The University Education: A Religious ExperienceEssay Preview: The University Education: A Religious ExperienceReport this essayIf I wanted to do an over-view of my thoughts about the university being related to religion for a layman who doesnt understand anything beneath the surface, then my first paper would be a success. Putting myself in an educated persons position of having to read that as a college essay, I would be insulted. Of course this is a post-English 220 thought. Ive opened up to find myself more since then. Im not saying that have found my perfect style. Ive found a new style in myself other than the “Official Style”.
Im writing for you in a close version of the “O.S.” because this is an explanation about my own writing and I feel that this is the best way to *explain*. Dont worry, by the end Im sure that Ill have fallen away.
Ive taken a close look at this paper of mine entitled _The University Education: A Religious Experience_ and found that my thoughts about the metaphor havent changed a lot. Im the type of person who finds little religious quirks in everything, though (A result of: accepting evolution; seeing the Bible as a bunch of parables and tall tales – including Genesis and the entire New Testament; reading Don Delillos _White Noise_ , Heinleins _A Stranger in a Strange Land_, Baudelaires “Voyage”; rebelling my over-religious, over-hypocritic mother; oh ya. Moliere and Chaucer; learning about different cultures and religions; etc., etc.). I like comparing people and their actions, myself included, to Christian rituals and events. When it comes to the university as a religion, this comparing multiplies because so many of us here take our education as a life or death matter. And I think it should be. Of course there are those who are hypocritic in the university life – dont worry they get a few second chances and are then abandoned. Im on one of my second chances.
Yes, I feel the same way about my metaphor as I did when I wrote this introduction paper. No, I dont like paper because if I were to truly put effort into the it now I would not have written it that way. My style is much different now (A result of this class and my new interest in fiction writing from Eng. 218). I like to lay things between the lines – let the reader work a little. Im not a combination of Elliot and Pound, nor do I intend to be. Im a Beau Jay Seeger who likes to spit some reality into fiction, let the reader taste it if they want. If they dont, they can plug their nose and swallow it anyway. If I were to write this paper now, it would be written as a story about a university student or faculty member coming to the realization that they have no religious beliefs. Only, throughout the story passages like this could be seen:
This is what a lot of people think of as being so the issue is
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A lot of people think that it is the religion itself that is responsible for the rise of the modern science, as we know it. That’s what they want to explain.