Student Profile: Tyrone
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Up Close and Personal:
Being in the process of still completing university, I am always learning new things from the people around me.
To not worry about what other people are thinking of you is to truly ‘be yourself.’
I believe the purpose of life is to do what you love and love what you do. My parents taught me that by making me realize that my goal in life shouldn’t be pleasing others.
I would love to be able to spend my life being creative, and creating art that will inspire others to create art one hundred times better than my own.
My parents have been a huge influence on how to live my life, but my experiences with God have given my life direction and meaning.
I actually found university liberating; I was able to be more reliant on myself and was given a fresh start in a new place.
What did I like best about university? 3 am on thursday nights.
What did I like least about university? 8:30 am on friday mornings.
In university I learned to spend your time with people who challenge you, and are willing to tell you when you are being a jerk.
I learned in first year that I wanted to be an English major, just by comparing how different faculties wanted essays written, and English essays seemed to ‘work’ for me best.
What was the best thing about being a student in my major? The wealth of ‘applicable’ knowledge.
What was the hardest thing about being a student in my major? The introvertedness of 80 percent of people in the faculty.
Words of advice? Don’t approach material objectively, because the point of reading, is that we are to bring the text as close to our inner being as possible, and we are to understand what we like, what we don’t like, what we can change about ourselves, and what we shouldn’t change about ourselves.
I’m most proud of a short EP that I recorded in my bedroom last summer. I made about 15 copies and gave them to my friends.
My hero is Soren Kirkegaard; he taught me what it means to be trampled by a herd of geese.
I would love to meet Socrates. I’m sure he would tell me how dumb I am. Which would be cool.
My room is like a Zen garden; it may look like a mess, but everything is where it is meant to be without to much thought or conceptualization.
I enjoy Irish Hurling (Just Kidding).
My favourite types of music are Indie Rock and Shoegazing.
I would consider dying for a real Donair, straight from the Nova Deli.
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