sell out

This is an opportunity for you to showcase your creativity, draw on your personal experience and reflect on a socioeconomic issue that has personal meaning for you.

Oh wait. Don't be fooled. Not even a little. They don't really want to know. And you aren't supposed to want to tell them. This is the well-rehearsed dance everyone else seems to know the steps to.
Now, there's a metaphor that gets me.

The last few times I demonstrated creativity, or at the very least, works which didn't smart of cliches, weren't exactly rewarding. Original thoughts are too difficult for young, underpaid TAs to plod through. 95 well-thought out assignments? Ha, that would keep the TAs awake during those long lecture hours on static Philips curves and what-not.
Hell, I am no fan of Ayn Rand. Wasn't she asking everyone to conform to non-conformance - oh, with an anthem to boot? But, digressions apart, a younger me thought the learning process was about being encouraged to think. A few downright insulting grades later, I am no longer fresh-faced. No longer wide-eyed. Now, I am willing to do the dance.

So what should it be? The Jaipur Foot initiative? Aravind Eye Hospital? Micro-financing?
Oh, I've got a good one.
How about corporate social responsibility? Imagine the number of college-approved HBR articles I could reference in perfectly italicized, scrupulous APA citations.

It's another day.

start

Much like someone who fathered many bastardy children, I have lost count of the space-on-the-web things I tried to get started and then quickly abandoned because of laziness and an inability to articulate.I could tell myself that this one is it. But really, what difference would it make.