<p>can someone explain this quote? i didn't quite understand the analogy.</p>
<p>lol i would also like to know. im not much of a poet</p>
<p>let me bump this then</p>
<p>well, did you choose it space?
i hope not</p>
<p>i didn't understand it either, lol. and i asked my counselor, who's a native speaker and a graduate of oberlin (got into harvard, but turned it down for georgetown, then transfered to oberlin...). he said sth. like the questions are like stones, "cool and round". you can't break them. yet they are in your pocket. you can feel the weight, and you always have to deal with them...lol.</p>
<p>it's poetry, guys.
you can't answer these questions, they become like familiar weights in your hands. you can only get a certain feeling for these questions, for they are unyielding and can't be answered for certain.</p>
<p>so here you have it, RD applicants. pm me to say thank you.</p>
<p>lol.. thank god i didnt pick it... couldnt they find a better analogy?</p>
<p>Well, I already applied Early Decision so I suppose I don't have too much to loose in helping you RD applicants out:</p>
<p>The thing about stones is that they are not naturally smooth. Stones are originally rocks, formed in riverbeds when water flows over them causing them to be smooth. Stones, like tough problems, are rendered smooth by your efforts. They are also "cool" and "un-yielding" -- that is, they are unwilling to talk and give up their secrets. Also stones are solid and cannot easily be studied by cracking them open (just like opening a Rubik's cube wouldn't really help you solve it, for instance). Finally, stones can pique our interest, causing us to carry them around like a tough problem.</p>
<p>Anyways, I think it is a most beautiful analogy. Let me know if this helps anybody.</p>
<p>...and this is why I chose the nations quote.</p>
<p>whoa... very well said langley.</p>
<p>See this is why I took the easy out and wrote about a random quote that fit one of the essays I had already written</p>
<p>I really like that quote. Usually I'm not one for poetry but I think it's nice and pretty good to shape an essay around.</p>