/lit/ - Literature

>>5551680
and? what did you guys have to say about frozen?

is that your instructor? pregnant with phone in hand? i am so sorry

>>>/sci/6799324

I posted the above topic on sci.

>tfw if I had just worked 9-5 everyday I would've done a gajillion times more work than now
>tfw the above would still apply if I put 10 - 3

>>5551680
Frozen what? Is this a new film/book?

>english bachelor
>pressure
topkek

Post more pics m8

Movie weeks are goat in uni. I almost managed to snag a qt while watching DOAS

>>5551723
Jelly STEMfag detected

>>5551694
Relations to medieval courtly romance and the Snow Queen as a source of inspiration

>>5551696
Lol thank God she isn't. Our instructor is a short betafag who caters to the whims and desires of that ugly blonde

>>5551836
Oh, so the most obvious things possible. I guess there's not much more you can say about a kid's movie without forcing some bullshit interpretation onto it, which you were probably forced to do as well

>I fucking hate life

Why? You're almost done with your degree. You're probably feeling burnt out, but this time next year you'll have a degree under your belt.

>>5551850
Pretty much. We also had to sift through the usual 'gender studies' bullshit.

>>5551680
Let it go.

>>5551858
The job market for humanities grads isn't too great in Britbongistan, even with a degree from a top uni. I feel burnt out, but even more so at the prospect that I'm going to have to go into postgrad to stand out

>>5551876
Any ideas for what you want to study in postgrad?
Not sure how flexible your choices are in Britbongland.

>>5551885
I'll probably specialise in semantics. Choices are fairly limited

>>5551896
Sounds depressing. Which uni?

>>5551876

It won't make you stand out as much as ANY work experience will.

>>5551922
UCL probably

>>5551733
I'm not that guy, but i'm doing an English bachelor and it's literally the easiest, least pressured thing in the fucking world.

My girlfriend is doing Law and I have witnessed a whole new world of pressure over the course of our relationship. Christ alive I do not envy her.

>>5551927
This. I work a job that regularly involves researching new journalists, and pretty much all of them have like 10 internships, even if they studied English etc. Most seem like rich kids acting bohemian, but anything humanities-related is seriously competative. I almost landed a year-long unpaid internship (three days a week) before getting this job, but I fudged the interview (thank god)

>>5551928
>paying London rents to study something you will likely have to leave out of your CV when applying for shit-tier jobs after graduation

>>5551927
That's the thing though, if I study part-time then I'll have the advantage of having a job whilst studying for my master's, which will serve as a pathway to go into academics if need be

>>5551929
No shit, the only pressure I felt was from having to write a few papers the day before due to me just fucking off.

>>5551936
i know that feel

I'm getting pretty fucking tired of it. Thinking of swtiching to STEM.

>>5551929
Yeah it really is, although if you get a SJW lecturer it can make things tricky. She was way harsh on my essays because I didn't write about the "recommended" question about representations of gender etc. Also people who study English are often the type of emaciated, fashionable douche who is just a chad in plaid

>>5551934
>implying I won't live with my parents.
>implying scholarship doesn't cover the degree cost

I literally won't have to spend a penny. My dignity, on the other hand...

>>5551941
I am not so shallow that I give a shit about how people on my course dress, But it frustrates me the number of people doing this degree simply because they thought it would be easy/couldn't do anything else, even at one of the best unis in the UK

>>5551947
Where are you at?

>>5551943
>graduating in your late twenties into an insecure job market where semantics is literally irrelevant
>landing a tenureship at Coventry Polytechnic and feel forced to write 12 articles a year on a boring-ass subject just to stay in the game

No thanks.

>>5551935

Yeah studying part-time seems like the way forward. I recently started and subsequently left a masters course because I realised it would give me no time to get good experience outside of academia.

Follow yo dreamz

>>5551951
Thanks. I'm only 20 though. I'll be 22 by the time I get my MA.

>>5551947
How they dress was just shorthand for how they act broseph. And yeah that's what I was talking about. My course is full of normie grills (inb4 /r9k/) who never offer their ideas or interpretations, and when they do it's a sort of lazy feminist critique about women being "meat" etc. My gf studies history and she says it's the same but the girls are just rich guys who joke around all the time.

>>5551957
MA means nothing, it's just a hurdle academia sets up to prove you're financially sound and committed

>>5551964
Like I said, it's a pathway to go into academics if need be, not a prerequisite for landing a decent job in the graduate market. It might help though, that I am certain of.

>>5551960
I understand. I think my gf is the only thing keeping me here at this point. Considering leaving at the end of the current year anyway though.

>>5551971
Leaving after spending a gazillion on tuition fees

>>5551979
The tuition fees wouldn't be an issue if I do what I'm thinking of doing, which is doing an Engineering degree instead. My dad is a prominent figure in a particularly advanced but niche field of engineering, so I wouldn't have any trouble finding a job after graduating.

ENGLISH BAs WW@?
>TFW SITTING AT HOME WATCHING SEVEN SAMURAI AND SHITPOSTING ON /LIT/ INSTEAD OF GOING TO LECTURES

>>5551988
>tfw shitposting on /lit/ during seminars instead of contributing

>>5551991
living the life

>>5551970
>it might help though, that I am certain of

You're certain that it "might" help? I'm certain I *might* get cancer and/or get hit by lightning tomorrow.

>>5551971
My gf is a year younger and is away in Switzerland for a term. Feelsbadman

>>5551991
>>5551988
>tfw ordering pizza now despite having plenty of food in the fridge
>tfw using the fact that my trainers broke to justify being a fat piece of shit for a week

>>5551995

ayyy lmao, she must be covered in foreign spunk 24/7. Do you seriously doubt this?

>>5551999
>tfw gonna order pizza tonight after work, then pop to the shops to get some maltesers when they're making it

smugpepe.jpg

>>5552001
/r9k/ enters the fray

>>5551995
>My gf is a year younger and is away in Switzerland for a term.

She's probably giving sloppy blowjobs to rich Lausanne kids

>>5552001
Nope. She's MtF and I don't think Swiss people are into that yet.

>>5552008
oh jesus christ gross

>>5552005
H-how did you know she was at Lausanne Uni?

>>5552002
>tfw reading the entirety of Iris Murdoch's bibliography instead of starting that essay which is due next wee

>>5552008
I feel a bit stupid but what is MtF?

>>5552008
aren't swisses as tolerant as swedes? i recall that captain sweden comic...

>>5552018
his girlfriend is a boyfriend in a dress

>>5552018
Mad bitch to Feminist.

>>5552014
I didn't, most people who go to Switzerland to study go to Lausanne because that's where the unis and the catering schools are at.

>>5552018
Male-to-female

She transitioned at 13 and looks qt as hell. I couldn't tel until I tried to kiss her and she had to awkwardly explain. Only like two of her friends know, and they were the ones she lived with in halls.

>>5552027
Requesting pics to verify.

Requesting 22 year olds to stop shitting up /lit/ with uni talk and misogyny.

>>5552029
Yeah, nah. She was bullied in school and had to change because people started to post shit online, so she doesn't have any profiles or anything and wouldn't want her pics posted. Sorry mang.

>>5552033
Sorry grandpa. What are you reading at the moment?

>>5552033
Stop bumping the thread then

>>5552029
>>5552034
If you google "Hope Sandoval" (the singer) she looks a little like her.

>>5552033
but i'm 20

also it's not misogyny to shitpost about a man.

also if you cant handle the bantz step out of the frying pan

>>5552038
It was bumped less than two minutes before. What difference does it make?

>>5552036
The Conjure Woman, and Other Conjure Tales (with a Quentin Fiore cover)

>>5552044
>bantz

What are you, a BANTERLORD? A BANTERBOT 2000?

I hate lads

>>5552051
wow

chauvinist

>>5552044
I'm talking about this cool meme:

>And yeah that's what I was talking about. My course is full of normie grills (inb4 /r9k/) who never offer their ideas or interpretations, and when they do it's a sort of lazy feminist critique about women being "meat" etc.

>We also had to sift through the usual 'gender studies' bullshit.

Girls are DUMB and I'm so SMART.

>>5552051
Look m8 i'm sorry if your school's football club tried to tittyfuck you while changing for PE once, but there's no need to be bitter about it.

>>5552056
Girls are smart. A lot of girls on Uni English courses are not, especially at pleb tier universities like the one the person you're quoting is at.

i bet he's at fucking warwick lmao

>>5552051
Every whiny middle-class manchild hates banter. Largely because their work doesn't involve hard work and camaraderie, something that is produced by a tacitly shared willingness to self-depricate

>>5552056
I'm the top quote, and the fact is the lectures are predominantly filled with grills, most of whom never speak in seminars (inb4 2oppressed2speak) and when they do usually offer lame feminist interpretations that clearly shows a lack of theoretical understanding. Did I say I was smart in comparison? Seems like you'r projecting pretty hard hun

>>5552058
I don't have tits. My school didn't have a football team. I'm not bitter. I just want peeps posting about their hatred of women to take it to another board. And talking about college was boring even in college.

>>5552058
>>5552061
Woah, so you're apologetic of obnoxious, mainly middle-upper class twats who enjoy to shit up every club and pub in town every wednesday because it's sports night, and who give students a terrible reputation by pissing of locals?

>>5552084
lads will be lads m8

>>5551680
> paying money to study english
Oh, the toppest of epic keks!

>>5552074
Don't call me "hun."

Why bitch about the girls in your class if you can't do better?

I don't care about their theoretical understanding. It's just as tiresome when some libertarian /lit/ dude complains about all the other libertarian shits in his class just not "getting it" in Contemporary Philosophy, but the women always need to be vetted more thoroughly.

And I also don't really care about the theory because I'm a pretty staunch Fiedlerian.

The boys don't dominate seminars because they're smarter and have more to say:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13422

>>5552061
I'm not part of this conversation, but that's a pretty narcissistic justification of "banter." I'm neutral to "banter," I guess? At least I don't remember having an opinion about it.

>>5552096
>he's never heard of scholarships

>>5552033
> le misogyny is bad, mmmkay?

>>5552100
Go graze elsewhere, cow.

>>5552108
>>5552116
self-indictments

>>5552100
Just because I didn't say I was better doesn't mean that's the truth, babe. Me and two or three other guys pretty much carry class discussion.

The rest of your post is just embarrasing.

>>5552100

wrong, behaviour that is seen as inherently male is just optimal behaviour. Women just won't bother putting in effort in most cases because they live lives on easy mode / have beta providers. Men don't have this luxury

Any time a woman is good at anything she's seen as trying to be a man when in actual fact she's just being a winner.

>>5552100
Post tits or gtfo

>>5552105
This is more "narcissistic"

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100141906/if-you-like-banter-you-are-an-idiot/

I've worked in manual jobs and office jobs, and although each has its unique flaws and benefits, the former at least had more solidarity than the latter, where petty politics and stature grabbing is more of a thing. When you're in the pissing down rain putting up scaffolding every day it helps to have a laugh every now and then, evnen if it isn't about Sartre's philosophical weaknesses

>>5552120
>caring this much on an anonymous Filipino graphics forum

Get fucked wench

Thank God I'm a highschool dropout that can smoke weed and analyse Joyce all day
Also what the fuck OP if it were a BAD book that's one thing but a Disney movie for English Bachelors? What the fuck?
That being said Disney dialogue and writing is engineered perfectly

What's with the SJW cancer on /lit/ recently?

>>5552156
back to your containment boards

>>>/v/
>>>/r9k/
>>>/pol/

>>5552155
What a depressing life
>no goals
>no achievements
>quits even the easiest things in life

man...

>>5552161
back to your containment sites

>>>/tumblr/
>>>/reddit
>>>/twitter/
>>>/jezebel/

>>5552146
>caring this much on an anonymous Filipino graphics forum

>>5552161
/r9k/ is surprisingly fem-positive. They just don't know how to talk to girls.

>>5552163
>goals
Illusory and needlessly strenuous. The bain of an insecure child still needing to prove themselves to others

>achievements
Living a Zen-NEET life is an achievement to myself just as much as working 60 hour weeks to own a Mazerati is for some other people.

>quits even the easiest things in life
Easiest thing in life is to breath and be at peace. Not many achieve the latter.

>>5552137
I don't have tits.

>>5552163
Typical sour grapes because you were too much of a pussy to tell mommy and daddy that you want to follow your own personal convictions and be master of your own education

>>5552174
>the key to achievement is to not achieve anything at all.

You are very depressing...

>>>/r9k/
?

>>5552180
Achievements are subjective bro, quit being such a cog

>>5552142
I've worked blue collar jobs and it's only ever been tolerable with butch lesbians and effeminate Puerto Rican queers. If I had to work with a bunch of sweaty, grunting white dudes "bantering" all day long I'd jump off a tall building.

I still don't have an opinion about "banter" as a thing in itself.

>>5552133
>>5552136
You guys have at least a little self-awareness, right? Like on your best days?

>>5552156
You called?

>>5552167
Don't need help from trips.

>>5552165
/b/ said you gotta pay a licensing fee for their meme.

>>5552187
>all day

Not what I said. If you're quiet, as most people tend to be around strangers, then they don't wrap you up in cotton wool or say please and thank you all day, but try and get you to loosen up and not take the work so seriously, because a lot of these guys make pretty poor money and have enough serious shit to think about. Also they aren't all grunting neanderthals. One guy I worked with was quiet as hell but he was able to take a joke and give back anything he took, so people let him get on with it. If you're working shoulder to shoulder with a dude all day then there has to be a certain level of openness and casualness about the way you interact. Banterphobes are often insecure beta males who use words like "appalled" and "sickened" when they hear a bad news story.

>>5552197
You certainly have an ego for one, if you think I give two fucks about helping feminist cancer.

>>5552191
Being needlessly patronizing is often a trait of the unself-aware sweet cheeks

>le trapped in the patriarchal mindset hypothesis

>>5552201
2012-era Tumblr PM'ed and said you gotta pay a licensing fee to parrot their opinions

>>5552206
I don't think "banterphobia" is as prevalent as you think.

You're doing some pretty heavy homo-curious romanticizing here.

>He was quiet as hell and he work hard as hell. But he could take a joke, and he gave back as hard as he took. If you work shoulder to shoulder with a man all day, there's an openness and casualness about the way you interact. He wasn't just some neanderthal. He opened me.

Blue collar-types can be ok. My dad drives a semi. As interlocutors, though, I don't think they have an advantage over anyone.

>>5552208
I have an ego for trips? Do you syntax?

>>5552212
I'm completely sincere and I'm not sure my comment isn't needed. You could have "think before you speak" tattooed on your forearm and it wouldn't be enough.

>>5552220
>I don't think they have an advantage over anyone.

Wow way to comprehend my post brother.

I am curious about the contents of your class.

>>5552215
Have you actually been on tumblr? It's mostly porn and instagrams of people running toward lakes with youthful abandon.

>>5552228
You said they don't wrap you up in cotton wool and they loosen you up and get you not to take your work so seriously. You describe a disadvantage of talking to people who work in offices and you describe an advantage of working with blue collar people. What don't I comprehend? It's too subtle for me.

>>5551836
>>5551859

>>5552231

Here.

After giving it a second thought, the only reasonable explanation is to assume that your students will have, in the future, a predominant visual language comprehension, and that somehow, you will have to lure them into learning classic culture (in this case, L'Amour courtois) using visuals as aid.

>>5552256
Yeah, when you consider that the literacy rate isn't declining, that's the only reasonable thing to think.

>>5552226
Even if I am beneffiting from the Patrinati, it feels good not having to be a whiny cunt online

>>5552096
>toppest of epic keys!

Maybe take a step back and re-evaluate your life

>>5552226
Even if I am beneffiting from the Patrinati, it feels good not having to be a whiny retard online

>>5552258

I don't think that sentence is correctly formulated, is it?

>>5552242
Overall they're not better to work with than PC office types, but they do have certain advantages, which I argued

>>5552234
You write like a thirty year old feminist trying to sound young and hip

>>5552270
Diagram it for me. Reed-Kellogg is fine.

>>5552271
It's true, you did argue it. Poorly. And this "banterphobia" issue of yours is still a figment.

>>5552256

Well the alarming thing is that they're earnestly discussing a type of film which elevates its own importance by how much money it can invest in its own self-promotion.

>>5552277
I refer you back to:>>5552142

>It's true, you did argue it. Poorly.

Wow, such set up.

>>5552278
ohh nooess

>>5552280
You refer me back to clickbait? Do you know the life of a paid columnist? Do you know how desperate they are to manufacture topics to write about? I know a columnist who's actually a pretty talented writer, and he was confessing the other day about a piece of underwritten, underdeveloped garbage he churned out about what to do and not to do when you go have drinks with your coworkers. He wrote it in 30 minutes and it got over 3 million hits. Banter's not a hot trending thing. Nobody cares about banter. Clickbait isn't evidence that anyone cares. It's evidence that an overworked journo got you to click on a headline.

>being this basic

>>5551988
>getting up from a three hour power nap to do all the work I put off for a whole month in a few hours
>shitpost on /lit/ instead

>>5552292
>being a trip
Seriously, nobody on lit ever says, "I wish there were more trips around here. They always have valuable things to say."

>>5552295
>implying

I run this board, you dumb faggot.

>>5552278

There are films who follow that pattern from which you can get material for an useful discussion.

I remember a philosophy teacher arguing with three eminent pomo french "philosophererins" about the relevance of the Jurassic Park plot, in the context of scientific discovery...

I don't know if he got bashed because he was a smart man, or because something else...

>>5552297
>>5552292
>>5552295
>>5552282

>>5552304
>imying

b8 harder

>>5552179
>shit posting on /lit/
>self educating

....

>>5552289
Does this image resemble a true scotsman to you?

>>5552185
Are you sure you made it past the 8th grade?

And I mean maturity wise.

>>5552077
>My school didn't have a football team.
>British
you must be from bradford, i guess you had a cricket team instead

>>5552314
>feeling the need to be hostile and prescriptive

You sure are a better adjusted person than I am!

>>5552316
>caring about what someone says about you personally on the internet

You sure a a batter adjusted person than I am!

>>5552320
>implying I care

Namaste grasshopper

I've just realised that I haven't been in a class with more than 40 % girls since my chemistry courses near the start of uni. And i only had a few of those.

What's it like being in a class with tonnes of qt grills?

>>5552297
Then what you say means a lot to all of us. Thank you for furthering the cause of literature. Had no idea 4chan boards had Boss King Lord Comptrollers (I bow to thee), or that mods were allowed to reveal themselves as mods, or anything like that. So much about the culture of /lit/ and 4chan I don't know about. Wish I knew how to greentext. Wish I wasn't "this much of a retard." Wish I wasn't a "dumb faggot."

Or you are a posturing fuckdoodle that nobody cares about.

>>5552321
>Namaste


lol

>>5552322
Based as fuck

>>5552324
>being this buttblasted

>>5552322

Irrelevant, you're in class to learn.

Class could be filled with aliens from Dhragnor, for all I care. Knowledge, does not have penis, nor vagina.

I bet however, that the after class parties would be fun.

>>5552313
Who is the "true scotsman" in my post? I said that banterphobia isn't a thing. A column about banter doesn't say anything about the public's feelings about banter. I didn't say that columnists are this or columnists can't be that. Maybe you can explain better how I committed the no-true-scots fallacy and I can see my error.

>>5552315
I'm American.

>>5552342
How about this guy?

>>5552337
sho nuff, boss

>>5552339
You're in class to work towards a credential. Learning is maybe tertiary.

>>5552347
That guy is DEFINITELY a Scotsman.

I gotta go stick a suppository up my ass.

>>5552346
don't use the word 'lad' then

>>5552354
Different anon. I say "y'all" and "hella."

The moral is nobody cares what you think about college and nobody cares what you think about women. Get fucked.

College talk: >>>/adv/
Women talk: >>>/b/ & >>>/pol/

>>5552351

>You're in class to work towards a credential. Learning is maybe tertiary.

No, I disagree with that assert, but you have the same right towards mine. Lets put it this way: having a credential won't help me the day I die, knowing I have learnt, will.

>>5552364
I see nobody cares about a lot of things. That person must be very knowledgeable.

>>5552375
That's very romantic. And expensive.

I'm just nobody's fool.

>>5552359
why reply to someone addressing someone else then?
weirdo

>>5552387

>That's very romantic. And expensive.

I can't understand how you correlate learning with expending money. The romantic part is so used, it doesn't really mean anything at all.

>>5552390
I think you got your wires crossed somewhere, but people do that on 4chan all the time.

>>5552403
"Romantic" is pretty well defined, Mr Orwell. I don't have anything against learning something in college, but if you just want to learn, it's a very expensive and time-consuming way to learn. I can see how you could occasionally appreciate the expertise of your professors. That doesn't mean that you couldn't seek out the same expertise elsewhere and build your own reading list. I don't really understand why people come to /lit/ looking for recommendations in 2014, when recommendations are so easily googleable. College offers you a credential and resources. We live in overcredentialed societies, and if OP really cared about people who aren't REALLY in college to learn shitting up his liberal arts classes (I think he just wanted to complain about women), then he'd put the blame where it really belongs: the long-established MBA takeover of college administration and the 20th century project of centralizing education.

I also have AIDS and herpes and hemorrhoids and chlamydia, and none of those things are laughing matters. I'm going to go rewatch The Fault in Our Stars, now. Good movie. Have you read the book?