December 2010
5 posts
The first time I ever played Monopoly the right...
It was fun.
I guess it wasn’t perfectly right, because we played the “pay 200 dollars for income tax no matter what who cares if you’re really poor or that you start with 1500 dollars” and “put all taxed money in middle and collect if you land on free parking because it makes a useless square awesome” way.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
—Phillipians 2:8
I am always very much wrong-footed when I talk to...
His response to my reflection:
Thank you Jonathan. I hope you remember and are true to struggling to achieve what you write—you will never get there—on the list of the seven deadly sins, pride is the one we least learn to harness, and in fact, spend a life time fighting—but it is in that specific struggle that we come closest to enlightenment.
What the…
Called out by Dean Laude
I got called out by my professor (who incidentally is also a dean) for not doing good work. Thus, I had to write a reflection for him on why I turned in such poor work. The first paragraph of my reflection is here, so I do not forget this experience. (For background knowledge, he previously cornered me into agreeing with him that I was “elite.” - he is quite the dean.)
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