Another Applicant's Introduction

[Don Price]

I recently filled out the application questionaire and, I have to say I actually enjoyed doing it. I love reading, writing, and, most of all, thinking. I'm a sophmore in college, an enterprise management major, and an honor role student. I'm creative and imaginative, and there's nothing I love more than getting an idea and using it to me. Some people think I'm a sneaky, clever sort. Maybe I am. Maybe I'm just smarter than those people.

I'm new to EVE, but I'm enjoying learning how it all works. I spent a few years playing WOW and eventually left it because my brain was turning into mush. Eve, particularly the economic aspect of EVE, is much more stimulating. When I saw Taggart on the recruitment channel I was mildly interested. When I learned more I was really excited. My brother has been stuck in a controlling, tax-heavy corporation with some real idiots in it. I informed him immediatly of my find. Our personal views are pretty darn close to Taggart's and I hadn't dared to believe there even was such a corporation. I know I'm younger (19) than most people in Taggart, but I usually identify more with older people anyway. I may not have experience, but I can confidently say that I have tons of potential.

[Kushan]

Welcome to the forums. I look forward to reading your application.

[Oleksandr]

Welcome to the forums. If you like thinking, try this quote up for size:

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/thought-thinking.html

Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think—not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind’ and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict “It is.” Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say “It is,” you are refusing to say “I am.” By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: ‘Who am I to know?’—he is declaring: “Who am I to live?”

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

P.S. This is from Atlas Shrugged.