By 2007 I was in college, writing answers instead of essays. Two of them are still in my notebook.

The first was on a writer's view of education: creative learning versus knowledge-based learning. Three years after my guide-book essays, I wrote this:

Handwritten college answer on creativity and knowledge-based education, dated 3 December 2007.
My answer on creativity and knowledge, 3 December 2007.

"creativity is not something which can be byhearted but it has to be our own ideas (individual)."

I'm not sure I'd learned that lesson yet. The example I used still makes me smile: in a museum, children "had transformed simple paper lunch bags into a waterfall with flying fish."

And I ended it in my usual way, with both sides and a big philosophy:

"Finally it is knowledge which sharpens the mind & expand point of views, which prepares an individual to face life in more global way, to accept challenge, competition."

The second was on a poem in our textbook about women and discrimination. I can't remember which poem it was:

Handwritten college answer about a poem on gender discrimination.
My answer on a poem about women and discrimination, 2007.

"We can find the respect & the Goddess form of woman in Temples, but we never find a woman who is free to Express her ideas."

"they must remember that light cannot be hidden in darkness, & it can't be crushed with the weight of custom & tradition."

I still believe that one.

More from the same notebooks:

Essays I Mostly Learned by Heart

The Only Original Essay in the Class

A Lecture on Television, and an Invitation One Day Before the Wedding