I belong in a domain that is at once stable and unrestricted. I tread in a realm that is both wild and serene. Like the Chinese expression for an environment's balance, I am of the "peaceful chaos." My ideal realm is full of safety and security, but also allows me to explore my limits and push myself on various fronts. I reside in an environment in which laughter and joyful energy permeate the air...
The entirety of the college process has left me feeling disenchanted, insignificant and small. In general, I feel colleges exist more for themselves than they do for their students. Freire’s idea of the banking concept is in full bloom – harvesting students for professors to deposit as much “essential knowledge” into the students’ “receptacles” as humanly possible. These brains and bodies are the school’s spores they propel into the world in hopes of returning something (anything!) significant enough to bolster the university’s reputation...
The Sound of Static
In a particular basement, buried under a brick house in Allentown, Pennsylvania, there was a laboratory with transistors, vacuum tubes, old radio parts, radio crystals, and even plumbing supplies strewn everywhere, across every surface. The smell was musty and dust covered most of the equipment in the dimly lit closet that my grandfather called his ham shack. As a child I was intrigued as to the purpose of the mysterious equipment...
Growing up, I was always searching for someplace to hide. Which is not to say that I had anything particularly terrible to hide from. If anything, it was the opposite. I was aware from an early age that I had a very nice home, evident in the cozy library with beautiful, old-fashioned wooden paneling and the second living room that nobody actually lived in except me, my piano, and the occasional dog...
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