way through from telling someone to keep him awake and make him go outside to why he wants to go outside, what he wants to see and do.
5. Go see the world.

Hamlet essay

            The quote “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t,” is extraordinarily important to the theme and tone of Hamlet by Shakespeare, demonstrating how Shakespeare truly intends Hamlet to be seen, and comments on the “two facedness” of people in general.

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t,” is an extraordinarily important quote stated by Polonius in the first third of the play. Hamlet is seen by most characters as being absolutely mad, and Polonius is no exception, however, there comes a point where Polonius realizes, that Hamlet may have some kind of agenda. Polonius is right. At this point in the play Shakespeare wants the audience to understand that Hamlet knows what he is doing. Hamlet isn’t being indecisive, he has a plan that he is carefully carrying out. By having Polonius recognize this Shakespeare is trying to leave little room for interpretation. If even Polonius, who is often completely clueless, can recognize Hamlet’s agenda, than Shakespeare meant for Hamlet to act crazy while he really has a plan.

Hamlet acting crazy when he really isn’t demonstrates an important theme that is relevant throughout the play: people aren’t always who they say they are. Claudius acts like a good king who recently lost his brother, when he really is a power hungry murderer. Hamlet acts like a deranged teen whose father died when he is really plotting revenge. “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t” clearly demonstrates that people act one way when they truly are a completely different person.

By showing what Shakespeare truly means throughout the play, and contributing to the theme, the quote “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t” is important to a true and meaningful understanding of the play Hamlet.