<p>its to write a letter to your first year adviser, and the last bullet asks you ask 3 questions to dr paul farmer, featured in moutains beyond mountains written by tracy kidder.</p>
<p>problem, i didnt get a chance to read the book yet</p>
<p>anyone thats read it, what are some questions you would like to ask dr. paul farmer?</p>
<p>Wow. You aren't even being graded on this and you're trying to cheat. </p>
<p>Google Farmer, learn a little about his work, and construct your questions from that if you must.</p>
<p>wow how do you mess up before you even get to college? haha</p>
<p>I think if you're planning to do something like, I dunno, ask other people to "help" with your homework or whatever, it's not terribly wise to do it in a completely unprotected, unlocked public online environment.</p>
<p>Just saying.</p>
<p>well this is one of those boring intro letters you write to your adviser about yourself.... i hate these dumb impersonal introductions and wish our first interaction was when i got to colgate and met face to face.....</p>
<p>Weird. I've never ever heard of anything like that.</p>
<p>But my school is all about the beauracracy and lines and them avoiding having to deal with you as much as possible.</p>
<p>Why not just tell the truth and say you haven't read the book yet?</p>
<p>"Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?"</p>
<p>Do you go to Stanford? incoming freshman are required to read that book also...maybe ask someone who will be attending there</p>
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<p>i'm guessing he's going to colgate..</p>
<p>Right...I didn't read the whole thread =)</p>
<p>I've read the book, if you have any questions ask me :)</p>
<p>honestly if it were my letter i'd be honest and say I didn't read the book.</p>
<p>We had to read a book prior to my freshman year and we had this official luncheon to sit down and discuss the book and we all got broken into groups and a faculty member joined each table. of course my group got the dean of the college and I still hadn't read more than the first chapter of the book. i told him the first chapter was very dry and that i didn't think the book was suitable for the project they were trying to use it for. my opinion was listened to and he even said he fell asleep three times while reading the book. :) the rest of our group sighed in relief and half of them admitted they hadn't finished it either.</p>
<p>Tufts freshmen are supposed to read it too</p>
<p>just tell the truth if you're going to be with this advisor for the next year and half. Start off with the right foot- s/he will be your lifeline to anything that you need at Colgate. I've used my advisor for quite few important situations that I couldn't have handled with her- I'll be in debt to her when I graduate! :)</p>
<p>uhh I'm not a huge fan of Paul Farmer, he spoke at our school and is really full of himself. Although he does some good work, its just his ego is way up there.</p>
<p>Anyway, wikipedia should give you accurate information considering im sure he wrote it himself.</p>
<p>Hi, Dr. Paul Farmer visited my school (Emmanuel College in Boston, MA) to talk about the book Mountains Beyond Mountains. I just thought I would tell you that he has an excellent sense of humor, so your questions don't need to be dryer than a bone. He knew students were not going to be able to sit and listen to him recite the whole book and explain it, so he cracked jokes that added to his "story-telling". Very nice guy.</p>
<p>Great start to a distinguished college career. You don't do your first reading assignment, then you post on a large public discussion board to find ways out of your bind.</p>
<p>This reminds me of what a friend of mine did during pre-freshman year summer. Our advisor sent us a big packet full of information and instructions related to scheduling. One of the pieces of paper was a purple "Maze Research Form" that had a maze on it, and instructions to solve the maze. However, buried deep in the instructions on scheduling was: "By the way, DO NOT solve the Maze Research Form. Just write your name at the top and send it in along with everything else. Do not make any other marks on it." My friend didn't read that part, solved the maze, and then later heard via CC that he wasn't supposed to. So he whited out his solution, photocopied the thing twice, then photocopied it onto purple paper. Our advisor noticed the different paper and laughed at him. It was great.</p>
<p>Moral: advisors are fairly smart; if you make up questions without having read the book, they'll probably figure it out. I'd say honesty is the best policy here.</p>