<p>Carry around “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran </p>
<p>Insightful stuff.</p>
<p>^That ranks highest among the very little poetry I do read. IT’S BRILLIANT.</p>
<p>Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
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You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.</p>
<p>Read, and be amazed.</p>
<p>^I’m glad you know it!</p>
<p>That children excerpt is by far one of my favourites</p>
<p>I’m going to print and bind together the entirety of this mess - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/749102-ban-person-above-you-game.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/749102-ban-person-above-you-game.html</a> , slip a Kafka dust jacket around it, and revel in the fact that I’m killing brain cells and looking intelligent at the same time.</p>
<p>^lol definitely. I tried that once with a frivolous fantasy novel on the inside and Atlas Shrugged looped around on the outside and…got discovered by my seventh grade English teacher haha.</p>
<p>But really? Anything by Stephen Hawking. That guy is a beast. :)</p>
<p>@ksarmand I wasn’t saying it as an insult to exchange students (I love exchange students, like the German girl at my school, she is awesome, plus want to be an exchange student), dictionary’s just don’t make you look smart. They make you look like English is your second language. I should know.</p>
<p>^Exaggeration, my dear. I was hoping to provoke a violent response. ;)</p>
<p>I always find that philosophical texts tend to make the reader seem ultra-intelligent. So perhaps something like A Theory of Justice by John Rawls would do the trick? Or if you want something even older than that you could always go seek out dear old Plato.</p>
<p>Lol @ insecure people that waste money on books that they don’t read to look smart.</p>
<p>^ we need books and monocles in order to get good grades by looking like we know what we’re doing</p>
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<p>If I haven’t heard of it, it won’t make me look intelligent :b</p>
<p>Just about anything from the top shelf of my grandparents’ bookshelf…</p>
<p>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Kierkegaard, Plato, Aristotle, Kant</p>
<p>OK, I am going to go find poetry by Kahlil Gibran now. 8]</p>
<p>big rudin.</p>
<p>Kahlil Gibran is amazing.
Quoting Shopaholic: Carry some magazines bout finance and/or politics. Then even if you talk about the most frivolous subjects, people will regard you as an intellect who has broad interests. :D</p>