Five Minutes

By Jonathan Lam on 05/24/16

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Five minutes. A speakout. A blog post. Five minutes. What can you really do?

Well, I can't vent out all my frustration and motivate the public and use the rhetorical devices and practice well a five-minute Sophomore Speakout. I couldn't express the extreme frustration I face, the anger building up with me when I see cheaters get away with it, when I see people finding free answers, when I see people wasting their lives on video games. It's simply too difficult to put into words. And, certainly for me, it's too difficult to put into bodily expression.

And what of that intense joy I feel when I can learn something? When I discover something new, something so intuitive that eluded my grasp, something that tickles my internal reasoning machine? How can I convince the class that I am not crazy, that I can become a hater of English to one who truly believes that I am inspired by our classroom? How can I give to them the joy that I feel when I pick up just a tiny little trick, a trick that is special to me and no one else?

And it seems that it simply cannot be done. Not in five minutes. Not in a year. Not ever.

And yet we go on, writing books and giving speeches, attempting to convey the unconveyable. We try, often to no avail.

And so I guess the only advice, the best advice to give, is a method to make the feeling theirs. A way to let them experience it for themselves.

And whoopsies, time's up! Five minutes really isn't enough!