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Do you guys think I can put eating with chopsticks down on my application for manuel dexterity? I love to cook, and I usually use them after I cook steamed vegetables, make pasta, fish, chicken, rice, or other seafood such as clams and shrimp.
 
Can you use a pair in each hand at the same time while whistling Yankee Doodle?

You can put anything you want. If you've got nothing, I suppose so. I can't use them, so I think you're cool. They might get a chuckle out of it. But I don't know if that's the angle you're going for. They could also toss a couple of pencils your way and have you get crazy.
 
DrRoyal Pains said:
Do you guys think I can put eating with chopsticks down on my application for manuel dexterity? I love to cook, and I usually use them after I cook steamed vegetables, make pasta, fish, chicken, rice, or other seafood such as clams and shrimp.
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I feel like this has been asked before. I think the usually responses are if you have used them your whole life, etc, etc

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Nah I just started using them the beginning of spring semester because whenever my house had all the dirty utensils in the sink or dishwasher (lazy roommates), I would use the left over chopsticks from takeout ha. It got to the point where I used them whenever the utensils were still clean. I was just curious because Im legit at using them now and I know a lot of people who cant use them for s***. And jeffity, I probably could do that..get some.
 
I just feel that "using chopstick" is not for manual dexterity section. Well that is what I felt even though I used it for my whole life. Unless you have other things to talk about in 600 characters then I suppose you should. But if you have other things like musical instrument, calligraphy, or other stuff then I think shouldn't. I just felt 600 characters or 175 characters on other sections are so short to write somethign in detail.
 
Is eating with fork and knives considered manual dexterity? I mean, as a Chinese I had to learn how to use that eight years ago and I thought it was hard. Putting using chopsticks down seems.... like trying too hard to come up with something.
 
Lane138 said:
Is eating with fork and knives considered manual dexterity? I mean, as a Chinese I had to learn how to use that eight years ago and I thought it was hard. Putting using chopsticks down seems.... like trying too hard to come up with something.
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Fork- and knife-style is straight up fist and gross motor skills only. And the spoon....please, that's a barbaric shovel.

The chopstick, however, that's some serious fine motor love at work.
 
Raised in an asian home, I've used chopsticks virtually all my life. But, I won't put that on my manual dexterity.. Just seems absurd to me imo.
 
i was debating putting the chopstick thing down or not for manual dexterity. however, seeing how i'm asian, ppl might just be like "well, gee, what else is new?"

i think the chopsticks thing might work if you're non-asian, imo
 
To me it's hardly different that saying you eat with a knife and fork properly. I'd say driving a manual (well) is a hell of a lot more impressive than using chopsticks. Also, like race f**king matters, anyone can learn to use chopsticks.

Anyway, put it down if you want to, the worst that'll happen is the person reading will chuckle and move on to the rest of your app. Although considering it's such a large text box, you might describe your logic behind it, which could help a bit (same thing goes for putting down video gaming, etc).
 
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