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University Thread Anonymous Mon Nov 26 21:34:17 2018 No.12141846 [Reply] [Original]

Where are you learning?
What are you learning?
But most importantly, what are you reading?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 26 21:38:52 2018 No.12141859 University of Kansas Nothing The Aeneid and Crónica de una muerte anunciada

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 26 21:41:28 2018 No.12141868 >>12141859 >graduation rate: 60% how?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 26 21:42:11 2018 No.12141873 Wayne state university, Detroit Chemistry The Myth of Sisyphus

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 26 21:46:07 2018 No.12141887 Paris (exchange student) At the moment really nothing. I'm reading Rayuela at the moment. Probably going to read some Sartre or something after that. Recs on simple stuff in French would be appreciated though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 26 23:49:28 2018 No.12142276 File: 240 KB, 1024x1024, Colby_College_Seal.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12141846 Colby College Printmaking, History Gravity's Rainbow; The Dog of the South

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 26 23:51:06 2018 No.12142279 UCI Computer Science Go Down, Moses / Berlin Alexanderplatz

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 26 23:52:16 2018 No.12142281 >>12141846 Local Shithole Community College in NJ Associate's in Science Dead Souls

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 26 23:53:39 2018 No.12142288 PSU CS rereading lovecraft stories

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 00:12:37 2018 No.12142343 The school of hard knocks The case for suicide My diary desu

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 00:29:53 2018 No.12142413 >>12141868 You can get a 21 on the ACT if you're a Kansan and still be admitted, some people here are probably just not cut out for college

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 00:30:55 2018 No.12142418 >>12141887 Do you like it? I got halfway through El lado de aca and put it down. I can't stand Traveler and Talita, the Paris part was great though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 00:39:27 2018 No.12142442 >>12141887 >Recs on simple stuff in French Balzac and Le Clezio are good

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 01:06:39 2018 No.12142526 File: 276 KB, 750x749, University_of_texas_logo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Where my longbros at? Studying Environmental Science, hopefully can finish with halfway decent grad school prospects Just finished zama and started moby dick

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 01:10:05 2018 No.12142538 >>12142526 transfew to lit and becaom an auther my dude, you dont want to be an enviroman.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 01:16:12 2018 No.12142559

>>12141846
Corfu, Ionian University
History
The Murderess by Papadiamantis, it's about an elderly woman living on a village during the later 19th century, who after reconsideration of her life and the life of other women, comes to the conclusion females are born to live unhappy and as slaves, as burden to their families as well. With this in mind she starts murdering the village's young girls in order to rid them and their families of their future problems.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 01:31:36 2018 No.12142593
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Binghamton
Political Science
Rule Breaking and Political Imagination. It's for class and I probably won't finish it by tomorrow morning, which is when I was supposed to have read it by. It's unfortunate but it seems that a precipitous drop in personal morale has rode in along with this dreary weather. I can't muster up the wherewithal to actually concern myself with my academic career. It's quite frightening in a curious detached sort of way. It's as if I was watching someone being eaten by a shark from the safety of sandy shores.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 01:35:10 2018 No.12142607

>>12142538
Were you trying to throw as many typos as possible into that post or are you having an aneurism?

Not planning on spending an extra 2 years on a transfer, idk where you study if at all but UT's liberal arts is jammed full of underachievers and leftist bugpeople, not exactly something i wanna come out with 40k+ in debt for. At least in stem I have the optons to pursue further up academia or get a decent paying job if I please. I'll still be able to read on my own time, no reason to pay to have some tenured professor force me to read the latest fotm latinx poc progressive writer

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 01:56:36 2018 No.12142641

>>12141846
UT Arlington

Finishing up my undergrad in English and tech writing minor, got a paid internship lined up soon so I'm p happy with that. Gotta start teaching myself XML and working with Adobe once I graduate.

Reading primary 18th century documents on Sarah Winnemucca for my research paper. Senior Seminar topics course I got was American West; been reading Zitkala-Sa essays and also Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. I've really enjoyed it, I recommend all those writings if you're not familiar with native women authors. Great stuff

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 02:07:39 2018 No.12142659 >>12142607 latenx is unronicly based authors of today

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 02:42:04 2018 No.12142718 Soka

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 02:57:33 2018 No.12142751 University of Waterloo Computer Science Anabasis

>>	I Go !2HARVARdHk Tue Nov 27 03:22:44 2018 No.12142796 File: 351 KB, 1200x1166, harvard.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Daily reminder that if you don't study History and Literature at the top one (1) university then you will never be intellectually fulfilled.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 03:27:30 2018 No.12142806 File: 158 KB, 666x607, 1542325038905.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12142796 >study History and Literature

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Anonymous Tue Nov 27 03:39:48 2018 No.12142828

>>12142796
Harvard admits people based on the color of their skin. Sounds like a true meritocracy where intellectualism wins the day.

>>12141846
UCLA (grad school).

I'm in the public affairs school (worked in campaigns and now work in government).

Reading "End of the Battle" by Evelyn Waugh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 05:04:22 2018 No.12142989 Universidade Nova de Lisboa History The Ring Of the Dove by Ibn-Hazm and Tratado das Paixões da Alma by António Lobo Antunes

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 05:08:34 2018 No.12143001 >>12142814 Based trainspotting heroin addicted /lit/ anon

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 05:14:55 2018 No.12143014

Anyone here go to Williams in Mass.? How's the English program there?

Long story short: my adviser said that I was a shoo-in for a transfer into Stanford, and it got me thinking about branching out to the opposite coast. I've always wanted to go live in Massachusetts, so Williams has always been in the back of my mind.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 08:30:32 2018 No.12143472

>>12142418
I'm moving through it pretty slowly but I'm hoping to get done with it by the end of the month. I'm honestly liking the bits in Argentina way more than the Paris sections--I think I'll probably have to re-read a lot of the book before coming down one way or the other about how I feel about it.

>>12142442
I hadn't thought to read Le Clézio before; I'll have to check him out.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 08:36:36 2018 No.12143483
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Basically doxxing myself because by majors are whacky, but I'm going for a BS in physics and a BA in classics

Haven't had much time to read but starting translating the vulgate to keep me from getting rusty

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 09:26:44 2018 No.12143625

>>12141846
I am convinced that students at elite private universities are intellectually inferior to us proles at merely respectable schools

Spiritually inferior, that's obvious. The only people who could survive the modern admissions process are neurotic termites who have been groomed since birth to believe that associating with a selective superbrand university will prove they're geniuses. Fundamentally, these are eusocial creeps obsessed with status and attention. They are not people so much as they are insentient and fleshy nodes of social information. Look at their faces and you will see they've got that "Innsmouth look," a sort of hollow and perfectly groomed, over-socialized self-satisfaction characteristic to sociopaths and Nancy Pelosi. Sometimes I feel the urge to pop their heads like pimples and see all the likes and "good boy" pats on the bottom come pouring out like pus.

Intellectually inferior, though? But don't the exceptional test scores which their parents bullied them for prove that truly we are among gods?

>"No!"

For one thing, if standardized test scores were an actual measure of intellectual ability and not distantly correlated with it, then the only thing that universities with 4% admissions rates should need to look at are the test scores themselves. And once upon a time they WERE. Harold Bloom, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot--these were mediocre high school students who were of the correct social class and who performed relatively well on entrance examinations, and thus were admitted to the halls of Yale, UPenn, and Harvard, respectively.

But in the age of the Chinese Striver, the Prep Class, the Teacher Recommendation, the Tiger Mom, the only thing that matters are "leadership skills," "extracurriculars," and "personality." The test scores are just the credentials which allow you to even be considered (because, as admissions officers know, just about anybody can do well on a test).

The whole system is so stupid and outrageous that the only people who are dumb enough to trust it are the students who survive the meatgrinder themselves. People want to go to Harvard because Harvard is selective--not because Harvard is a particularly good school with an interesting history where you would learn important things. Harvard is not a university, Harvard is a networking opportunity, a live-in job fair, a real live, interactive LinkedIn page.

What's more is that just about EVERYBODY has caught on by now--except the students at these schools! The rubes! The morons!

One day we're going to look back and laugh at how stupid the whole farce, the whole PERFORMANCE was

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 09:35:22 2018 No.12143651
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Texas A&M
Wildlife Science and Statistics
>they're giving me a research scholarship for some shitty proposal about Bobwhite Quails I wrote in an hour
I started Blood Meridian but am only reading textbooks until December 12th.
>>12142526
>hurr durr muh barton springs salamander

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 09:44:49 2018 No.12143689 File: 1008 KB, 1299x990, Swansea-University-Logo-301.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] English Literature That Harold Bloom was broadly right The Good Soldier Svejk and The Heart of the Matter

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 09:56:48 2018 No.12143726 File: 2.08 MB, 1168x1600, vapes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey fellas, should I study philosophy? I know I'll end up starving, but is it worth it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 10:27:56 2018 No.12143837 File: 68 KB, 500x663, 1507558048114.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12143726 For what purpose?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:27:31 2018 No.12144059 Dundee CS Anti-Oedipus

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:32:42 2018 No.12144070 >>12143625 I'm right there with you champ

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:34:24 2018 No.12144081 >>12143689 HAHAHAHA

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:35:10 2018 No.12144088 File: 21 KB, 398x336, Butler Logo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'd be surprised if anyone on here goes here Marketing Finished up Infinite Jest and started A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:36:03 2018 No.12144091 U. of Mississippi basket weaving Oxford's history of the french revolution

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:37:54 2018 No.12144095 >>12143625 Based af, thanks for writing this

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:53:10 2018 No.12144143 UC Berkeley Molecular Biology Bhagavad Gita lmbo

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:54:59 2018 No.12144146 >>12141846 CBS Strategy The Royal Game (Zweig)

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 11:58:55 2018 No.12144163 Msu(the rapey one) Economics Crime and punishment

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 12:02:16 2018 No.12144175 >>12143625 Good post

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 12:03:40 2018 No.12144178

>>12142828
So does everywhere else with comparably high-achieving student bodies. You only have a point if there’s a school with students as good as those at Harvard which doesn’t engage in any non-meritocratic admissions practices.

Besides that, it’s pretty hard to argue with the size and impact of the university as a whole and all the ways an undergrad can use those resources.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 12:06:37 2018 No.12144190 >>12143625 How are they rubes for engaging in something that’s obviously profitable? Also you can evaluate a school’s faculty by more than just reputation.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 13:40:38 2018 No.12144475 >>12143625 You mean applicants like this? https://blog.prepscholar.com/successful-harvard-application-common-application-harvard-supplement

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 14:02:24 2018 No.12144556 >>12142828 >Harvard admits people based on the color of their skin. Sounds like a true meritocracy where intellectualism wins the day. t. underachieving whitie how does it feel that someone poorer than you beat you out

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 14:09:11 2018 No.12144580 File: 10 KB, 594x156, Fordham_University_logo.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just end my fucking life

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 14:10:33 2018 No.12144586
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>>12144556
>invent everything worth inventing
>create the best art, best literature, best philosophy, best science, best laws, best civilization, best everything
>be the best at literally everything
>chill out for a while
>get bored
>conquer basically entire world in the span of a few generations
>draw pictures of yourself standing astride continents
>rename brown people's entire homelands after your fat bitch queen
>import all the good stuff god accidentally put on the continents of lesser peoples, turn them into factories to produce it
>chill out for a while, content to have defeated space and time
>get bored again
>try having some massive planet-spanning internecine wars
>develop ability to destroy entire world because why not
>finally get bored of even that
>need to devise a new way to fuck with inferior races
>decide to invite them into our homes, let them shit all over the walls, condescend to them and patronize them
>even tolerate them becoming whiny and spoiled and feeling entitled to it
>even tolerate their insults and pathetic admonishments that they are entitled to our homes and we don't deserve them
>lift our inferiors onto our shoulders for a goof, the view ruined by the knowledge that they only have it at the sufferance of the giant who is lifting them
>give everything to them when it is precisely not having things handed to you that makes you strong some day, permanently othering them
>remain the eternal Same
>remain kings of the universe
>still run their homelands as slave factories for mass producing baseball hats and tampons

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 14:13:00 2018 No.12144596 >>12144580 I did my undergrad there, not a fan anon?

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 14:13:24 2018 No.12144597

>>12143651
>what is an indicator species

E. sosorum is just one species of a much larger distribution of Eurycea connected throughout the Edwards Plateau riparian network, If a city can't manage to protect one species it proves them incapable of maintaining a stable groundwater supply.

go back to jerking off your horses, hick

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 14:15:24 2018 No.12144607

>>12143726
Yes, you probably should, but heres the thing: consider how you would feel not doing it. If you can picture yourself doing something else, you should probably do that, because philosophy is isolating and thankless work outside your immediate academic circle. If you genuinely care about it though, it is the best decision you can make, because nothing else will ever be enough.

Also, if you do it, do it all the way. At the very least follow it through to a Masters. If you don't want to do that, you shouldn't do a bachelors.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 14:31:20 2018 No.12144675 I attend Princeton. Literature and Philosophy are where my focuses are I'm currently reading Suba Hibi (a VN), but I'm also reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus since I heard it would help me understand the VN better

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 14:33:19 2018 No.12144683 >>12144597 lmao it was a just a goof, bud. Also we fuck Deer in the wildlife department horses are strictly animal science.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 15:03:45 2018 No.12144778 >>12141846 Stevens Institute Technology Computer engineering and I hate it Crime and Punishment

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 15:12:21 2018 No.12144801 File: 24 KB, 900x900, sparky.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12141846 asu electrical engineering brothers karamazov and gravitys rainbow

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 15:13:31 2018 No.12144808

>>12144675
lol

I am at Columbia (New York). Do not be deceived by the whole idea of the Core Curriculum: it's not very well executed.
I'm majoring in Comparative Literature & Society, might also try to squeeze in a minor in philosophy.
Most recent book I read solely for pleasure was a biography of one of the more obscure but colorful figures of the Decadent era in England, Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock. Seems like he wasn't a very good writer himself, but he was remembered fondly by several who were major writers.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 15:45:16 2018 No.12144914

i'm at hunter college
studying english literature but probably going to drop out after this semester and learn a trade, keep having deeply unsettling panic attacks in the middle of class
reading wide sargasso sea for class, cities of the plain by mccarthy on my own time

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 15:58:13 2018 No.12144948 >>12144586 are you saying Asians don't have a chance of rising up?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:22:12 2018 No.12145036 Borough of Manhattan Community College General liberal arts Many things

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:23:42 2018 No.12145045 >>12141846 I hear St. John’s College has an unspoken partnership with UChicago, in that they send kids over for just about any subject. Any St. John’s or UChicago student have any input?

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:35:07 2018 No.12145092
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junior at harvard
studying government and math

currently reading: confidence men (ron suskind); political theories of the middle age (otto gierke); a secular age (charles taylor); the king's two bodies (ernst kantorowicz); the royal touch (marc bloch); the discovery of the individual 1050-1200 (colin morris); the vocation lectures (max weber); and the enforcement of morals (patrick devlin). some other maths stuff but that's neither here nor there.

>>12142828

i'm a white, conservative-leaning male without legacy or athletic status. not particularly superlative grades or SATs either, to be honest.

what you say is pretty true, though. i got here and it's not what i expected--there are some really gifted people, no doubt; but man, there really are some tards as well.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:38:22 2018 No.12145112 >>12142593 We go to the same university, I'm an econ major but I've taken a good amount of polisci courses. There's a non-insignificant chance we know each other IRL.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:39:59 2018 No.12145117 >>12143001 Trainspotting was set in Edinburgh m8

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:41:36 2018 No.12145125 >>12142526 Working on my application.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:44:45 2018 No.12145135 >>12142526 Ut Dallas Econ Just finished sanctuary, reading Foucault for philosophy class, occasionally chesterfield’s letters to his son for motivation

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:50:01 2018 No.12145163 >>12144683 Yee yee feller. I love college station. pretty girls and funny rednecks

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:53:19 2018 No.12145175 Albany History and Public Policy I'm reading Crusade In Europe but not for class. This school is shit and I should have just gone to community college, unfortunately I'm balls deep at this point

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:53:34 2018 No.12145176

Im the university of arkansas student that gets ignored in every one of these threads lol

In several classes but the only one I care about I'm learning group, ring, and field theory.

Currently reading postcapitalism by Paul Mason and total fears by bohumil hrabal. Violence by zizek is next on my list.

>>12142526
looking at going to UT austin for grad school. my prof did his phd work there so it probably wouldnt be too difficult to get in with his recommendation. Is austin bearable? I'm sick of the new "hipster" movement in northwest arkansas and a lot of it seems to copy what people think of austin. are people there more genuine? may be the wrong place to ask but maybe anonymity will warrant better responses

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:54:40 2018 No.12145188 >>12141846 Athabasca University Just working on my bachelors On the Fourfold Root

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 16:56:52 2018 No.12145203 >>12143625 I want to agree and believe in this but I am made suspicious by the likelihood that we're all just young men of mediocre academic sucess trying to communally console and reassure ourselves

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 18:32:25 2018 No.12145630
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>>12145176
Atx definitely has its pockets of hipsterdom but it is by no means ubiquitous throughout town. A lot of the people reinforcing that general aesthetic are downtown tech industry transplants unwelcomed by the majority of native austinites. There is a pretty clear distinction between the "stay weird" austin-hippie types and the insufferable yuppie crowd, and both are easily avoided simply by steering clear of the right bars and venues that they inhabit. The university area especially is mostly out of towners uninvolved in the culture so you should have no difficulty in that regard especially if you are actually putting reasonable time into your grad research. You're much more likely to be annoyed by the recent influx of lazy fuckers riding electric scooters that has been plaguing most large cities as of late.

Wherever you end up for grad hopefully it works out, have a meme

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:07:05 2018 No.12145796 >>12145092 >i'm a white, conservative-leaning male without legacy or athletic status. not particularly superlative grades or SATs either, to be honest. How the FUCK did you get in?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:17:23 2018 No.12145835 >uchicago >economics >Discourses on Livy All three are pretty good so far

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:24:12 2018 No.12145856 University of Oulu Computer science Inherent vice and Oblomov

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:28:25 2018 No.12145872 File: 7 KB, 250x250, 1540330090829.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12144675 I knew I'd find Princetontoad in this thread. I'm sure your life still sucks but at least you are reading.

I Go !2HARVARdHk Tue Nov 27 19:30:21 2018 No.12145879

>>12145092
>>12145796

>i'm a white, conservative-leaning male without legacy or athletic status. not particularly superlative grades or SATs either, to be honest.

I am too, but my ACT and GPA were pretty good. It is more about personality and diversity status. Either one works

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:35:20 2018 No.12145901 >12145835 >Discourses on Livy big brain

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:47:56 2018 No.12145960
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>>12144475
What does /lit/ think of Harvard student and academic superstar Allen Cheng's personal statement?

Keep in mind that he has a higher IQ than you and was admitted to every single elite university he applied to DESPITE being Asian.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:51:02 2018 No.12145983 File: 179 KB, 737x370, body_harvardapp_essay2[1].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12145960 Would /lit/ be intellectually capable of snoozing Allen Cheng's alarm clock? Somehow I'm doubtful

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:52:34 2018 No.12145996 Just got a B.A in russian language... Soon going for an MA in International Relations. Currently reading Post Office by Bukowski

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 19:56:17 2018 No.12146012 >>12145960 >>12145983 Sure it’s cringy, but I have never read an undergraduate application essay I liked.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 20:34:05 2018 No.12146195 >>12145630 thanks for the response and meme pal

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 20:53:07 2018 No.12146266

I wish I could go back to uni, as an actual student and not just an alum turned townie who walks his dog through the quad on Christmas

I live in the same town as my alma mater so sometimes when I'm bored I just hang around the uni library on weekends reading academic books that would be too rare and expensive for me to come by with my own money

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 21:58:44 2018 No.12146552 >>12145901 its not the best thing I've read this trimester, but its pretty good. Also read Iliad, Republic, Aeneid, Politics, The Prince, Paradise Lost

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 21:59:35 2018 No.12146556 >>12145112 Do you live on-campus or off?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:11:31 2018 No.12146606 University of São Paulo Physics The Sirens of Titan

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:13:14 2018 No.12146614 >>12146552 good class

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:21:28 2018 No.12146648

>>12146614
yea we get a core curriculum where you can take some pretty culturing classes. Definitely creates a unique environment where everyone is at least well read in about a dozen important foundational texts of philosophy, literature, and politics. The stem part of the core is pretty shit though. Taking one class on biology doesn't teach the same as three on classics

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:28:10 2018 No.12146669 >>12142828 Is public affairs an intellectually enriching field? Sounds like it could be interesting combination of subjects like economics, political science, sociology, etc.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:29:48 2018 No.12146678 >>12146669 no Study economics for real if you want anything that incorporates economics. Polisci and sociology are valid, but there are far more enriching fields

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:30:26 2018 No.12146681 File: 352 KB, 481x456, joni ernst picture.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12145092 >he lists his course reading

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:33:13 2018 No.12146691

>>12146012
I had such trouble when doing these while applying to college. I was not happy with anything I wrote and all the online examples are shit. Some people do have genuinely amazing circumstances or achievements to describe, but most of the time these essays are clearly pointless in showing them, as Allen Cheng's essay shows.

I mean, it's a chance to show writing skills, thought process, etc, but i think it'd be much more efficient to just do that through submitting a essay to a more analytic prompt.

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:36:27 2018 No.12146707

>>12145092
>i'm a white, conservative-leaning male without legacy or athletic status. not particularly superlative grades or SATs either, to be honest.

I was talking about the school generally and not you specifically.

>there are some really gifted people, no doubt; but man, there really are some tards as well.

That's been my experience. I've spent plenty of time around Ivy League people (both at UCLA and at Cambridge; also am in a relationship with one). Obviously for every notable person from those school there are thousands who are not notable. Most of them probably aren't mega-geniuses but are just a bit brighter than people from slightly less good schools (though these days with the cultural trends I sort of wonder).

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:40:29 2018 No.12146725 Pitt Computational Linguistics All the pretty horses

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:42:11 2018 No.12146731 >pic related >CS >Cyclonopedia I’m slowly starting to realize this school is shit and i should’ve gone into the liberal arts lmao

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:43:41 2018 No.12146736

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Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:52:23 2018 No.12146762

>>12146707
>Most of them probably aren't mega-geniuses but are just a bit brighter than people from slightly less good schools (though these days with the cultural trends I sort of wonder).
As someone at a top five uni, the vast majority of my peers either went to boarding or regular private school, the remaining at public schools were in magnet schools. Its got nothing to do with anything other than class and environment. People here are smarter because they’ve been raised to be, but I have trouble conflating merits of self with merits of environment.
That being said, plenty of them are geniuses, but plenty are dumb as bricks

Anonymous Tue Nov 27 22:57:09 2018 No.12146775
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PhD student at an Ivy league school
MSc graduate from a Golden triangle uni in London
BSc graduate from a top public school in the US

Machine Learning

Currently reading Eyeless in Gaza - Huxley
Just finished Beauty and Sadness - Yasunari Kawabata

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 00:03:56 2018 No.12147002 Albion College Philosophy Killing Hope by Bloom

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 02:59:33 2018 No.12147478 Linköping University, Sweden. Mathematics and Didactics. Henry David Thoreau and Strindberg.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 03:20:06 2018 No.12147529 File: 66 KB, 564x265, UC-Davis-Logo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12141846 UC Davis Neurobiology Heart of Darkness and The Story of Philosophy

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 05:09:01 2018 No.12147758

>>12146669

Public Admin/Policy is a great field but most people imagine it’s a lead-in to the kind of bureaucratic grunt work you can get without any degree at all, at least at Bachelor’s and Master’s level. The field is only worth it if you can get a PhD or study some more exciting and engaging aspect of policy and public sector work for your graduate thesis or dissertation. Or if you study institutions and policy in a hands off, academic way and go the consulting route.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 05:12:06 2018 No.12147766 File: 10 KB, 160x89, downloadfile-6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] University of Crete Electrical engineering A brief history of time

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 05:13:15 2018 No.12147771 Not a real student anymore but doing ASU’s TESOL certification as a ticket into a possibly better job

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 05:14:51 2018 No.12147775 >>12143726 In my country (greece) you'll starve like hell,poeple here study it even tho they know they'll end up homeless

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 05:17:23 2018 No.12147782 >>12142796 Doubt

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 06:35:22 2018 No.12147910

Oxford
Physics

Francis Klingender - Art and the Industrial Revolution
Samuel Beckett - The Unnameable
Michel Houellebecq - The Art of Suffering
van Fraassen - Possibilities and Paradox

discord: dextromethorphan#1072
let's chat shit.

>>12146725
add me bruh, computational linguistics sounds fascinating

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 06:44:52 2018 No.12147938 >>12147775 You'll starve in Greece even if you study mechanical engineering, to be fair

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 06:56:57 2018 No.12147970 >>12147782 >lying to yourself

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 06:57:56 2018 No.12147974 >>12141846 Anybody know anything about Xavier U, in Cincinnati?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 07:38:32 2018 No.12148067 >>12143625 I like to think this, but I'm a fuckin' retard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 07:45:10 2018 No.12148076 File: 19 KB, 236x272, 2324982938717.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12142796 >academia >intellectuals

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 07:49:53 2018 No.12148084
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>>12143625

>They are not people so much as they are insentient and fleshy nodes of social information. Look at their faces and you will see they've got that "Innsmouth look," a sort of hollow and perfectly groomed, over-socialized self-satisfaction characteristic to sociopaths and Nancy Pelosi. Sometimes I feel the urge to pop their heads like pimples and see all the likes and "good boy" pats on the bottom come pouring out like pus.

Yes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 07:57:53 2018 No.12148094 >>12142288 >rereading lovecraft stories Which one are you reading?

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:01:25 2018 No.12148101
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>>12143625
>Fundamentally, these are eusocial creeps obsessed with status and attention. They are not people so much as they are insentient and fleshy nodes of social information. Look at their faces and you will see they've got that "Innsmouth look," a sort of hollow and perfectly groomed, over-socialized self-satisfaction characteristic to sociopaths and Nancy Pelosi. Sometimes I feel the urge to pop their heads like pimples and see all the likes and "good boy" pats on the bottom come pouring out like pus.

Is it time?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:07:07 2018 No.12148111 File: 191 KB, 887x901, Miskatonic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12143625 > Look at their faces and you will see they've got that "Innsmouth look" Indeed, the only university trully respectable is the Miskatonic University

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:12:13 2018 No.12148125 University of Sydney Philosophy Nietzsche- Beyond Good and Evil, as well as some Aristotle on the side (Athenaion Politeia)

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:18:10 2018 No.12148137 ANU Sociology Reading Kafka's oeuvre again

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:27:52 2018 No.12148157 Central Michigan University pretty much nothing, just using my GI Bill The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:33:39 2018 No.12148168

>>12143726
Study something like German instead, philosophy is basically German without German language classes, so you might as well pick up a language doing it. Either way go for the MA, a bachelor's is just an entry ticket to it at this point. And I tend to agree because a bachelor's degree teaches you fuck all in anything, it's basically an introductory course.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:41:38 2018 No.12148184 >>12147938 To he fair thats not true,engineering never let anyone starve,unless you are a retard

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:42:42 2018 No.12148185 >>12147970 Do i tho?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:46:34 2018 No.12148192 Can we just all agree that studing art is huge waste of time?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:48:43 2018 No.12148194 I have an SOI (statement of intent) due soon and need help, any tips or pointers guys?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:51:22 2018 No.12148200 >>12148194 haha soi

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:51:53 2018 No.12148201 >>12148194 Is this undergrad? Just write some sob story about how you were born into poverty and you want to do X because your grandmother died of cancer or some shit. That's what I did.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:54:27 2018 No.12148208

>>12141846
>UMBC '17
>Finance Economics
>Nothing atm, finishing up NaNoWriMo then once I'm done I'll be finishing Blood Meridian which I'm halfway through

Also, I'm thinking of getting my MBA soon. If I can't get into an Ivy+Stanford/MIT/Chicago what are some good Southern schools for business?
>tfw half yankee and half southern by blood and live in Maryland by chance
Strange feels

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:55:26 2018 No.12148211 >>12148208 MBAs are worthless without actual business experience.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 08:59:26 2018 No.12148218 >>12141887 Personal favorites are Cioran, Giono and Beaudelaire

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 09:07:08 2018 No.12148242 >>12148200 heh. >>12148201 Thanks for the help anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 09:07:41 2018 No.12148244 >>12148211 Yes, and?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 09:10:26 2018 No.12148249 East Coast, Comp Sci, Crime and Punishment absolutely loving this book, im almost done it. tried brothers k but my little pea brain coundnt understand it. C&P is fucking based tho

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 09:11:35 2018 No.12148251 >>12148249 east coast of canada* didnt want to be too specific

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 09:33:10 2018 No.12148318 dundee medicine the myth of sisyphus >>12144059 small world. we should grab a pint and chat shit some time

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 09:38:47 2018 No.12148333

>>12141846
University of Leeds
Chinese and History joint honours
Right now I'm reading My Main Man Mair's Big Book of Traditional Chinese Literature, alongside Water Margin and (whenever I'm at my shitty flat instead of my gf's, which is never) Canterbury Tales.

Kinda enjoying flexing on all these /lit/lets who only know the western canon. You niggas ain't ever even heard of Han Shan or my boy Li He.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 09:44:22 2018 No.12148352 File: 7 KB, 225x225, download (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] UTD Literature Anti-Oedipus Every humanities professor here is a meme.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 10:01:23 2018 No.12148393

>>12143726
Not unless you go to a top-tier uni.

Anything but top-tier unis will not teach you philosophy well enough to bother with. And idiot interviewers will actively discriminate against philosophy graduates, for no real reason.

If you go to a top-tier uni, then it doesn't actually matter what degree you get because people will just get starry-eyes at the name of the uni.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 10:03:10 2018 No.12148397 Instruction Center Admiral Braz de Aguiar Maritime engineering I´m just finishing storm of steel, next is going to be a book about the historical of economic policies in Brazil.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 11:47:00 2018 No.12148635 university of toronto political philosophy mostly german idealist writers, as they relate to my classes. also junger and nozick plenty of retards and mindless chinks here

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 11:55:26 2018 No.12148668 >>12142276 >How to be unemployed with a mountain of debt

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 12:06:47 2018 No.12148714 >>12142796 top one lol xD everyone is invited to quad formal withn me

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 12:08:20 2018 No.12148722 >>12145092 hm new guy don't think we've seen him around?>>12145879

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 12:24:26 2018 No.12148766 University of Dubuque Flight operations Nothing

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 12:29:07 2018 No.12148779

>>12148766

Nice dubs. What do you want to do with your life? Do you want to fly airplanes? Do you want to start a family in Iowa? Do you like Iowa? Do yu ever feel like moving to a big city?

What do you like to do in your free time? HOw old are you? Do you love your family?

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 12:30:30 2018 No.12148783

>>12143625
I agree but you come off like one of those dumbasses from high school who say shit like “heh, everyone knows that it’s the C students who make the businesses that the A+ students work for” so they can cope with knowing that they suck at school. Maybe you should hit more on how tests aren’t everything and dynamic intelligence (multitasking, logic, and problem solving) is more valueable than rote memorization.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 12:36:07 2018 No.12148794 >>12141887 Seconding others French rec itt. Also Stendhal's prose is pretty accessible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:03:10 2018 No.12148873 File: 379 KB, 1200x1200, rerumcognoscerecausas.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12141846 London School of Economics Accounting & Finance The First Philosophers (pre-Socratics and Sophists)

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:04:58 2018 No.12148875 >>12141846 >Where are you learning? University of Groningen >What are you learning? Physics >But most importantly, what are you reading? Currently it is the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy part II

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:05:33 2018 No.12148878 File: 38 KB, 432x432, sad_hoop.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ICL computing conversations with friends

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:09:04 2018 No.12148889 >>12141846 is college worth it? Feel for the no debt meme but now am 20 w/ no direction and feeling like I should just suck it up and go to college

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:23:06 2018 No.12148955 >>12143625 >>12144070 >>12144095 >>12144175 >>12148084 >>12148101 Copious amounts of cope

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:25:57 2018 No.12148973 >>12148889 Depends what you mean by 'worth it'. Do you want a better job? Do want to learn? What do you want from college?

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:35:02 2018 No.12149006

>>12148779
>>>12148766 (You)
>Nice dubs. What do you want to do with your life? Do you want to fly airplanes? Do you want to start a family in Iowa? Do you like Iowa? Do yu ever feel like moving to a big city?
>What do you like to do in your free time? HOw old are you? Do you love your family?

Obviously I want to fly airplanes, but I don't know specifically what I'll do. I don't want children or a wife, just someone to keep my dick wet. Iowa is boring as hell, but this is one of the best flight schools in the country. I came here from LA and I want to go back eventually. I mostly shitpost, play video games and listen to music in my free time. I'm 18 years old, and yes I love my family and they love me too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:42:41 2018 No.12149048 >>12148889 If you want to be working class, it's not necessary.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:48:46 2018 No.12149079 >>12148955 based

>>	I Go !2HARVARdHk Wed Nov 28 13:50:16 2018 No.12149087 >>12148714 Can I be your date to quad formal?

>>	I Go !2HARVARdHk Wed Nov 28 13:51:18 2018 No.12149095 >>12148722 I noticed that too Hello Mr. >>12145092 , reveal yourself

>>	Acbn Phone Wed Nov 28 13:58:31 2018 No.12149135 penis

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 13:59:34 2018 No.12149142

>>12148889
College is a scam but you should still go if you don't want to be eaten alive by the gig economy

Don't major is something stupid, don't worry about prestige, get in and out as quickly as possible, and you'll be fine

A lot of 4chan's resentment towards college seems to be coming from 100 IQ boomer tradies on pol. They were too stupid for calculus and now celebrate their stupidity as a point of pride. Do not listen to them or their memes, they are miserable and hateful people who work manual labor like common chimps and are pissed about it

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:05:47 2018 No.12149162 >>12148955 >>12149079 big cope

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:09:02 2018 No.12149178 >>12143625 >"No!" The sign of a superior copypasta. It puts a smile on my face every time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:25:52 2018 No.12149246 File: 60 KB, 617x800, 8fc3189eb33c669034537e8c0810d70f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12147910 Got rejected from Oxford yesterday, sad times. Going to have to go to Durham. Didn't even get an interview either.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:35:15 2018 No.12149288 >>12147910 You and I would be frens. I love van frassen. Laws and symmetry is amazing

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:38:11 2018 No.12149298
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>>12144607
>>12147775
>>12148168
>>12148393
Aight, thank you anons, I'll strongly consider this
>>12143837
You know, to learn and stuff, perhaps I can get a gf while we're at it

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:41:59 2018 No.12149312 >>12145960 >higher IQ than you lmao

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:45:08 2018 No.12149329 >>12145960 He'll grow out of this mediocrity. I believe in him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:46:20 2018 No.12149334 McGill Biochemistry Nothing but articles and textbooks fml

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:47:02 2018 No.12149336 i go to a school that the /pol/fugees probably don't like (hint: we need some muscle over here)

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:47:44 2018 No.12149339

Portland Community College
Studying towards a paramedic licence
Recently finished The Humain Stain, now reading Ezra Pound’s A B C’s of Reading and my textbook for emergency medical care.
Spent a year at a prestigious American college, it was terrible. There were smart people, lots of them, but even more so were the insufferable psueds who just parroted their professors opinion. Not to mention all the identity politics bullshit, if I heard one more nigger complain about how hard it was being the only black person in their country club I was going to loose it. That and I faced ongoing harassment because some psycho bitch accused me of “hugging her in a way that made her feel uncomfortable”.
Really don’t see the appeal of prestigious education any more. Sure it’s more rigerous, and I enjoyed that, but at least cc is filled with interesting genuine people who aren’t neurotically sucked into their own assholes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:47:58 2018 No.12149340 >>12149246 lad come Warwick!

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:51:43 2018 No.12149359 >>12149339 sounds like you had an awful experience, man. hope you find your studies rewarding going forward. best of luck

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 14:59:36 2018 No.12149391

>>12149359
Thanks bro. So far I’m enjoying the community college scene. No campus culture to speak of, the professors are all interesting people, and the material is really fascinating. Once I get my Associates I’ll go back to uni for a BA, but honestly I prefer it this way. Less stress about what I’ll do after college, or how I’ll pay for loans: I’ve got no debt and I’ll have a degree which gauruntees me a job which if not profitable, is at least challenging.

I’d recommend everyone to do the same desu. So many people go to college to “find themselves” then end up buried in debt without prospects in life. CC education is just as good, offers more options (for example, I can take law enforcement classes on interrogation, homeland security, and crime scene photography just for fun), and costs a fraction of more “prestigious” schools.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 15:02:31 2018 No.12149407 >>12149391 Damn, that does sound cool. I'm literally searching my local community college's catalog for crime scene photography classes right now

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 15:03:53 2018 No.12149412 >>12141846 University of Kingston (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy) Modern European Philosophy Critique of Pure Reason-Kant Phenomenology of Spirit-Hegel

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 16:16:23 2018 No.12149729 >>12143837 (Me) >>12149298 Why do you need an institute to learn and stuff? What does the paper at the end signify to you? If there are greater aspirations beyond knowledge, pursue it, but if not, find something better suited to your time and pocket.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 16:20:32 2018 No.12149751 Stall this.. I go to a third-rate uni colloquially referred to as Trinners in Dublin, but I am not entirely retarded. I am stalling Lit. Reading Eliade and Plato. I look forward to your abuse.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 16:52:32 2018 No.12149874 >>12149751 how is that a third rate uni? mines worse. also ive seen ur library on 4chan a handful of times, its so pretty

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 17:12:58 2018 No.12149967 >>12148873 41st says fuck you

rockinlucy.t@gmail.com Wed Nov 28 17:13:23 2018 No.12149970

>>12149246
Oh, it's probably a good thing you didn't get in. Whilst there are great people there to make friends with, the workload is.. insane.

Maths has 5 problem sets a week, and I think they're meant to be around 8 hours each. Plus you have lecture and tutorial time.

Physics, 2 - meant to be 8-10h I think; some of them are excessively long). But labs take up a day a week in first year; 2 days a week in 2nd and 3rd. This has been a thorn in my side. Wish I'd done maths because I _hate_ labs. The computing lab was awesome (building a basic computer and programming it with machine/assembly) but that was it. For me, a person with ADHD (undiagnosed til midway through second year) and several sensory processing disorders, the lack of accommodations made me a depressed, anxious wreck.

Best to avoid.

Essay subjects are at least a bit better because you get to be creative, but still, all my friends complained about the workload / being constantly stressed.

Essentially, they expect you to be autistically obsessed with your subject, which, unfortunately, I am not.

>>12149288
>would

Hey, let's make it happen. You not a discord? Check name ^

He does sound interesting; came across his name in a book called "Causal Reasoning in Physics". The book you mentioned sounds right up my alley; Possibilites and Paradox is just a textbook on modal logic though.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 17:40:39 2018 No.12150122

>>12141846
Are you attending St Johns? I'm really interested in going back to school (after only doing a year of state school) and am considering it and Thomas Aquinas College due to their great books curriculum. Would be cool to get some input on how student life is and how rigorous the academics are, is it as rewarding as I think it would be?

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 17:55:13 2018 No.12150188

>>12150122
I am.
It's better than anything I could have hoped for. I always sound like a "shill" when I advise people to come here, but I honestly recommend this school for anyone.

Student life is pretty much what you put in. All classes are discussion-based, so if you aren't putting in your insight, you are kind of pushed out of the social scene. It all starts in the classroom.
There's a lot of extracurriculars; most popular is study groups for interests (Russian, German Poetry, Bible Study, etc..) and some sports. I'm on the row team, and though we get our teeth kicked in by the Naval Academy across the street (duh. . .) we have a great time.
Girls are a little more traditional than what I've found on other campuses.
Guys are pretty nerdy, but in the positive way. Many bros are to be made; the campus also seems to attract a lot of wealthy people (this surprised me when I first came. My tour guide was some Norwegian aristocrat who loved the college). I don't know if that very much matters to you, though it's certainly present on campus. I've been invited to many formal dinners, many of which my wealthier peers have insisted on paying for.
Everyone's genuinely interested in the material.

Academically, it is RIGOROUS. I'm not going to exaggerate. We study the equivalent of what someone at a traditional uni would for a double major. Maths are much more conceptual, aiming to have a higher understanding of the subject than a technical. Greek's the hardest class.

I'd say it's pretty rewarding. Johnnies go to all sorts of institutions (I think we had 3 go to Harvard, 2 go to Oxford this year)
As the third oldest college, I guess there's some unspoken "prestige" to some institutions.

If you have any questions I'd like to answer them. This is all written from the perspective of a middle class freshman, so take it as you so will

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:08:49 2018 No.12150275 >>12148333 我现在学中文。今年是我的第一年学中文。中国书有意思。我想看中国书。你有书好我的吗? 我可以看中国书和英文吗?还是只中文吗?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:13:01 2018 No.12150301 >>12150275 戮!

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:13:04 2018 No.12150302 Case Western Reserve University Math And Physics Ovid's Metamorphoses

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:13:11 2018 No.12150304 >>12149970 >>12150188 >it's a posh fag thinks math somehow gets more rigorous the more money you give an institution thread

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:15:10 2018 No.12150315

>>12150188
Thanks for the input seems like you are really enjoying your experience there. I can understand the lackluster performance in rowing again the Naval Academy but at least you all have the crochet scene locked down.
I'm not surprised by the amount of wealthy people, being in Annapolis and all, I have some family in the area and whenever I visit it's like stepping into another world coming from my more rural roots.
Did you go immediately after high school, what is the age range like in students? Only other thing I'm left to wonder is what's the music scene like? I know there's choir but to your knowledge is there any other kinds of musical activity on campus?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:15:12 2018 No.12150316 >>12150301 你说什么?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:18:26 2018 No.12150333 >>12150316 "To kill", pronounced "lù", however depending on the readers' interpretation could also mean "the path", or "the deer", as both are also pronounced "lù" to devastating connotation not dissimilar to the poetry of Mallarmé

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:24:09 2018 No.12150369

>>12150315
>whenever I visit it's like stepping into another world coming from my more rural roots
I felt this too. It's a real cozy place to be.

I did go immediately after high school. By my senior year I was locked on to the college. I think the brochure this year said the age range was 15-65. Mostly, though, I'd say it averages to about 22-25.
The music scene is pretty active. There are some fringe meet ups here and there for bands. We have a concert band, too. I play trombone. I think some guys go out and perform in some of the local venues.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:27:48 2018 No.12150393 >>12141846 University of Toronto I shouldn't have gone to the University of Toronto Nothing

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 18:30:05 2018 No.12150409 >>12148668 I'm here 4free and I'm really smart/have drive. Additionally my school isn't shit and it cares for its own. Keep falling for the STEM meme, kid

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 19:02:37 2018 No.12150554 >>12148635 >>12150393 I got into Rothman but choose to go to Ryerson last minute because I got my 90s with a shit work ethic and now I REALLY regret my life choices

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 19:06:58 2018 No.12150572 >>12145092 hi john

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 19:07:20 2018 No.12150573 >>12150393 Care to elaborate? I'm currently in the process of applying to grad school at UofT. What should I be worried about?

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 19:41:40 2018 No.12150743

>>12148973
>>12149142
That's the thing. I do enjoy learning and am above 100 iq. I don't wish to proclaim any higher than average intelligence but math comes easy for me and I'm generally pretty quick when it comes to science. I'd to make as much money as my father does (lower six digits) and do not wish to stay within academia. I'm thinking something within comp sci would suffice? I enjoy philosophy but lol that doesn't pay the bills! I'd also like to meet more like-minded or capable minds. Sounds cliche but come from a relatively small town with a culture I find no solace in. Want a reason to leave.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 19:44:08 2018 No.12150756 >>12148333 I took a Chinese Lit class for my Asian Studies degree and forgot just about every writer except Lu Xun

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 19:57:05 2018 No.12150827 >>12150573 What are you applying for anon? I did my undergrad and MA at UofT. You should definitely talk to grad students at the department/uni you apply to no matter where you're thinking of going. It's good to get the inside scoop.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 19:57:59 2018 No.12150829

>>12143014
>shoo-in for a transfer into Stanford
The transfer acceptance rate is lower than normal admissions -- what makes you a shoo-in?

I've visited W before and I liked the atmosphere. Can't speak to its English program but it seems like you'll have more attention from profs and stuff because of smaller class sizes. In school near Boston so I can speak more about Mass if you'd like

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 20:01:21 2018 No.12150848 >>12148208 Duke probably

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 20:05:10 2018 No.12150872 UCLA Physics David Copperfield

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 20:06:20 2018 No.12150883

>>12150573
I'm still an undergrad, so maybe it gets better, but so far almost every history and english course I've taken has seemed very political. Professor seem to enjoy thrusting 21st century concepts on ancient history, going on long tangents about feminism, colonialism and imperialism when describing, for example, the roman empire or the british empire

I'm not a /pol/fag, but hearing my ancestors being shit on for four semesters gets really tiring. I wouldn't want a professor who was full 14/88 gas the jews tier right wing, but hearing self proclaimed communists mostly ignore the achievements of civilizations whose existence directly lead to our own, and instead choose to demonify those cultures is kind of painful, especially since I'm paying for these courses out of pocket

I just want to learn history, I don't need to be "woke" about how Augustus was actually the worst human being to have ever lived

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 20:51:04 2018 No.12151093

>>12143625
I go to an Ivy.

I agree that the admissions process is fucked, and a lot of the elite nature of the university, at least in my experience, is somewhat performative. That said, the idea that people at lower-tier schools are somehow more intelligent as a result of this is laughably misguided. The world is FULL of glass eyed-normies, and they're going to be everywhere, Ivies and community colleges alike. Yes, many people here are status-obsessed and not particularly aware. But at the same time, almost everyone I have encountered here is EXTREMELY talented in at least one, if not more, fields; students are for the most part VERY well-read; and I've run into FAR more people who I can relate to intellectually, including several who I believe to be actual geniuses, than I ever did at home.

And by the way, you may doubt the quality of the education, but this past semester my literature course has read (either selections from or in entirety) The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Metamorphoses, The Symposium, The Bible, Aristophanes, The Oresteia, and Sophocles.

Stop comforting yourself with this pseud backwater white trash outsider seething resentment narrative. Not getting into good schools doesn't make you smart. Everyone who thought this post was good is a fucking idiot.

I don't go here because I think the school is *that* much better than others. I go here because *other* people think that, which looks good on my resume. If I'm going to make a living as a writer, one of the best things I can do is attend a university with prestige in the public perception, not to mention faculty with connections. It's a game, sure, but I'll play if the other option is to study some soulless money-making work somewhere else.

You are thoroughly mediocre. Stop believing this fairy tale that you are anything but that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 20:53:27 2018 No.12151104 >>12151093 I wouldn’t read your works based off your arrogance and feigned superiority. Good luck though. I’m sure you’ll have enough books to keep you warm through the winter.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 20:58:01 2018 No.12151119

>>12151104
I don't think I'm better than you. I think that anyone who's fallen this hard for the "liberal universities" meme needs to be checked.

Look, like I said, almost everyone everywhere is fucking brain-dead and asleep and sorely lacking in critical thinking. But acting like the pseudo-faux elitism of Ivies somehow makes people who don't go to one MORE intelligent is simply delusional. Uni is a game. And going to an Ivy is a pretty good choice if you have to play.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 20:59:20 2018 No.12151124
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I am confused whether all the top-tier uni names in this thread bullshit or not.
I mean, why would an anonymous shitposting board will have crowds from Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley, Austin? Sense machine br0ke

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 20:59:31 2018 No.12151125
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Starting at College of Charleston next semester
Planning to study classics, probably gonna double major
Right now I'm reading the Coddling of the American Mind, and a couple poems by Catullus

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:01:34 2018 No.12151131 >>12151124 Why wouldn't they? It's not that hard to get into these universities. And it's not surprising that users of a forum dedicated to literature are more academic than most populations.

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:02:01 2018 No.12151134

>>12151124
I browse 4chan because I'm a secret degenerate social outcast who's managed to game his way into a good uni. I hate you people and your idiotic bigotry and general hostility, but I also hate all these normie liberal fucks who've never challenged their ideology in their lives.

Oh well. I'm too numb to kms

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:05:15 2018 No.12151146

>>12151119
Only if you’re a minority.

I can tell that you’ve gotten pretty good at bullshitting. It’s been known that a large percentage of the population are idiots. Even idiots know this. Uni is also not a game. It’s what you make of it. I know some scarily bright minds who’ve went the CC route and are making six figures with excellent upward mobility opportunities. Put that aside. Knowing people is one thing. Bonding with people is another and way more important. I’m just an anon on an anime body-pillow enthusiast congregation, but I hope for your sake you don’t end up “in” with a group of people that filture the purity of the light that makes this all worth it before it has a chance to reach you. Godspeed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:06:16 2018 No.12151154 >>12151119 How does the general teaching method in top 1% unis vary from 'normal' unis?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:06:18 2018 No.12151155 >>12151134 Nah you’re just too pussy to challenge your dumb ideology

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:12:19 2018 No.12151172 File: 15 KB, 191x201, 8202454976_3702ab4dac_m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12151131 >Acceptance rates less than 5% >'not hard to get into'

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:17:25 2018 No.12151194

>>12151155
If what you mean by my "ideology" is that I dislike the bigotry of 4chan...

...you do realize that that bigotry is its own contrarian ideology that you've fooled yourself into thinking is more "awake" or "intellectually honest" simply on the basis that dumb liberals disagree with it for the wrong reasons.

God I hate this website. It's full of absolute ingrates.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:20:21 2018 No.12151205 File: 46 KB, 420x160, Logo_of_Deep_Springs_College.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You're not truly /lit/ if you didn't matriculate here

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:21:20 2018 No.12151212

>>12151194
>>12151194
I was prodding you. Why do you still subject yourself to this you fucking masochist? You’re tilting at windmills. Close this tab, and any other involving social media or 4chan and never come back. This will be your pact to me and mine to you, dear stranger.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:27:11 2018 No.12151249 >>12151205 you don't go there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:28:56 2018 No.12151259 >>12151093 >i'm just, like, more intelligent maaan :)

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:29:59 2018 No.12151270 Cambridge, Trinity Mathematics Singapore Story

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:36:25 2018 No.12151307 >>12151172 5% is a pretty big percentage you retard. They let in thousands of people per year, and you're surprised that a handful of them, from several years, post on this popular board on this popular site?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:38:08 2018 No.12151320 >>12141846 Yale. Literature. Hunger Games (for the 3rd time).

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:38:59 2018 No.12151325 >>12151320 Kys

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:41:36 2018 No.12151339 >>12151134 Same. This whole place went from South Park style edgy ironic humor to being infested with genuine dickheads.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:43:01 2018 No.12151351 >>12151325 Jealous because I'm rich and I can afford Yale and you can't? ;D

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:45:51 2018 No.12151361 >>12151351 I'm not American luckily, so I don't have to go to class with the kikes luckily

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:52:14 2018 No.12151374 Some random ass shit school in Vietnam studying Mechanical Eng. Quitted my 9to5 job to study this and am kinda regreting it. Wells' War of the worlds, totally blew my mind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:52:30 2018 No.12151375 Federal University of Ceara (Brazil) Agronomic Engineering Musashi of Eiji Yoshikawa

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:54:51 2018 No.12151393 >>12151249 Yeah but I'm also retarded

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 21:55:01 2018 No.12151394

>>12150829
>what makes you a shoo-in?
A metric fuckton of extracurriculars (journalism, publishing) and publications in reputable literary magazines. I was also a linguist in the USAF. I heard Stanford liked ex-mil, so I turned my sights onto them a while back.

Yeah, I heard Williams has a student-prof ratio of somewhere around 7.0, which is way more than ideal for me. What's Massachusetts like? I love the state, speaking from an American history lover's POV, but I also loved how traditional and cozy the whole place felt when I visited.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 22:16:02 2018 No.12151496 >>12151270 How's Maths undergrad? Will I enjoy it if I liked Maths in A levels?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 23:10:25 2018 No.12151729 File: 308 KB, 1024x1024, moo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12141846 University of Texas B.S. in Mathematics The Structure of Value, by Hartman

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 23:17:33 2018 No.12151760 >>12151394 Where do you go right now?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 23:23:47 2018 No.12151786 Syracuse anyone?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 23:54:57 2018 No.12151884 >>12151760 Two community colleges in the SF Bay Area

Anonymous Wed Nov 28 23:55:22 2018 No.12151887

>>12151093
I go to small state university in my home town, and my lit course has read most of the same books you listed. It's pretty reductive to base the quality of your education on the books you're reading. A good lit class is small, talkative, and has a good professor to guide the conversations along loosely. The homework is rigorous but allows for mistakes to be made. My sister claims that the lit classes she took at Lehigh were alienating and dumb, but she's an engineer so idk. I imagine ivy league schools as an extreme of either lax or rigorous.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 23:57:08 2018 No.12151894 >>12151124 >Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley, Austin One of these things is not like the others

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 28 23:58:24 2018 No.12151897 >>12141859 please tell me I didn't take a class with an unironic neo-nazi

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 00:08:49 2018 No.12151930

Temple
Comp Sci
I dunno if i want out or what. I'm good enough at math and problem solving to be good at programming and it's interesting, but i don't know if I want to be stuck in a super competitive field where the passion isn't 100 percent there. Hesitant to do any humanities tho because of job opportunities and such.
desu I wish I could just walk into a company, start on the ground shitty floor and work my way up to a decent salary over 5 or so years while reading what I want on the side instead of college.
end faggy blog I'm just unsure if there's anything I love enough to risk making a career out of it through acedemia

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 00:09:23 2018 No.12151932

>>12141846
North Dakota State University
Majoring in Psychology
The Republic and Mason & Dixon

I have only read a couple philosophy books, but I'm really enjoying them, and I think I might want to study more philosophy, is it a ba idea to change my major? I'm just in my first year and psychology is just what interested me the most at the time (I used to work a lot with troubled kids in high school)

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 00:10:47 2018 No.12151942

>>12150827
English, planning on doing a focus on the early modern or post modern. I've talked to profs at my school that went to UofT and all have regarded it positively, though that was a 10-20 years ago.

>>12150883
That's fair. Part of my concern is that UofT has become politically reactionary after the whole Peterson thing. Luckily my current school (Dalhousie) is pretty good when it comes to dealing with these issues. Even in classes that I've taken that have been cross-listed as gender studies have left the debate open. Still, I tend to sympathize more with second-wave feminists than third wave, but it tends to go over well with the profs. I'll keep that in mind when I apply though.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 00:47:48 2018 No.12152067

>>12151124
Basically this >>12151134
It wasnt even hard for me to get into my uni, they were forced to admit me due to some bs rule about automatic admission to students ranking in the top 7% of their high school class, even though my high school was in the ghetto and 85% idiots and future drug dealers

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 00:59:49 2018 No.12152114 File: 370 KB, 1200x1200, 1200px-University_of_Texas_at_Austin_seal.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12151729 >>12141846 UT Finance, might double major Mathematics Being Mortal - Atul Gawande The Idiot - Dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 01:35:50 2018 No.12152265 >>12151884 Good luck getting into Stanford! What's your intended major?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 02:10:09 2018 No.12152380 >>12152265 Right now, they're English and art history; that's why I'm going to two colleges at the moment. I'm gonna have to go with English when I transfer for utility's sake, but it was fun getting an AA in art history.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 02:13:09 2018 No.12152396 >>12152380 this nigga doesn't know grammar lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 02:17:39 2018 No.12152414 >>12152396 What'd I say?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 02:25:18 2018 No.12152439 >tfw can't participate because I go to such a meme university for such a meme degree that I would be easily identifiable

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 02:30:16 2018 No.12152450 >>12152439 What's up Cameron?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 02:36:07 2018 No.12152471 >>12149970 i dont got a discord. but ill add u when i make one

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 02:38:03 2018 No.12152479 >>12149970 >rockinlucy.t@gmail.com whats ur discord tagg?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 03:04:10 2018 No.12152551 >>12152380 What do you intend to do with the degree? Teach? Grad work? >>12152414 No idea what he's on about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 03:17:00 2018 No.12152582 >>12152450 delete this right now

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 03:17:43 2018 No.12152585 >.org >board full of anglocucks what went wrong?

>>	I Go !2HARVARdHk Thu Nov 29 03:20:32 2018 No.12152592 >>12152114 >>12151729 UT math was my backup school! :D

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 03:22:36 2018 No.12152596 >>12152439 Yo cam, what's up my man?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 03:30:46 2018 No.12152621 >>12141846 self-taught (lol fuck uni) blockchain engineering i dont read, audiobooks, just the characters of great men: caesar, napolean, hannibal, etc

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 03:49:09 2018 No.12152661

>>12152551
I've been so focused on class work and writing that I haven't really pondered that question too often. At this point, I think I'm going to do something in publishing. I'm the editor for both my campus's newspaper and its lit. mag, and I've enjoyed the experience so far. I've still got a few years to figure things out.

Are you still the guy who lives in Massachusetts?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 04:14:38 2018 No.12152729 >>12150304 >posh Hahahaha Physics fag here.. my dad stacks shelves and my mum is a teaching assistant at a secondary school. Keep dreaming. >>12152479 dextromethorphan#1072 Yeahhh I went through a phase.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 04:19:48 2018 No.12152741 >>12152729 >My white collar upper middle class parents aren't even CLOSE to being the richest people in my neighborhood! Keep projecting, dirtbag

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 04:21:47 2018 No.12152753 >>12152741 I'm not physicsfag but nice backpedal nigga lmao

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 05:01:05 2018 No.12152869

>>12152661
No, I'm the College of Charleston guy from a little further up.
And yeah without a doubt, there's plenty of time to decide. I've thought about doing some kind of editing myself, probably not as a career but perhaps as a side gig. I have the attention to detail and knowledge of conventions to be a good copy editor I think.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 05:07:20 2018 No.12152884 University of Southern California Econ Notes from Underground

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 05:39:36 2018 No.12152942

>>12152869
Neat. That's where my friend went.

Copy editing is a lot of fun, man. I started out as one for the paper, and you definitely get your money's worth with how much reading and editing you have to do. I don't know about how the career is in the real world, however. The adviser for our paper talked to me about how the copy editing position is eventually going to be dissolved and distributed as a task to all reporters and editors.

All in all, it's a pretty easy and a low-stress position.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 06:07:55 2018 No.12152988

>>12152942
That's cool, what did he study?

Yeah I might see if I can get that position at CofC's student paper if there is one. I like grammar anyway even if some people see it as a bit dry, so it's oddly soothing to read a piece of copy and look for mistakes.
That or I'm just a pedant, but chicken and egg I suppose.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 06:42:08 2018 No.12153053

>>12152988
She studied classics. Small world, man.

You won't need to employ the more advanced technicalities involved with grammar since journalistic writing is naturally simple and seldom needs much revision in the first place if your reporters are worth even a quarter of their weight in salt. You just need to have a eagle's eye and to be comfortable reading manuscripts over and over again. I came into the position as a greenhorn thinking I'd be able to show off, but the most advanced concept that I had to use was how antecedents interact with pro-forms and which verb tense to use with them. 99% of all issues in the manuscripts involved misspellings, stylistic issues, and incorrect punctuation. Nothing really interesting.

Half the work is reading the manuscripts, and the other half is checking the AP style guide. Though, there were some days where I spent the whole time at the press literally rewriting entire articles because the editor didn't have the balls to tell the reporter that she didn't know how to write in comprehensible English. You'll have to do a lot of fact checking as well.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 09:24:56 2018 No.12153532

>>12150275
我也开始学习今年。你在哪儿学习汉语?
对不起,因为我也是第一年级生,所以我看不懂中文书。可是明年我到中国大学去,我在哪儿住一年。之后,我希望学会文言文!

我可以给你几本书:
Water Margin: it's one of the Big Four for a reason. It's remarkable how much thought the author put into realising every single character as their own unique individual. [Don't use Pearl S. Buck's translation]
Six Records of a Floating Life: absolute comfycore. A middle class Qing dynasty scholar approaches middle age and writes about his life thus far. His account of how he fell in love with his wife is so cute my God.
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: a collection of fairy-tales and urban legends that inspired Kafka and Borges (and you can tell). [Minford's translation for Penguin is still the best]
Investiture of the Gods: balls to the walls dumb Daoist fantasy bullshit. It's great. [there's only one full translation AFAIK, and it's usually expensive as fuck. And it's not online.]
Jin Ping Mei: decadent self-destruction filled with erotic taboo-breaking, only it's from late Ming China instead of late Victorian France.
Unofficial History of the Literati: some madman takes the piss out of his entire social class. Really funny.

Alas, most of these I couldn't find a good translation for the whole thing. Hence why I'm xueing the zhongwens.

Archchinese万岁。Allsetlearning万岁!

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 09:28:59 2018 No.12153548 >>12151093 Nice cope for student loans

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 09:35:54 2018 No.12153576 Some nordic communist university CS (not counter strike) rereading some of my favourites

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 09:52:00 2018 No.12153649 Austin Peay Engrish Shit for classes. Not enough time to read for pleasure at the moment.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 10:19:36 2018 No.12153748 >>12151942 Toronto is a fucking SJW nightmare. It's totally dominated by hardcore ideologues of that persuasion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 10:22:15 2018 No.12153761 >>12151093 >tfw in one more month I have to teach another class full of 40+ of people exactly like this Please god no more

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 10:22:23 2018 No.12153762 >>12153748 can confirm, although things are somewhat tolerable if you stay away from areas where identity politics is prevalent

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 10:29:00 2018 No.12153791 >>12153532 >time after the verb I have committed a grave dishonour.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 11:48:15 2018 No.12154152
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>>12149412
Well, you could say that after that I'll make or join some political group so yeah, I know that law school is just right around the corner, but honestly, it's a bunch boring useless shit and I happen to like philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 12:07:10 2018 No.12154216 >>12149967 What the fuck is 41st?

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 12:07:30 2018 No.12154219

>>12151394
Those are some good achievements, hope you make it in man!

Saw you're from the Bay too (am the guy from Mass). Anyway I'd overall agree about the coziness: the small town feel in Western Mass is very nice, and on the other side in Boston, the city's pretty quaint and walkable. But at the same time I think this state is diverse enough to warrant not generalizing it too much, similar to the differences between coastal/inland California or norcal/socal.

As much as I like home It's nice to get out of Bay for a while at least

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 12:35:23 2018 No.12154346 >>12141846 University of Tulsa Trying to figure that shit out The Apology of Socrates

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 12:44:03 2018 No.12154411 >>12144091 Used to go there, never should've left. Oxford is fucking peak comfy literary town

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 12:45:48 2018 No.12154418 >>12154411 nigga there's no way you went there with reading comprehension like that my family's moving into Oxford in a couple of weeks btw

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 13:18:46 2018 No.12154576

>>12141846
Just got accepted to a small liberal arts college, planning to double major in philosophy + something that can make money. I'm unsure what to do for the second major. I've thought about economics, since I assume it could easily be enriched by philosophy, but I don't know much about the discipline. Math is another idea, but I don't know much about its professional implications either. I would appreciate. Advice would be appreciated. I apologize if this is the wrong thread to ask for advice, but I figure this community would be a little more informed than /adv/.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 13:21:19 2018 No.12154602 >>12144675 actually based

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 13:23:44 2018 No.12154622
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Comparative literature, philosophy minor

Marx's 1844 Manuscripts
Mark Fisher - Ghosts of My Life
Hardt and Negri - Multitude
Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition
Bits and pieces of various anthologies, essay/short story collections, etc.

Can't wait to fulfill my childhood dream of working at Barnes and Noble in two years. Maybe, just maybe, I can work my way up to management!

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 13:41:23 2018 No.12154712 >>12154576 >since I assume it could easily be enriched by philosophy Not really. Economics (degrees) operate from an assumed philosophical point of view, and that point of view is the bog standard modern western liberal one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 13:42:23 2018 No.12154720 >>12154576 Oh yeah, and maths is not a great degree for job prospects. CS is alright if you wanna still be a humanities dude, because you can either make decent money or make no money making your own vidya.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 13:43:56 2018 No.12154736 >>12144808 I'm at Columbia too. English and Classics major. What year are you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 14:21:38 2018 No.12154905 >>12154576 If you're at a top tier liberal arts you can do the meme careers of i-banking or consulting with any degree, really. Feel free to ask if you have more qs since I had similar concerns, went from humanities -> stem -> humanities

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 14:34:48 2018 No.12154964
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>>12152741
>upper middle class

HAHAHAHAHA

What do you think a teaching assistant is? It's a professional photocopier.

I live in a council house l m a o

I know people who are upper middle class (since going to Oxford). Their parents are academics or TV producers, or documentary filmers, and they live in exquisitely-decorated houses in London. One of them went to one of the most prestigious private schools in England.

That's upper middle-class.

But, you know, keep the delusions float your low self-esteem a little higher.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 14:39:48 2018 No.12154980 >>12154964 what private school, exactly?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 15:02:02 2018 No.12155090 Université de Sherbrooke Philosophy On Crimes and Punishments - Beccaria

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 15:38:03 2018 No.12155254 File: 3 KB, 125x119, 1452902329969s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12155090 Any other Quebec dude here?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 15:38:59 2018 No.12155257 >>12155254 repeat that in Arabic and you might get a hit

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 15:40:08 2018 No.12155265 >>12143625 >>"No!" Good meme, my friend.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 15:47:10 2018 No.12155294 Wilfrid Laurier University here Business Administration Reading McLuhan & Gombrich atm >>12142751 When we doing the Waterloo meetup

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 16:09:54 2018 No.12155390 >>12154964 I mean, my dad went to one of the most prestigious private schools in England, but I wouldn't call him upper-middle-class. Just middle-middle-class. Then again, that was IN Oxford, so who knows.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 16:36:16 2018 No.12155485 University of Illinois at Chicago Computer science Pnin

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 16:41:24 2018 No.12155511 >>12142281 almost identical to be but im in NC and reading Poor Folk

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 16:45:36 2018 No.12155535 >>12142796 homo cope, enjoy your debt

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 16:51:51 2018 No.12155582

>>12143625
I got a perfect score on the SAT and had a finished novel at age 16; I was also the elected chairman of my local regional Youth Red Cross and spent two years managing 300+ volunteers across one of the most populated regions on the east coast. I did two varsity athletics and was president of my school’s model UN and philosophy club.

My parents were lower-middle class, white, and Christian. I was rejected from Harvard, Yale, and Brown. I saw an Indian drooling idiot with multimillionaire parents on the school bord accepted to Yale; he had no extracurriculars; was president of nothing; and had a GPA of 3.4. But his parents were rich and powerful and he was a minority.

The idea that these places are merit-based sickens me, as do the smug senator’s sons that flaunt it at every opportunity.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:00:34 2018 No.12155637 >>12154964 >being this fucking delusional I suppose you think the upper class is exclusively generals, senators, and multi-billionaires, huh? Get some fucking perspective. Being the poorest person in a country club doesn’t make you blue collar

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:10:52 2018 No.12155689 Third world latin american university no one here heard of Literary criticism Goethe's Faust

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:12:21 2018 No.12155694 >>12147771 ur real to me

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:13:48 2018 No.12155700 >>12154964 HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT THAT'S UPPER CLASS

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:16:42 2018 No.12155714 >>12148397 >maritime engineering Sounds interesting, is it focused on watercraft structural engineering or something else?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:19:26 2018 No.12155737 >>12153532 我在芝加哥大学。我明年也要去中国。

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:29:19 2018 No.12155774 LSE IR/History Introduction to the Philosophy of History by Raymond Aron >>12148873 ug or pg?

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:33:30 2018 No.12155792

Reminder that university is where wealthy children go to get their class membership cards and make mom and dad proud because they were too busy playing video games, dicking around online and/or getting high to actually think about what they would like to do for a living, want to elongate their childhood by 5 years, and be smugly proud of themselves for doing it as if it wasnt literally the easiest and most obvious option on the table.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:36:10 2018 No.12155804 >>12155792 should i drop out and work a river barge? im not interested at all in any of the "careers", not making any connections either

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:39:51 2018 No.12155821
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>>12155637
Erm, what did I actually say though? I don't think I mentioned any multi-billionaires. No, I know I didn't mention any. I don't know any.

> country club

What the fuck is that?

>blue collar

If stacking shelves at Sainsbury's isn't "blue collar", I don't know what is. Oh wait, he doesn't even live in the house or donate income for me or my brother any more. My mistake for including him in my ancestry. And my mum makes even less than him.

Not sure what you're trying to prove, because my parents are objectively working-class. No, I'm not homeless, though I suppose I could have been at one point. Thing is, not living in the pits of destitution does not negate my background. Most people in my primary and secondary schools were somehow better off than me. Not complaining, my mum was good with money, and it never seemed like a big deal. But you're barking up the wrong tree. What is it? You want to believe that Oxford is more exclusionary than it already is? That someone couldn't possibly prove themselves in an entrance test and interview? Because you could. It's only your attitude that is leaving you behind.

>>12155700
Nope, upper class is the landed gentry. People with genteel ancestry. Who will barely have to work a day in their lives, and will at least inherit a significant sum of money. Get your facts right.

My Oxfriends don't live in mansions.. just houses way nicer than I'd ever seen before, or even imagined desu.

My homefriends live with their parents, not having pursued higher education due to fucked up home lives. Obviously, Oxford admissions do not catch people like this, because they don't apply.. they don't have A-levels. Their economic background is not any better or worse than mine.

upper-middle-class. top lol.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 17:57:42 2018 No.12155927

>>12155821
This
working class people (and Americans in general) can't comprehend the layers of classhood.

anyway there's a weird subset of working class people who act, in most ways, middle class. Like they appreciate middle class things and expect their kids to go to uni and save up for interesting non-resort holidays. My gf comes from one such family, even though her parents' combined income is about half my dad's.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 18:03:34 2018 No.12155966 >>12155737 >芝加哥呸! 美国人…… 好吧,明年你要去哪人?我觉得上海交通大学教的很好,可是因为我喜欢历史我喜欢北京。我不知道去哪儿。

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 18:06:38 2018 No.12155988

>>12155927
Yeah, people definitely have different cultural backgrounds, and that is more important in feeding education than class itself. I was very lucky to have a mother who went to university, and values knowledge (to a degree). Sadly her qualifications never led to anything, but I did have an advantage over people whose parents don't read books. Well my dad doesn't read, but I don't live with him. What I'm trying to say is, my mum bought books instead of video games and consoles. Everyone else had the latest Xbox 3 million or whatever.. especially the middle class kids! Not us.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 18:09:31 2018 No.12156005

>>12155988
Pretty much. Some people get out of the trap, but only because of good teachers (from what my gf says, anyway). Fuck, she's becoming a tutor to get some more income, and they warn trainees that they might have to tutor kids who might not know the Victorians didn't have TV because they've just never been exposed to any worthwhile media.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 18:16:14 2018 No.12156043

>>12155804
Break the rope. Go live on your own, no bankwires from mom and dad. Pick a job you think will work. Try a bunch of different jobs. Travel, read, meet different types of people, get out of your comfort zone, go hiking, blah blah

Just do a whole lot of shit because you literally have no idea what possibilities life contains and you have no idea what income you really need/want, what work you find fulfilling etc.

College is always there if you decide to go.

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 18:23:14 2018 No.12156078

>>12156005
Yep, good teachers are like gold dust. Far too rare. I wanna get into primary school teaching perhaps, so I can untap kids' potential & curiosity before it's too late.

Sadly my brother went and got addicted to PC games anyway, potentially because he has an ASD (undiagnosed). He's studying maths at Warwick cos he's bloody clever but he's struggling because his time management skills are shit. Mine too, but at least I'm not addicted to any games atm.

>might not know the Victorians didn't have TV

God.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 18:54:34 2018 No.12156226 >>12155966 我要去北京。我的大学那有一个好外国学program。

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 19:07:20 2018 No.12156299 >>12156226 我也猜你明年去北京,哈哈。北京哪个大学?在北京我们只可以去北京师范大学。

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 19:10:17 2018 No.12156313 >>12156299 人民大学

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 20:06:31 2018 No.12156592 >>12156313 Well, then, maybe I'll see you next year. If I do go to Beijing, I'll be on the look out for an obese American reading Infinite Jest.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 22:22:30 2018 No.12157153 emory bio, political science socratic dialogues + to the lighthouse

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 29 23:36:58 2018 No.12157479 University of Wisconsin econ + philos symposium

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 30 00:11:32 2018 No.12157632 >>12144580 The thread hit the bump limit but me too anon. Which campus? I'm RH and I hate it here.

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