a waffle analysis

Ever hear the phrase "scratch beneath the surface"? As we discuss complex characters, that is what comes up in my mind. Often I find myself in the pitfall of surface reading, but learning to analyze complex characters is one step out of the pitfall. Humanity is so complex; we have our conscious, subconscious, but also our unconscious. With college essays, we've had to delve deep, introspecting, trying to dive deep underneath the iceberg to reach our unconscious thoughts that represent our growth, epiphany, piths.  Through our building community initiative, we expose parts of ourselves that may not be obvious on the surface level. As I wrote my statements, I started to recall a memorable sermon I attended about the Johari window. Although the focus then was for religious purposes, it is also extremely applicable to analyzing a character/person and receiving feedback. The window is a matrix of four selves: open, blind, hidden, and unknown. Currently, we are exploring the o...

This week was a thick week of introspection and soul-searching; late at night, I scour through the files of memories hidden in the back of my brain to find that one moment of epiphany. Now that it's ingrained in me, however, I seem to search for epiphanies in my daily life—or at least, some new understanding of life in each and every day. I don't look much to the positives each day, as the hours seem to bucket as one, with no more sense as to what day of the week today is and much less what date it is (for me, the days are essentially A, B, and weekend). Always wanting to take the advantage to look more at the glass as half full, I believe a great new way to end the day is by reflecting positively, locating that epiphany of each day. Although each day doesn't have a large epiphany necessarily, there are definitely moments of new insight that I have every day. And by exaggerating our daily successes and findings as epiphanies, we can definitely feel better about ourselves an...