Meiland Essay Final Draft

Satoshi Takizawa
Professor James
ARW Section AI
12 June 2007

Meiland essay final draft

Today many people go college. But, what do they go to college for? Is it useful for you? Students may answer that it is for preparation of a job, or that he wants to learn new facts. However, Karl Fisch who created the ‘Shift Happens’ stated that college work is useless. He pointed out two reasons. First, nowadays by information having advanced, circumstances in the world change very quickly. So, half of what students learn in first year will have gone out of date by their third year. Learning latest things of the time is useless for students. Second, by changing of the world situation, the jobs that now you want to become will be not exist when you graduate from a college. Therefore, Karl Fisch thinks that there is no reason to study in a college and the college work is useless. Do you agree with him? I don’t agree with his opinion. There are two reasons for this.

First, it can be true that a college education is useless since what you learn first year will have gone out of date by your third year. However, a student learns in college not only the facts which are the latest then, but also how to think about things and how to generate a new idea by himself. In ‘College Thinking’ Derek Bok, who is the president of Harvard states “every professor knows that much of the information conveyed in the classroom will soon be forgotten. The willingness to continuing teaching rests on an act of faith that a student will retain a useful conceptual framework, a helpful approach to the subject, a valuable method of analysis, or some other intangible residue of intellectual value.” And Meiland says “professors believe their courses to be worthwhile anyway because in courses students learn ways of thinking that stay with them even if they forget particular content. In order to learn how to think, you must think about something, about some particular content. But the content is not the main point. Much of the content that you are taught in college will be outmoded or discarded anyway in ten or twenty years. Learning intellectual skills and attitudes is far more important”. Therefore it is not important to learn the latest facts. And students will be able to know and create a new idea by himself even after his graduation from college.

Second, students can learn many subjects in college. There are a lot of students who don’t decide what they want to become in the future yet, and look for an occupation that they want to become. For such students it is necessary to look various subjects. For example, my friend goes to college because he wants to find what he is interested in. He spent his junior high school and high school life with doing club activities. So he didn't have time to find it. For a person like him it is useful to have much time to learn something in college before taking a occupation. And this is profit for students who already decide what they want to become. Learning various subjects makes it possible to them to look the world from many aspects. Because information advanced, today’s society becomes more complicated. So, all work needs the person who can look from not a specific aspect but various aspects. Therefore, learning many subjects in college is useful for every student.

But someone may agree that college work is useless. Because if students hear that the work which you want to become won’t exist when they graduate, their motivations are lost. For example, I study in this college because I want to learn about my future job. And I can study hard because I have a clear occupation that I want to become. So if my future job will not be when I graduate, there is no purpose that I study here. Therefore, if a job that students want to become will not exist in their future, college work is useless.

In conclusion, I think college work is useful because it change student’s mind and makes it possible that they look from many viewpoints. There are many things students should learn in college. Furthermore, all jobs want the persons who can look from many viewpoints. Therefore, I hope you understand what you should learn as a university student, and I want you to spend meaningful student life.

Work Cited

Meiland, Jack W. College Thinking: How to Get the Best Out of College. New York: New American Library, 1981. (The ELP Reader, 2006.7-10)
Karl Fisch. Shift Happens(http://arwicu.wetpaint.com/page/AI+Meiland+Essay+Preparation)

Meiland Essay First Draft

Satoshi Takizawa
Professor James
ARW Section AI
6 June 2007

Meiland essay first draft

Today many people go college. But, what do they go to college for? Is it useful for you? Students may answer that it is for preparation of a job, or that he wants to learn new facts. However, Karl Fi who created the ‘Shift Happens’ stated that college work is useless. He pointed out two reasons. First, nowadays by information having advanced, circumstances in the world change very quickly. So, half of what students learn in first year will have gone out of date by their third year. Learning latest things of the time is useless for students. Second, by changing of the world situation, the jobs that now you want to become will be not exist when you graduate from a college. Therefore, Karl Fi thinks that there is no reason to study in a college and the college work is useless. Do you agree with him? I don’t agree with his opinion. There are two reasons for this.

First, it can be true that a college education is useless since what you learn first year will have gone out of date by your third year. However, a student learns in college not only the facts which are the latest then, but also how to think about things and how to generate a new idea by himself. In ‘College Thinking’ Derek Bok, who is the president of Harvard states “every professor knows that much of the information conveyed in the classroom will soon be forgotten. The willingness to continue teaching rests on an act of faith that a student will retain a useful conceptual framework, a helpful approach to the subject, a valuable method of analysis, or some other intangible residue of intellectual value.” And Meiland says “professors believe their courses to be worthwhile anyway because in courses students learn ways of thinking that stay with them even if they forget particular content. In order to learn how to think, you must think about something, about some particular content. But the content is not the main point. Much of the content that you are taught in college will be outmoded or discarded anyway in ten or twenty years. Learning intellectual skills and attitudes is far more important”. Therefore it is not important to learn the latest facts. And students will be able to know and create a new idea by himself even after his graduation from college.

Second, students don't go to college only to learn specifically about your future job. College work doesn’t exist only to teach a skill to take your future job.

But someone may agree that college work is useless. Because if students hear that the work which you want to become won’t exist when they graduate, their motivations are lost. For example, I study in this college because I want to learn about my future job. And I can study hard because I have a clear occupation that I want to become. So if my future job will not be when I graduate, there is no purpose that I study here. Therefore, if a job that students want to become will not exist in their future, college work is useless.

In conclusion, I think college work is useful because it change student’s mind and makes it possible that they look from many viewpoints. There are many things students should learn in college. Furthermore, all jobs want the persons who can look from many viewpoints. Therefore, I hope you understand what you should learn as a university student, and I want you to spend meaningful student life.

Work Cited

Meiland, Jack W. College Thinking: How to Get the Best Out of College. New York: New American Library, 1981. (The ELP Reader, 2006.7-10)

Meiland essay: paragraph three

Meiland essay: paragraph three
I agree that college work is useless. Because if students hear that the work which you want to become won’t exist when they graduate, their motivations are lost. For example, I study in this college because I want to learn about my future job. And I can study hard because I have a clear occupation that I want to become. So if my future job will not be when I graduate, there is no purpose that I study here. Therefore, if a job that students want to become will not exist in their future, college work is useless.

Meiland essay:paragraph two

Second, students don't go to college only to learn about your future job. College work doesn’t exist only to teach a skill needed for your future job.

Meiland essay paragraph one

First, it can be true that a college education is useless since what you learn first year will have gone out of date by your third year. However, a student learns in college not only the facts which are the latest then, but also how to think about things and how to generate a new idea by himself. In ‘College Thinking’ Derek Bok, who is the president of Harvard states “every professor knows that much of the information conveyed in the classroom will soon be forgotten. The willingness to continue teaching rests on an act of faith that students will retain a useful conceptual framework, a helpful approach to the subject, a valuable method of analysis, or some other intangible residue of intellectual value.” And Meiland says “professors believe their courses to be worthwhile anyway because in courses students learn ways of thinking that stay with them even if they forget particular content. In order to learn how to think, you must think about something, about some particular content. But the content is not the main point. Much of the content that you are taught in college will be outmoded or discarded anyway in ten or twenty years. Learning intellectual skills and attitudes is far more important”. Therefore it is not important to learn the latest facts. And students will be able to know and create a new idea by himself even after his graduation from college.

Satoshi Takizawa
Professor James

ARW Section AI
23 May 2007

Fluency journal “Cigarette”

Today, a campaign against smoking is done considerably. Outside, many cities prohibit smoker from walking with smoking. And inside, a smoking place is separated. Also in ICU, a movement to exclude smoking places has been done. But, what makes smokers so bad impression? How much is it bad? I would like to point out two points about this. First point is a health phase. A cigarette contains about 200 toxic chemicals and 40 carcinogens. The most dangerous disease is cancer. Smokers are liable to get cancer about 3 to 33 times as much as nonsmokers. It is said that smoking one cigarette shortens the life expectancy about 5 minutes. Smokes damage not only smoker but also nonsmoker. Passive smoking is worse than direct smoking. However, I think that nonsmokers don't breathe all passive smokes. So I think of how much passive smokes harms nonsmokers in doubt. Furthermore, smoking by a woman who is pregnant causes premature birth and disabled person delivery. Next point is an economical phase. Japanese economy gains about 2,800,000,000,000 yen by tobacco tax and so on, but Japanese economy gives a loss of 5,600,000,000,000 yen by medical cost of smokers and fire extinguishing costs of a fire by a cigarette. So the deduction is 2,800,000,000,000 yen damage. By these reasons, we can conclude it that there is the great damage in smoking. Now, it becomes a problem that a cigarette company should take responsibility for a person narrowing life by oversmoking of a cigarette. But people make too much fuss. For example, I try to compare it with a shrink age of life by a death of a motorcycle. About 10,000 people lose their life by an accident by motorcycle a year. This is considerable amount. If it is so, a motorcycle company should warn it and should take responsibility for a person of death by accident. However, an individual takes responsibility. So smokers should take responsibility for their health. Harm to the human of a cigarette is very clear, therefore, cigarette should disappear from the world.

(333 words)

Fluency journal "Menus of ICU restaurant"

I introduce ICU’s restaurant. ICU’s restaurant is called “Gakusyoku” or “Gakki” by students. It can accommodate about 300 people. It fills with people at lunch time. There are about six menus that change day by day. Besides it, curry, chinese noodle, and salad bar are always in menu. Salad bar is popular because we can choose what we like. The most popular menu is Chicken Tatsuta. But in general the price is high. We heard that ICU’s restaurant is the best of the ranking of Waseda Gakusyoku Kenkyuukai. But do you think so? Isn’t there any restaurant that is more delicious? So we investigated the dining hall of Aoyama Gakuin University. It is very large. There are about 30 menus, and some of which are titled unique names like “Omotesandou”, “Millefeuille Katsudon” and “Arbitrary Lunch of Chef” And price is lower than that of ICU. Moreover, the dishes are cooked with much care and the taste is very good. Then we found an interesting paper-“Gakusyoku Ranking”- there. It is a research done by Asahi newspaper. It says Aogaku’s dining hall is No.1. In that ranking, ICU’s dining hall is out of the 10th. In fact, Aogaku’s dining is synthetically better than that of ICU. That is why ICU’s restaurant is not No.1 of all Japanese university’s .

(217 wards)