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I Am Not One For LJ Cuts...
Oct. 25th, 2006 01:46 pm...but documenting everything that's happened in the past week has just taken two and a half thousand words. I know I shouldn't, but...
( Last Monday's Warhammer... )
( The Magic Circle... )
( Mum's Show... )
( Messing Up The Unicorns... )
( Bat Out Of Hell III, Reviewed... )
( UberMadness & Missing Emma... )
And finally...
BP's application form has some open-ended questions on it, designed to allow people to display their personal abilities in their own way. One of these questions was thus:
"Please tell us about a time when you had to solve a complex problem. What was the problem? What steps did you take to identify a solution? What was the outcome?"
I reprint my answer here, because I had a realisation while considering what to write, and what I eventually came out with is worthy of a post all to itself:
"In answering this question, I have been caused to look back over my life, and consider what I have done. Various problems have suggested themselves, and been discounted on accounts of lack of gravitas or having not been solved only by myself.
I have considered my postgraduate career at Bath, and how I had to balance professional work with taking a part in University society and letting neither suffer as a result. I have considered my undergraduate career at Bristol, with all the trials and tribulations of creating new friendships and dealing with being away from home for the first time. I have also considered my school career, and enduring the problems of growing up alongside those who measured achievement on lesser or greater scales than myself, in different areas.
As a result of taking these steps, I have managed to come to the conclusion that there have been no problems of note in my life that I have had to solve entirely by myself. I have always had access to someone, or something, that I have been able to work with to achieve an outcome that was successful.
As a result of this conclusion, I feel considerably less alone than I have been drawn to feel at times in my life, and will find happiness in such a thought for quite some time to come. For this, I thank you."
And I thank you, too.
( Last Monday's Warhammer... )
( The Magic Circle... )
( Mum's Show... )
( Messing Up The Unicorns... )
( Bat Out Of Hell III, Reviewed... )
( UberMadness & Missing Emma... )
And finally...
BP's application form has some open-ended questions on it, designed to allow people to display their personal abilities in their own way. One of these questions was thus:
"Please tell us about a time when you had to solve a complex problem. What was the problem? What steps did you take to identify a solution? What was the outcome?"
I reprint my answer here, because I had a realisation while considering what to write, and what I eventually came out with is worthy of a post all to itself:
"In answering this question, I have been caused to look back over my life, and consider what I have done. Various problems have suggested themselves, and been discounted on accounts of lack of gravitas or having not been solved only by myself.
I have considered my postgraduate career at Bath, and how I had to balance professional work with taking a part in University society and letting neither suffer as a result. I have considered my undergraduate career at Bristol, with all the trials and tribulations of creating new friendships and dealing with being away from home for the first time. I have also considered my school career, and enduring the problems of growing up alongside those who measured achievement on lesser or greater scales than myself, in different areas.
As a result of taking these steps, I have managed to come to the conclusion that there have been no problems of note in my life that I have had to solve entirely by myself. I have always had access to someone, or something, that I have been able to work with to achieve an outcome that was successful.
As a result of this conclusion, I feel considerably less alone than I have been drawn to feel at times in my life, and will find happiness in such a thought for quite some time to come. For this, I thank you."
And I thank you, too.
