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July 24, 2004

Northwestern University must believe in torture

To apply for admission to Northwestern University, students must write a 'personal statement'.

... essay questions -- we call them personal statements -- that will appear on the 2005-06 freshman application. You will be asked to respond to one of the four topics with an essay of 400-500 words.

Here is the 3rd question - you can go read the others on your own:

3. According to astronomer Carl Sagan, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." What unknown would you like to see revealed in your lifetime? Why is this of personal importance?

Please, tell me - how on earth can anyone know what unknown thing can be known? I mean, if it is unknown - we just don't know.

If we don't know it exists, how can we possibly know that we don't know about it?

I found this link looking at one of Harvey's old posts about his bad experience with llamas, by the way.

Update: SuperSon says I'm thinking too much. He also said that is why he didn't apply for Northwestern.

Posted by Beth at July 24, 2004 09:20 AM