Today, I was brave and went to a talk by one of my professors (Lisa Ede, who’s also my boss, and a great mentor), where I had a great big brain buzz. Well, two actually. One from the talk itself, which was all about what the rise of “citizen reviews” of books on websites–like [...]
I’ve just realized that there is a great danger in thinking that this paper needs to be a culmination of everything I’ve ever learned and everything I ever will learn.
I can’t expect myself to be a Scholar now. I’m still a student, and immaturity is not a crime… :)
If a person has interests in things like, comparative cultures, linguistics and gender studies… what would they do with something like that?
I mean… do they just go to grad school, study linguistics, sociology, maybe comparative cultures, or critical theory… research gender studies things… and write books?
Is teaching at a university the only academic career [...]
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I’m feeling really bitter right now. About the US government… about how most of my Big Values are unimportant to the vast majority of those in power and how that filters down to the masses of under-educated people on the internet and leads them to hate me because I express a certain view that [...]
Sometimes I have serious doubts about why I chose to go to college. It isn’t a question of whether or not I enjoy it… or if it is the best thing for me to do… But… I don’t have a reliable means to pay the fees, the tuition… I didn’t have a [...]
I’ve decided that I am going to translate Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance. “Translate?” you say…? “But isn’t it already in English?” Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Have you ever actually tried to read it?
Transcendentalism isn’t quite as awesome as I thought it was back in high [...]
You know… it really is disgusting how often I go to class completely unprepared, or how often I do my homework mere minutes before class begins, or not do it at all, and still get the grades I do. It’s disgusting how often I bullshit a 3 page philosophy essay in about half an hour [...]
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A noon-ish English lecture today had me feeling the same kind of butterflies that are usually reserved for when I meet an interesting person. Looking at my notes now, I hope to summarize what had me so… stimulated.
Something about how the idea of a “noble savage” shows up in mythology and in [...]
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Months ago, I had an extremely pessimistic view of life. I believed that the world was not worthy of existence, that it grossly unqualified to be considered for the position it was applying for, so to speak. It was an inferior form of existence to say the least and it really fucking pissed [...]
This is the first time I’ve heard a semi-logical argument against paying teachers more. It is kind of interesting. read on:
PiezoCuttlefish says:
Teachers are paid little not because the job is of little importance, but it is vitally important that we keep the best and the brightest in the field and out of teaching [...]