/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13698607]

I know y'all are lurking while pretending to study in Lamont. Anyone wants to start a literary movement?

[Anonymous No.13698615]

>>13698607
>Lamont
pleb-tier. you can do better than that.

[Anonymous No.13698623]

>>13698615
If Widener was 24 hr and not spooky as shit at night I'd be there

[Anonymous No.13698626]

>>13698623
Widener is also pleb-tier. Lurk moar (around campus to find the golden spots for studying)

[Anonymous No.13698631]

>>13698615
the science library was better - but the little cafe in the center suuuuucked.

[Anonymous No.13698632]

>>13698631
you mean the new Cabot science library? not sure what you're referring to

[Anonymous No.13698649]

>>13698632
yeah, Cabot. Before the renovations - I don't know what it looks like now.

Was like all 70s and terrible which meant no one was there to bother me/talk too loud so I could study in peace.

[Anonymous No.13698668]

LOL gotta love studying at the ratty XD

[Anonymous No.13698677]

>>13698649
ah. I just go in and reserve the closed booths for my usual studying hours. it's mostly soundproof and comfy (at least for me). there's also a bunch of random nooks, crannies, and other neglected rooms around campus which are pretty good. take some time when you're bored to explore every dorm. you'll be surprised at how shitty some dorms can be *cough* Cabot *cough* and what cool hidden spaces you might find.

for example, one of my favorite spaces was the solarium on the top floor of Weld. it's in a central location, it's warm, and usually people don't use it for some reason, which makes it great for drop-in studying during the winter months. I haven't been back since freshman year though because I felt that would be a bit creepy. I wouldn't even know if my card would grant me access to the building still lol.

[Anonymous No.13698860]

>>13698607
Rec me a good art school in the US where I can learn how to sculpt like the old masters, non of that contemporary gay shit. I'm rich so I don't want to hear poorfag freak out about going to university not trying to become a wagecuck. I just want to spend my life carving marble and fucking art hoes, not making a statement on queer bodies in the Wisconsin boonies using garbage bags and Puerto Rican foreskins

[Anonymous No.13698997]

wow guys

[Anonymous No.13699014]

I go to Harvard. I just want to tell the guy who always sits 2 rows in front of me in astrophysics that I see you lurking on /lit/ in class. You may turn your screen brightness down, but I can still see your screen. Also, stop posting in Guenonthreads, I’ve seen you do it

[Anonymous No.13699016]

>>13699014
that's fucking based as all hell, keep doing it

[Anonymous No.13699020]

>tfw a guy you thought you respected had to ask Prof. Kelly for assurance that taking his Heidegger class wouldn't turn him into a Nazi

[Anonymous No.13699082]

>>13698607
Actually I was memorizing Gordon Wood passages.

[Anonymous No.13699165]

>going to the library
Your time would be better spent at the HFA, and it's (almost always) free for students

[Anonymous No.13699175]

Hahahaha laughing at all the faggots itt who will never amount to anything

[Anonymous No.13699207]

Fucking shameful that all of you Ivy League fruits are around yet the level of discourse on this board remains about what I'd expect from country bumpkins in their first year of community college who developed an interest in literature after being disgruntled that the black guy in To Kill a Mockingbird didn't get lynched. Anyways I go to Columbia

[Anonymous No.13699238]

>>13699175
Laughing at you for thinking that marching lockstep with the perennial march of Human Vanity is the only way to walk about one's day

[Anonymous No.13699359]

>>13699207
not your personal intellectual. I’ll keep /pol/posting until one of you pseuds confronts me with some posturing libshit argument. then, you’ll get to experience the full force of my HYPSM-tier IQ

[Anonymous No.13699362]

>>13699359
Here's what you just said: bluh bluh bluh bluh durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Also IQ doesn't real

[Anonymous No.13699373]

>>13699362
that’s probably why you ended up slumming it at Columbia with the rest of the degenerates instead of going to a patrician’s Ivy

[Anonymous No.13699379]

>>13699014
lol, based Harvard Guenonposter

[Anonymous No.13699385]

>>13699373
lol if you think that any university is "patrician." There is no 21st century republic of letters: there's only a few good minds and a few good books, and you have nothing to do with either, I can say that much

[Anonymous No.13700071]

What's the Porcellian like?

[Anonymous No.13700137]

>>13698607
Lol midwest state school or bust buddy

[Anonymous No.13700152]

>>13700137
I will also add, consistently the most intelligent individuals I've met are from state schools. Ivy leagues are homes to the very well-conditioned within the time horizon that's relevant to generating capital, state school (the few and the not so proud) smarties would view the conditioning in a time horizon of say a generation or two, so as to realize the self-flagellation needed for entrance into an ivy league is simply too steep, and results in a type of fractured mentality that degrades and pains the next generation by unduly siphoning off love into exertions to create wealth, status, or grandeur.

[Anonymous No.13700207]

Where my /columbia/ niggas at?

>>13700152
Cope

[Anonymous No.13700282]

>>13700152
>consistently the most intelligent
>consistence
>intelligence
How congruent can they seem before we degrade our model of the human being?

[Anonymous No.13700307]

>>13700207
Not an argument
>>13700282
A bad argument

[Anonymous No.13700321]

>>13700282
Rolling

[Anonymous No.13700412]

>>13700137
absolutely based

[Anonymous No.13700605]

[Anonymous No.13702394]

>>13700605
based

[Anonymous No.13702418]

>>13698607
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY IVY FAGS HERE? ESPECIALLY HARVARD AND COLUMBIA?

I THOUGHT THIS BOARD WAS FOR RETARDS

[Anonymous No.13702422]

>>13702418
lol we are retards, just slightly less retarded than your average /lit/fag

[Anonymous No.13702424]

>>13700605
>tfw west coast, engineering, and asian
I wish I had some irl /lit/ friends. I have one, and it's nice talking to him. He's not /lit/ but still very intelligent.

[Anonymous No.13702425]

>>13699207
I go to Columbia anon. Let’s start a literary movement. Meet me in Butler Stacks 11

[Anonymous No.13702431]

>>13702422
Are people at Ivy League just braindead then? Or are you guys all shit students?

[Anonymous No.13702434]

>>13702425
Make sure you two kill off the minority characters in a matter that agrees with ethnicity.

[Anonymous No.13702436]

Yes, if you ever see someone on 4chang at Lamont say hi, it is ME

[Anonymous No.13702464]

>>13702418
we have to act smart all day so we come here to retardpost to see how the other side lives

[Anonymous No.13702474]

>>13702464
Post something smart slut. I want to see your galaxy brain.

[Anonymous No.13702475]

>>13702431
People at Ivy Leagues are pretentious. It's all about lifestyle. There are people in unknown, poorly ranked universities doing brilliant work (in STEM, at least).
You can go to a top university and still feel like you're surrounded by idiots. Then by Junior year you realize that you're and idiot too.

[Anonymous No.13702486]

>>13702425
I want to be part of a literary movement but I'm on the west coast.

[Anonymous No.13702489]

>>13702436
If you ever see somebody cringe at you while they're walking past, don't say hi, because that's me and I don't want to be associated with you

[Anonymous No.13702498]

>>13702486
What school anon? If Stanford, we can include you in our pretentious circlejerks

[Anonymous No.13702524]

>>1370248
not Stanford. SoCal. It's on the list in >>13700605.

[Anonymous No.13702533]

>>13702524

meant for >>13702498

[Anonymous No.13702538]

Where my WashU boys at?

[Anonymous No.13702542]

>>13702533
CalTech is based, but I thought you were all illiterates. You got a throwaway email or something?

[Anonymous No.13702547]

>>13702538
WashU is the biggest fraud from any "top 15" school in the country

[Anonymous No.13702548]

>>13702542
I do: [e-mail]

[Anonymous No.13702554]

>>13702425
I'm game. Got a Discord or any other form of semi-anonymous contact?

[Anonymous No.13702588]

>>13702548
Sent you an e-mail
>>13702554
Got discord. E-mail me your discord or just post it here.

[e-mail]

[Anonymous No.13702617]

>>13702588
Eats Shits and Leaves#2597

[Anonymous No.13702635]

>>13702489
I’ll look out for you so I can follow you and assult you. You sound like a professional at getting bullied.

[Anonymous No.13702643]

>>13702617
Added

[Anonymous No.13702660]

>ivy faggots networking
>non ivy fags sour

Just a reminder that the ability to explore and understand complicated ideas comes secondary to those who aspire after fame and/or fortune.

[Anonymous No.13702664]

>>13702635
I'm /fitlit/ so that would be a great way to end up in the hospital, you little twink

[Anonymous No.13702666]

>>13702660
You are not incorrect.

[Anonymous No.13702681]

I saw a guy posting on /o/ once.

t. University of Florida alum

[Anonymous No.13702688]

>>13702664
Post body

[Anonymous No.13702692]

>>13702660
>ivy faggots networking
I'm scared the actual influence 4chan is going to have when we have radical white male zoomers on here who go to elite institutions. This needs to be stopped and I hope this fascist shithole is shutdown.

[Anonymous No.13702696]

>>13702692
>unchecked extrapolation: the post
>>13702664
Post body faggot

[Anonymous No.13702699]

>>13700282
Why not. Roll.

[Anonymous No.13702703]

>>13702688
>>13702696
>doxxing yourself on 4chan
you'd be an idiot to do this at an Ivy League school, considering they kick people out every year for sharing edgy memes in private Facebook groups

[Anonymous No.13702711]

>>13702703
Stats? If you’re under 6’3” 220 don’t bother replying.

[Anonymous No.13702725]

>>13702703
No one is going to tell who you are by your fucking abs bro

[Anonymous No.13702733]

>>13702725
I have distinct birthmarks.

[Anonymous No.13702734]

>>13700137
Based, my U of Mich bro with a PhD in computer engineering can destroy any of these pseuds

[Anonymous No.13702739]

>>13702734
>yea just let me call my boy
kek

[Anonymous No.13702744]

>tfw never went to college
Did i miss out?

[Anonymous No.13702770]

What's /lit/'s opinion on college lit circlejercs?

[Anonymous No.13702776]

>>13702770
Does a circle jerk entail more than two people? If it’s just two people, is it a mutually delivered handjob? Define circle jerk.

[Anonymous No.13702785]

>>13702418
/lit/ being a bad board is a meme we deliberately cultivate to keep the plebs off. It's actually the best board on the site by far.
On what other board are you going to see some random shitpost thread where two anons are unironically having a polite debate full of 1000-character posts about Aquinas' Aristotelianism?

[Anonymous No.13702792]

>>13700605
>tfw i've attended two of these unis now

I invented a fun game. Go to any populated place on campus like a cafe, and try to count the definitely gentile white men. First, count off all the gooks and miscellaneous south and west asians. Then, count off all the definite Jews. Then the women. What are you left with?

Remember: All day long at an American university, you are surrounded by kikes, gooks, pakis, all of whom see your homeland as an international hub for their people to congregate, a glorified airport terminal, and then women, who will sell out your homeland to the aforementioned minorities without a second thought because "it's the nice thing to do."

[Anonymous No.13702887]

>>13702418
/lit/ is one of the few decent boards

[Anonymous No.13703035]

>CCfag transferring to Berkeley
lmao u fags

[Anonymous No.13703520]

>>13702692
Don't worry. Our people got it covered.

>>13702792
Gonna be hard to win bro.

[Anonymous No.13703666]

>tfw graduated and don't have a ton of intellectual friends to discuss shit with
Doesn't help that I'm a pretentious shut-in and my job is full of brainletts who just want to bitch about the job that they're doing while they're doing it.

[Anonymous No.13703687]

>>13698607
>Lamont
>he goes to harvard
lmao

[Anonymous No.13703690]

>>13703666
>my job is full of brainletts who just want to bitch about the job that they're doing while they're doing it.
This happens at every job though.

[Anonymous No.13703699]

>>13700605
why is caltech so anti-semitic?

[Anonymous No.13703708]

>>13698668
>>13698607
>>13700207
>he doesn't go to Princeton
lmao

[Anonymous No.13703796]

>>13703708
I had to stay here once for a conference, got a very reddit vibe from the place.

[Anonymous No.13703805]

>>13703796
lmao depends on where you are and who you know but not wrong

[Anonymous No.13703816]

>they don't attend the University of Notre Dame

Fucking casuals

[Anonymous No.13703844]

>american tuition fees
t. ETH-fag

[Anonymous No.13703953]

>>13700207
When are the Columbia anons here forming the next great literary college group?

[Anonymous No.13703975]

>>13703708
Visting a friend at Princeton this fall. Meetup? I'm a HYPfag

[Anonymous No.13703988]

>>13698607
I admit I get jealous of you ivyfags. I went to a state school but got into HYPSM for my PhD and I’m starting this year. I still get salty thinking about what undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Stanford would have been like. I try to tell myself all undergrads are kind of retards but it only makes me feel a tiny bit better.

[Anonymous No.13703996]

>>13703975
it could be in the works, who's the friend?
[e-mail]

[Anonymous No.13704022]

>>13698860
Unironically apply in Eastern Europe. You'll need academic level portfolio to get in, but even their rejects I've met in more Western colleges have been some of the best. Otherwise do an apprenticeship, and do a grand tour. Most good options are going to be cheaper than the US. Is English speaking a deal-breaker?

[Anonymous No.13704031]

>>13703988
These days it's exactly the same as being jealous of kids at $30,000/yr private high schools. Sure, a very rare few kids might be uniquely well-constituted to take perfect advantage of the resources and attention they receive at a school like that. But the vast majority of them are just worthless little faggots whose parents are trying to drown their mediocrity in money and praying they can polish their turd of a child into a diamond. And remember, even the few people who are genuinely exceptional still have to swim through an ocean of turds who think they're exceptional, administered by other turds who obviously don't know how to distinguish between turds and gems (being turds themselves). So a lot of real diamonds are dulled.

And in the end, again as with high school, it's just a transitory phase of life, mostly occupied with shallow socializing, and quickly forgotten. I helped someone borderline retarded write their PhD applications to several Ivy leagues last year and they got into Yale. Meanwhile the three non-retarded grad students I've met all went to state schools because they weren't rich.

It means next to nothing, and what little it does mean is quickly irrelevant. You think people who went to Harvard for a fucking bachelor's degree meaningfully integrate that experience when they're 40? Maybe in terms of networking and nepotism, yeah, but not in any real sense of bildung.

[Anonymous No.13704109]

>tfw really want to go to an ivy for a semester abroad
>no exchange programs
Such is life at EPFL

[Anonymous No.13704149]

>>13702692
Be daring. Break boundaries. Think critically. But not that way. You people are unbelievable

[Anonymous No.13704277]

I went to a school. The most intelligent people were the ones who like only half a dozen people knew because they just happened to be in the same small "meeting with professors constantly not as a status climbing thing but because they genuinely wanted to spend 12 hours a day studying whatever" groups. Sometimes but not always spergs, almost certainly too sincere to internalize ironicposting to the point that they don't even recognize it as such anymore like us pseuds

[Anonymous No.13704301]

>>13703816
Holy based fellow domer, I just moved back in today

[Anonymous No.13704337]

>>13703988
Ha, wait until you teach them.

>>13704031
Only spending 30k... where do you live, Kansas?

[Anonymous No.13704427]

>>13700282
Fuck your dumbass feet pics but rolling

[Anonymous No.13704466]

>>13703035
I'm doing this too. What's your major?

[Anonymous No.13704536]

>>13704031
Cope.

[Anonymous No.13704540]

>>13704536
I teach at one.

[Anonymous No.13704554]

>go to wherever the fuck you want undergrad, even community college
>go to top 10 school for MBA / grad school
literally why waste money going to expensive private school undergrad? you could've studied in europe for a fraction and learned a hell of a lot more from traveling / language studies

[Anonymous No.13704570]

>>13704540
Cornell isn't an Ivy anon.

[Anonymous No.13704625]

>>13704554
Or don't even study, just do a Grand Tour. If you can't get enough contacts from Berlin to Bangkok to get your life sorted, you always have the fail back plan.

[Anonymous No.13704644]

>>13704625
well yes, this is the patrician choice. unfortunately 18 year olds aren't smart enough to see through the smoke and mirrors

[Anonymous No.13704790]

Does anyone know anyone who went to Cornell ILR so that they could say they went to an Ivy

[Anonymous No.13704800]

>>13704540
where then?

[Anonymous No.13704836]

>>13704540
Hey rapture

[Anonymous No.13704878]

Any other Florida fags in the only good humanities school? I've also been told that FAU has really good professors

[Anonymous No.13704899]

>>13698668
any other brownfags want to start a literary movement? The columbia guys already started
(if it makes it easier I've written two novels)

[Anonymous No.13704918]

>>13704899
yes, we will call it "transcendental niggerism"

[Anonymous No.13705035]

>>13704878
UF fag who graduated here. My gf is a humanities major there and hates most of the kids in the program.

[Anonymous No.13705090]

>>13705035
The people in the school for the most part don't care and the location is horrid but the school itself has a really good humanities program. I'm not in FSU but I've toured around and know a few people in it. I'm still debating on what FL school would be the best for me

[Anonymous No.13705100]

>>13705090
>FL school
>best
Well there’s your problem
t. Floridian who goes out of state for college

[Anonymous No.13705128]

Anyone here /UChicago/? It’s not an ivy but it can be pretty cozy and patrician imo.

Haven’t taken any literature classes yet though, so we’ll have to see about that.

[Anonymous No.13705167]

>>13704899
>The columbia guys already started
Who are you talking about? The Beats? Or anons ITT?

[Anonymous No.13705230]

>>13702475
>Then by Junior year you realize that you're and idiot too.
fuck if that ain't the truth. felt kind of liberating for me personally though. it helped that literally all of my friends across several different fields were going through the exact same thing.

[Anonymous No.13705251]

>>13698607
This place is all zoomers from Glownig U
No wonder it's so shit

[Anonymous No.13705255]

>>13700207
yooo nice to see a fellow Columbian, where u study at? Avery or bust

[Anonymous No.13705260]

>>13702734
>UMich
literally every half-braindead Jew i knew in high school ended up there after getting rejected from ivies, it still kind of astonishes me

[Anonymous No.13705261]

>>13705128
I got accepted but my parents didn't want me to go because of the cost

[Anonymous No.13705273]

>>13705261
Yeah, I feel that. At least money wise, know that statistically you’ll be making similar enough wages to other people accepted that actually went. I hope you can find what you’re looking for intellectually though.

[Anonymous No.13705285]

> tfw going to a no name tech school

[Anonymous No.13705289]

>>13705273
I already graduated actually, more than a year ago now. I ended up at a pretty good small private school.

[Anonymous No.13705297]

Hey hardardfags, is the street corner across the street still empty? Last time I was in the area I aaw two homeless people fucking in a church doorway lol
your school is bad and you should feel bad

[Anonymous No.13705298]

>>13699359
>self described intellectual
your not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.13705319]

>tfw go to Harvard for free just to live the NEET lifestyle
I feel so much in common with Princeton toad it’s not even funny

[Anonymous No.13705321]

>>13705289
Hm, did that go well? I almost went to a much smaller college, Reed College, which I really liked. Seems like those places do offer a more intimate atmosphere but I was swayed by the name brand.

[Anonymous No.13705339]

>>13704644
Checked. Well, we need somebody to actually go down and do CEO work.

[Anonymous No.13705350]

>>13705321
It was okay. Academics were generally good and I was intellectually stimulated. Social life wasn't so great, but that could have been the case regardless where I went.

[Anonymous No.13705353]

/pol/fag here. What's the least uncucked Ivy?

[Anonymous No.13705358]

Fuck... I'm about to start my PhD at a mid-tier Canadian school... Well, better make sure I'm marketable :)

[Anonymous No.13705391]

>>13705353
none of them

[Anonymous No.13705393]

>>13705353
go back.

[Anonymous No.13705400]

>>13699238
>marching lockstep with the perennial march of Human Vanity

That anon came here to mock you all for being pseuds, racking up insurmountable debt, and sniffing your own farts ITT and this is what you say to try and dismiss him.

[Anonymous No.13705405]

>>13705128
chicago here, what's up

what do you study?

[Anonymous No.13705415]

>>13704878
>only good humanities school
After some research I did last year I never understood why it was considered a "good humanities school"(maybe for literature/english courses).

https://philosophy.fsu.edu/courses
https://philosophy.fiu.edu/academics/courses-and-syllabi/index.html
http://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/philosophy/ba/

[Anonymous No.13705420]

>>13704149
I unironically listed 4chan, specifically /sci/ and /lit/, as sites I frequented in my application for columbia and still got in, but I ended up going somewhere better instead.

[Anonymous No.13705427]

>>13705405
Dope. A small confession I should make is that I’m an incoming first year. Did seem cozy when I visited though, can you confirm that?

I’m planning on majoring in philosophy, will take Philosophical Perspectives along with some other required courses.

What do you study and how is it going?

[Anonymous No.13705435]

>>13705255
>Avery
Cringe. Fuck that hipster library. Butler stacks or bust.
>>13705420
Based.

[Anonymous No.13705438]

>>13705427
the only person I know personally who went to Uchicago tried to kill herself at the end of freshman year after they wouldn't let her transfer. they ended up letting her transfer, and she's doing better now.
you picked a shit school, anon.

[Anonymous No.13705447]

>>13705438
Oh well, better dead than not well read.

[Anonymous No.13705451]

>>13705100
Most likely won't be able to get a scholarship(or accepted) for any out of state schools :/.

[Anonymous No.13705459]

>>13705393
I don't think so. I'm most likely smarter than you btw.

[Anonymous No.13705461]

Hey Hahvahd /lit/fags, I’m going to have a rough semester thanks to STEM concentration requirements, and I’m going to need an easy fuckoff class so I don’t spend pull all-nighters every week. What would you recommend?

[Anonymous No.13705464]

>>13705319
is there even a point to life if you can't be a HYP neet?

[Anonymous No.13705465]

>>13705438
>after they wouldn't let her transfer.
wut? How does that work?

[Anonymous No.13705467]

>>13705427
>"can be pretty cozy and patrician imo"
>doesn't even go there yet
my sides

[Anonymous No.13705471]

>>13705464
desu I didn’t really have much until I got in

[Anonymous No.13705478]

>>13705467
i'm in a bombastic mood about my future university, yes. just look at it tho.

[Anonymous No.13705479]

>>13705471
time to get a Harvard-Princeton lit movement going to counter the Columbia and Brown one

[Anonymous No.13705481]

>>13705479
if you need to counter a bowel movement, just wait until they hooked on opioids

[Anonymous No.13705482]

>>13705478
it's nice, like all those Ivy-tier collegiate gothic ones, though the slightly less nice location and the psycho opus dei people and depressed students and generally bad neighborhood make it objectively less comfy than HPY

[Anonymous No.13705486]

>>13705459
definitely not the case.

>>13705478
that pic is sized for ants and yet I can still tell it's ugly.

[Anonymous No.13705488]

>>13705481
opioid-induced constipation is no joke my friend

[Anonymous No.13705494]

>>13705465
don't know, didn't press.

[Anonymous No.13705514]

>>13705482
Yeah, from second hand accounts and what I've seen from a visit Princeton looks the most comfy. Requiring everyone to do a senior thesis is pretty legit too. College town vibe is probably comfier to all aforementioned universities too.

[Anonymous No.13705534]

>>13705514
Thesis is the main reason I went to Princeton and the campus is aesthetically very comfy (at least the upper campus, the lower campus with the new buildings is a bit uglier) the main problem is that the dorms themselves are terrible and the town is mostly filled with boutique shops for the retirees, there's not much to do, but at least its rigorous and looks nice in the fall and spring

[Anonymous No.13705546]

>>13704466
History of Art.
Did it for the sake of not getting into an impacted humanities program like Philosophy and English; everyone knows that it is the same shit at the end of the day. However, I did some independent study with one of the most notable tenured professors in my community college though, not sure if that helped me or not.
I'm also thinking of transferring to a state school since I'm hating the amount of SJWs in the classes that have no respect for merit and writing, and I feel that I won't have much prestige nor networking either way since I'm not a business major.

Just think critically and write pretty well since I really don't know if independent study helps or not, plus not all tenured professors will want to do independent study with a student in a CC; you have to be really liked and interested in their academic field taught in the course in order to have a small chance.
>>13705353
>Ivy
No, but you can get into BYU since it is the most conservative school in the nation, I think.
They are not bad but people hate the location and getting approached by mormons constantly and the rules they have.

[Anonymous No.13705562]

>>13705427
cool i also do philosophy, i would suggest hanging out but i'm probably like ten years older than you

it's cozy depending on your preferences. some people seem to have trouble and get isolated, especially (so i hear anyway) with how competitive certain programs can be. i knew one or two people last year who were incredibly smart and dedicated, but they were completely bugging out and jeopardizing their GPAs and uni careers simply because they were slightly eccentric loners who didn't know how to reach out and get help. so definitely take care of yourself. finding the right group of friends can help. i recommend joining reading groups and going to workshops and such.

[Anonymous No.13705563]

>>13705546
Oh shit I'm stupid, I meant that I'm still not in it but some of the classmates that I fucking hate with the force of a thousand suns in my CC got into the same department as I am. That's why I'm thinking of a humble CSU instead of UCB.

Independent study still applies.

[Anonymous No.13705575]

>>13705546
Mate if you're majoring in history of art - a stupid decision you will regret later in life - then pretty sure I can get into an Ivy.

Regardless I still have better ideas than you will ever have in your life time.

[Anonymous No.13705597]

>>13705546
>>13705562
honest question: how do you people justify not going into a STEM field in the year 2019?

[Anonymous No.13705607]

>>13705597
watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN253RLDdM8

and replace all weightlifting references with "thinking about the forms"

[Anonymous No.13705612]

>>13705597
when your market is oversaturated/automated/etc or the world is burning at least we will be well-read

[Anonymous No.13705614]

The Ivy League lacks talent because they are constantly wrong. I have yet to be impressed by a so-called genius from any Ivy let alone Harvard. Ivy League also bet hard against Trumpism and lost very badly which shows the caliber of genius there. I feel bad for the math majors in the Ivy League who have to put up with the elitist attitude that comes with it.
Let's not kid ourselves here: when Joe Biden says there are 3 genders and Berkeley girls wear vagina hats you just know the people who go to these schools are mentally ill.

[Anonymous No.13705621]

>>13705612
I'm an ecologist. Literally one of the people trying to stop the world from burning, even knowing that I and my colleagues will likely fail.
But cool, at least you'll have been well-read.

[Anonymous No.13705625]

>>13705607
Unless if you have genius IQ you're not going to do anything with philosophy. Don't second guess yourself - get tested by the WSA-IV and if your digits are <130 then get out right away.

[Anonymous No.13705632]

>>13705562
Thanks for the advice. Have you found the philosophy to be pretty good with regard to both analytic and continental stuff? I'm more into analytic at the moment but I'm also pretty dense and have a hard time grasping the continental stuff half the time.

Do you know anything about Platypus? I was taking a look at all the orgs and that appeared to be a Marxist reading group. Something like that can either be based or incredibly dweeby. Will def look for interesting reading groups.

[Anonymous No.13705637]

Is Occidental /lit/? About to go there

[Anonymous No.13705641]

ATTENTION BRIGHT YOUNG ELITES:

>Stop jerking yourself off to how smart you are (it's cringe)
>Read Nick Land and Moldbug
>Become a scientific racist
>America is going straight to hell in your lifetime
>Get a CS degree
>Contribute to Urbit source code
>You can act on the world rather than be acted upon if you stop being retarded
>DO NOT get a humanities degree unless you want to live like a slave
>Nobody cares about your hyper-specific humanities nerdgasm interests
>Reading books on your own is better than some professor shoving their cock down your throat
>Academics are arrogant faggots, failures, and misfits
>Humanities degrees won't get you laid even if your classes are all women
>Read Nick Land
>I tried to warn you but you didn't listen

"We ought not to act and speak as though we were asleep"
-Heraclitus

[Anonymous No.13705645]

>>13705625
you're kidding yourself if you think anyone from the current undergraduate-aged generation or anyone younger is actually going to "do anything" in philosophy to begin with, even the ones with the genius IQs.

[Anonymous No.13705646]

>>13705614
Funny story, in 2016 on November 9th, a class I was in decided to discuss Trump's victory instead of having a normal session. It was like it had just been announced that an asteroid was on a collision course with the Earth and nothing could be done to stop it. All these rich Ivy kids were talking in astonishingly condescending ways about Trump voters, like really cluelessly talking down to "those people," who need to be "led better" by their superiors etc. I mildly, VERY mildly suggested that maybe this kind of condescension was why the working class was deserting what they perceived as ivory tower coastal elites. I explicitly said I was making this critique from a Marxist perspective.

A girl ran out of the room crying and hated me from then on, and I was known as the "Trump guy" and the token conservative from that day forward.

[Anonymous No.13705648]

>>13705621
godspeed then

[Anonymous No.13705649]

>>13705641
Donald Trump brags about his IQ. It's healthy if you have something rare and extraordinary and flex it off once in a while. Not doing that just makes you look weak in front of your peers if you actually do go to an Ivy.

[Anonymous No.13705655]

>>13705641
a good rule to follow is anyone who tells you to read Nick Land has not understood Nick Land

[Anonymous No.13705676]

>>13705655
>para-academic cope

[Anonymous No.13705679]

>>13705641
>>Stop jerking yourself off to how smart you are (it's cringe)
yes.
>>Read Nick Land and Moldbug
no.
>>Become a scientific racist
no.
>>America is going straight to hell in your lifetime
yes.
>>Get a CS degree
9 times out of 10, terrible advice.
>>Contribute to Urbit source code
meaningless.
>>You can act on the world rather than be acted upon if you stop being retarded
fatuous.
>>DO NOT get a humanities degree unless you want to live like a slave
yes.
>>Nobody cares about your hyper-specific humanities nerdgasm interests
usually, yes.
>>Reading books on your own is better than some professor shoving their cock down your throat
depends what books and what professors, some of them have unironically earned the right to indoctrinate you because you probably don't know shit about shit.
>>Academics are arrogant faggots, failures, and misfits
no.
>>Humanities degrees won't get you laid even if your classes are all women
yes.
>>Read Nick Land
...
>>I tried to warn you but you didn't listen
...
mixed bag but generally not advice worth listening to beyond what's already common sense.

>>13705649
>if you have something rare and extraordinary
you don't, though.

[Anonymous No.13705683]

>>13705646
Good on you for doing that. These people do not deserve a single ounce of sympathy if they are incapable of handling opinions. They must be treated with the same respect they have treated others.

[Anonymous No.13705689]

>>13705632
it's funny, i was actually going to suggest platypus and then didn't for some reason. they're pretty cool, i know a few of them but mostly stayed on the outside of it. you can join their year-long reading circle thing and they'll definitely welcome you. lots of people in there who actually take their shit seriously, which is a refreshing break from the vast majority of college pseudo-leftists. that would be a good way to make some social contacts for sure.

when it comes to analytic/continental dominance i'm not really sure. there are definitely some hardcore analytics, but i actually dislike the "soft" analytics more, the ones who make a big deal out of having infused their analytic perspectives with "therapeutic" linguistic philosophies or pragmatism. if you want truly extra-analytic outlooks, you might have to go to the divinity school, social thought, or even the history/philosophy of science people. classics also has some surprisingly meaty courses on ancient thought sometimes too.

in general, there's a LOT of upward mobility at this school if you have the initiative to reach for it. that might mean schmoozing your way into the good graces of some famous mentor who can train you to be his precocious little dauphin, but more positively, it can mean really devoting yourself to learning your shit and not being afraid to seek out classes, people, workshops and so on that will broaden your horizons. really good self-motivated students stand out big time, especially by third and fourth year when they've mastered a lot of material and you can tell they're hungry to undertake real projects. when i look at the support, mentorship, and opportunities that some of the students here get because they genuinely distinguished themselves by caring a lot and working hard, i honestly get jealous. my undergrad experience was way more anonymous as a result.

[Anonymous No.13705690]

>>13705679
>jerking off to how smart he is

[Anonymous No.13705694]

>>13705689
>... as a result

shit, that should be "by comparison." not even sure why i said "as a result."

[Anonymous No.13705722]

>>13705679
>when you try to flex your 120 IQ so hard you try to justify being at a T50

[Anonymous No.13705724]

>>13705689
>>13705632
>Platypus
Platypus are literally complete autistic tankies. The reading group is torturously boring, and if you can survive more than one meeting you will probably end up indoctrinated and mentally ill for life. Don't give in to social pressure to be a pinko just because everyone around you is too. At least read DamnJehu's blog if you want a leftist who isn't braindead, but honestly you should just skip that phase entirely and go straight to Nick Land and accelerationism, the only way of making any sort of sense of modernity. Marx is dead, communism in action is always slavery to the state. The people around you are religious fanatics who don't have your best interests at heart. Consider this random chance even of my replying to you a gift of fate.

>t. you in 5 years

[Anonymous No.13705727]

>>13705575
>Mate if you're majoring in history of art - a stupid decision you will regret later in life - then pretty sure I can get into an Ivy.
A Bachelor of Arts is still a Bachelor's; History of Art is not my field of interest and I'm only getting into it for the sake of getting a degree given I can always get into a business, law or graduate school in any university.
But sure, try to apply to Princeton for transfer and see what happens ;)
>Regardless I still have better ideas than you will ever have in your life time.
Like what exactly? The name of the school someone went to does not correlate with his creativity nor intelligence.
You surely have some guts though.
>>13705597
Complete waste of time and your kind will get outsourced to an Indian for 1 dollar per hour in less than 10 years from now.
And could you please remind me again who are the ones giving you funding for research, anon? Because I'm pretty sure other STEMies do not want lower wages or donate to their own institutions for the sake of making the world a better place, do they?

[Anonymous No.13705732]

>>13705722
SUNNY :D

[Anonymous No.13705735]

>>13705722
>>13705732
checked btw

[Anonymous No.13705755]

In case anybody missed it...

ATTENTION BRIGHT YOUNG ELITES:

>Stop jerking yourself off to how smart you are (it's cringe)
>Read Nick Land and Moldbug
>Become a scientific racist
>America is going straight to hell in your lifetime
>Get a CS degree
>Contribute to Urbit source code
>You can act on the world rather than be acted upon if you stop being retarded
>DO NOT get a humanities degree unless you want to live like a slave
>Nobody cares about your hyper-specific humanities nerdgasm interests
>Reading books on your own is better than some professor shoving their cock down your throat
>Academics are arrogant faggots, failures, and misfits
>Humanities degrees won't get you laid even if your classes are all women
>Read Nick Land
>I tried to warn you but you didn't listen

"We ought not to act and speak as though we were asleep"
-Heraclitus

[Anonymous No.13705759]

>>13705625
I have an IQ of 152 and go to an Ivy and have literally no clue what to do with my life. i keep reading restlessly and I only grow madder. Help me anon.

[Anonymous No.13705762]

>>13705727
>Just pay more money on art history at an expensive school to get into school lmao
>you will never have a real job until your 30s

Even Donald Trump said an Ivy League degree for business is worthless and he's worth several billion. Sooner or later you'll have to admit Trump is right.

Art history is bad because it's not a real career. At least history majors have a chance to go into government jobs but art majors do not have the opportunity nor the skill set to get a well-paying job. Your work will not be as grandiose as you think it will be and you will live as a receptionist at a random state art gallery for the duration of your career.

But next you'll try to tell me your parents are rich and you are next in line for the throne.

[Anonymous No.13705766]

>>13705759
>>13705755

http://www.labster8.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NickLand-Circuitries.pdf

Hand-delivered for your convenience young master :)

tl;dr learn to code

[Anonymous No.13705767]

>>13705722
embarrassingly off the mark.

>>13705727
>your kind will get outsourced to an Indian for 1 dollar per hour in less than 10 years from now.
>t. doesn't know shit about real-world job prospects in top STEM fields

[Anonymous No.13705770]

>>13705641
>Urbit
What is this? Another blockchain meme coin? Redpill me on it anon

[Anonymous No.13705771]

>>13705767
You're right. 120 is being too generous.

[Anonymous No.13705773]

Please I need an easy class if I’m going to survive this next semester

[Anonymous No.13705786]

>>13705771
someone's insecure.

>>13705773
are you >>13705461 ?
if so, why not only take your major requirements this semester if you're THAT worried about the workload. Do you need to pad this semester with another class for credits or something?

[Anonymous No.13705788]

>>13705766
>http://www.labster8.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/NickLand-Circuitries.pdf
What the fuck is this babble? What is someone suppose to take away from this ghastly rigamarole?

[Anonymous No.13705790]

>>13705770
https://urbit.org/primer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07LE6SAhUdo

It's an internet architecture project, has very little to do with cuckchain. It kills and obsolesces centralized players like Google etc.

[Anonymous No.13705792]

>>13705759
Drop out. If you value your sanity drop out.
>>13705786
Struck a nerve have we?

[Anonymous No.13705795]

>>13705792
you're quite bad at shitposting. maybe try scrounging up an actual argument for a change.

[Anonymous No.13705796]

>>13705689
damn, lots of useful advice here again, thanks. I'm really looking forward to meeting all these professors and so on.

Eventual goal is grad school but I'll def try to pick up a few skills along the way when/if that path fails -- maybe pick up programming or learn whatever I need to get into a decent law school. Is your career goal with philosophy grad school --> academia or something else entirely?

>>13705724
lmao thanks for another opinion. Marxist analysis is interesting but I definitely don't like tankies. I'm still gonna check them out tho, see what's up. Will look at the blog you mentioned. Nick Land is also quite interesting though he seems to be a bit of a boomer these days. I'd join a Land reading group too...

[Anonymous No.13705797]

>>13705788
Patience anon, I know you haven't finished yet. Approach it as you would approach some avantgarde fiction.

[Anonymous No.13705806]

>>13705762
Art History is good for developing your writing skills, just like any other humanities degree.
Not getting money from my parents for graduate school but there is a thing called persuasion that gets you pretty far in life.

FYI you can also get a faculty job without a graduate degree at any other university if you're good enough and made a thesis.
>>13705767
>>t. doesn't know shit about real-world job prospects in top STEM fields
>job prospects
Golly gee, anon!
Totes the good and honest statisticians are telling the truth and there is going to be lots and lots of jobs for STEM, and they were not paid thousands of dollars to tell lies for the retards who think they will get a job straight out of college with 300k in debt for going to CalTech!

[Anonymous No.13705817]

*tink tink tink*

GOOD EVENING BRIGHT YOUNG ELITES, I have an important announcement to make:

>Stop jerking yourself off to how smart you are (it's cringe)
>Read Nick Land and Moldbug
>Become a scientific racist
>America is going straight to hell in your lifetime
>Get a CS degree
>Contribute to Urbit source code
>You can act on the world rather than be acted upon if you stop being retarded
>DO NOT get a humanities degree unless you want to live like a slave
>Nobody cares about your hyper-specific humanities nerdgasm interests
>Reading books on your own is better than some professor shoving their cock down your throat
>Academics are arrogant faggots, failures, and misfits
>Humanities degrees won't get you laid even if your classes are all women
>Read Nick Land
>I tried to warn you but you didn't listen

"We ought not to act and speak as though we were asleep"
-Heraclitus

[Anonymous No.13705821]

>>13705817
Who are you anon? Are you just some basement dwelling schizoposter? What are anons suppose to do with your advice? What path are they electing to take following your advice?

[Anonymous No.13705824]

>>13705724
what's with all the accelshit posting all over this board now? I haven't lurked in a couple of years but suddenly these lunatics are everywhere?

>>13705806
>they were not paid thousands of dollars to tell lies for
if you're the type to unironically believe this then you're simply not worth debating with.

[Anonymous No.13705833]

>>13705821
I'm a cartoon frog .jpg

Read Land and figure things out for yourself

[Anonymous No.13705836]

>>13705795

>>13705806
>Art History is good for developing your writing skills, just like any other humanities degree.
Not getting money from my parents for graduate school but there is a thing called persuasion that gets you pretty far in life.
Persuasion, you mean begging on the streets? XD

[Anonymous No.13705843]

>>13705824
Read Land mortal

[Anonymous No.13705868]

>>13698607
hey guys, i was wondering if any of you guys at these elite schools had any advice for undergrad admissions?

just wondering what people that actually go to these schools think and if they think theyre useful

thanks guys :)

[Anonymous No.13705917]

>>13705824
>if you're the type to unironically believe this then you're simply not worth debating with.
Alrighty, see you at the homeless shelter soon~
>>13705836
>you mean begging on the streets? XD
LMAO xD

[Anonymous No.13706715]

>>13705679
>>>Become a scientific racist
>no.
lmao fag alert

[Anonymous No.13706728]

>>13705917
why would the hypergeometric function in that integral have pi before an otherwise correct argument, why would you evaluate the Hurwitz zeta at 10 and why does it try to sum over pi

[Anonymous No.13706897]

>>13705786
If I only take 3 classes now then I’ll have to take 5 classes later. Which is just kicking the can down the road. I thought some of you guys actually go to Harvard which is why I asked.

[Anonymous No.13707156]

>>13705868
The best piece of advice I can give is list your expected major as something niche i.e. a department the school spends money on but not many students major in. They are always looking to fill that department. So if you have taken latin even if you want to do something else in the humanities say classics, etc. Other than that write good essays, get good test scores, have meaningful and developed interests that are impressive (hopefully) but also are something you care about, being the captain of a million clubs which are all obviously just to boost your admission chances is see-through.

[Anonymous No.13707212]

>>13707156
IMO the rules of dating apply here
>be attractive
>don’t be unattractive

Curate a well-rounded admissions profile that reveals you to be more than a cloistered, reserved turbo nerd. IMO, I think the essays and the letters of recommendation are going to be where you reveal your personality and character and are therefore the most important. Everything else just gets you through the door. That’s probably where most applicants fuck up—they are either too boring/insecure and they write another Boy Scouts moral compass essay, or they’re too unhinged and write about running away from home and smoking crack in a rape dungeon. You need to find a captivating yet illuminating middle ground to make you stand out as more than just a collection of test scores and extracurricular activities. My philosophy teacher wrote a stellar, if not somewhat eccentric, recommendation letter, and I wrote a two personal essays about what makes me tick (that I would never share with anybody but my closest friends and family... it was a Hail Mary move), and that got me into HYP with a 35 ACT, 15+ APs & IBs (avg score 4.8 & 37/45 diploma respectively), lackluster sports, and average extracurriculars.

Finally, if you’re just starting high school (inb4 underaged b&), then my recommendation is to learn stellar studying skills, practice extreme self-discipline, and don’t be afraid to take risks and venture out on your own. High school is one of the last opportunities to explore life without having too much responsibilities or repercussions. Learn to eat well, exercise well, and sleep well. Spend free time on weekends either socializing and playing games, or reading the Western classics, studying advanced mathematics, and writing short stories... whatever floats your boat. But don’t be afraid to ask out that cute girl who you’ll never see again after you finish your mid-terms and have no immediate stresses to worry about.

The most important lesson you can learn is becoming aware of your own agency and doing everything you can to increase your locus of control so that you can accomplish great things when the moment is right. If you keep that in mind, then when it comes to application time, you will fucking crush it. And if you get bad luck, then you will crush your state flagship undergrad and your world will be your oyster.

[Anonymous No.13707376]

>>13707212
>>13705868
basically, everything here is perfect advice but I cannot reiterate enough how helpful it can be to list an unpopular major. Imagine the guarantee slots as a piechart that they will fill up before they move to riskier candidates. X amount will be legacy, X diversity, etc. A certain amount, and I know this on good authority, are reserved for students who want to pursue a major the college deems as important, whether it be unpopular or a department whose future prestige the college wants to boost. These colleges essentially have a huge pool of students who qualify to go there, so at a certain point it is just luck/random chance because their admission rates are kept lower than the number of eligible, high-achieving students who could attend. A good way to separate yourself from this group and try to move into the guaranteed group is expressing interest in your application for one of these more valued or less popular majors. No college wants to have a graduation year where nobody is majoring in a certain department, so that is part of their selection process.

[Anonymous No.13707806]

>>13702538
Only your med school is good.

[Anonymous No.13708134]

>>13707212
>>13707376
>>13707156
thanks for the advice bros, really appreciate it

i guess id say im interested in like programming/cs but i also really like literature/classics and music so i guess those interests are as popular as they can get. would you guys reccomend anything specific for me? thanks again!

[Anonymous No.13708210]

>>13703816
sitting in debart RN

[Anonymous No.13708355]

>>13702431
American meritocracy is a myth

[Anonymous No.13708733]

Why do people keep posting in these threads as if everyone is already living around the Yard? Are you all und*rgrad fr*shmen at pre-orientation or something? Classes don't start for like two weeks, and when that other uni thread was up it was the better part of a month before.

[Anonymous No.13708854]

>>13708733
I’m coming back on campus this weekend. Also, any chill class suggestions for a heavy workload?

[Anonymous No.13708907]

I work at a pub near Hahvahd. I don't go to school but I still btfo pretentious rich bois on the weekends. I even btfo the math professor at Hahvahd.

[Anonymous No.13709165]

*waves nervously*

[Anonymous No.13709216]

>>13705646
>I mildly, VERY mildly
>I explicitly said I was making this critique from a Marxist perspective.
Why don't you stop being a coward.

[Anonymous No.13709229]

>>13705646
That critique isn't Marxist lol
If I was your professor I would have kicked you out for such blatant pussyfooting

[Anonymous No.13709237]

>>13709216
>>13709229
Nice samefagging

[Anonymous No.13709618]

One more time for those who missed it—

ATTENTION BRIGHT YOUNG ELITES:

>Stop jerking yourself off to how smart you are (it's cringe)
>Read Nick Land and Moldbug
>Become a scientific racist
>America is going straight to hell in your lifetime
>Get a CS degree
>Contribute to Urbit source code
>You can act on the world rather than be acted upon if you stop being retarded
>DO NOT get a humanities degree unless you want to live like a slave
>Nobody cares about your hyper-specific humanities nerdgasm interests
>Reading books on your own is better than some professor shoving their cock down your throat
>Academics are arrogant faggots, failures, and misfits
>Humanities degrees won't get you laid even if your classes are all women
>Read Nick Land
>I tried to warn you but you didn't listen

"We ought not to act and speak as though we were asleep"
-Heraclitus

[Anonymous No.13709654]

>>13709618
Only a little bit based.

[Anonymous No.13709774]

>>13703708
>>13705534
Where my Pbros at

[Anonymous No.13709818]

>>13705427
ANOTHER first year prospie philosophy major doing Phil Per during autumn quarter, what’s up brother

[Anonymous No.13709856]

>>13709818
ayy. it's surreal talking to someone in the exact position as me on an anime image board. We could've have talked IRL for all I know if you've been to any of the events. I barely remember meeting any other philosophy majors though.

I'm doing well, though it's been an overly long summer. Pretty hot at the moment too.

Any specific philosophy interests or other stuff you're looking forward to in college?

[Anonymous No.13709954]

>>13709856
Yeah definitely weird talking to a peer on a Mongolian basket weaving forum. I actually had to ditch all the major meetup events because of some pretty serious medical issues—and me telling you that might end up basically doxing me but I’ll probably end up seeing you in classes if you stick with the major anyways so it doesn’t matter lmao.

My summer has been dealing with said medical issues.

I’ve been sort of shopping around the field for specific topics to get interested in. I think what originally pulled me in were value-theory fields and things like that, also literary movements like romanticism etc. Pretty interested in aesthetics but god knows I haven’t read shit this summer so I’m not going in with some sort of specialized, prodigious background like some of those other kids. Hbu?

[Anonymous No.13709960]

>>13709618
urbit is turbo-autism, Nick Land is turbo-autism, Moldbug is autism. Read Jim from Jim's Blog or just be a chad and ignore bolodigs ged money and bower.

[Anonymous No.13710020]

>>13700282
roll for orders

[Anonymous No.13710025]

>>13710020
3k, ouch

[Anonymous No.13710083]

>>13709954
Damn that sucks, I hope you're doing better now. Value-theory is interesting, I got kind of hung up on meta-ethics for a while trying to justify the existence of knowledge about ethics. Drew me a bit into epistemology. I have the interest, but didn't have the focus/time to build up a truly prodigious background throughout much of high school, tho I've doe a fair bit of scattered reading. I'll semi-dox myself in return by telling you that I have a single in BJ.

I've also been reading a lot of literary modernism now funnily enough, specifically some of Ezra Pound's poetry. Don't know anything about aesthetics though, any book recommendations to learn about it?

[Anonymous No.13710268]

>>13709774
right here pimp hit my line and we can link and build [e-mail]

[Anonymous No.13710362]

>>13705790
>that faggot wearing the cardigan

How do you even engage with these people?

[Anonymous No.13710370]

>>13710083
Bro I literally also have a single in BJ, have you contacted anyone from your house yet??? Should we be doing that?

Also I’ve been hung up on that EXACT same problem in meta-ethics, although all the reading I’ve done in ethics is ancient phil and I haven’t seriously looked into meta-ethics or analytic ethics.

All of my interest in aesthetics comes from reading lit with a few supplemental ancient philosophy readings, so I can’t recommend any good modern texts on it or anything...but I did buy an anthology from the UChicago Press called “Philosophies of Art and Beauty” which looks legit. It has selections from a lot of the big hitters and goes all the way up to Heidegger. Was gonna read it over the summer but, again, medical issues.

I sort of apply those epistemological or formal-axiological questions to all the value-theory fields whenever I think I wanna get somewhere with them and always end up losing my shit.

[Anonymous No.13710386]

>>13710370
>>13710083
Also Joyce kinda deals with aesthetics in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man if you don’t wanna jump into some heavy anthology.

[Anonymous No.13710397]

>>13704554
>Ivy MBA's required work experience
>Work experience comes from top tier banks
>top tier banks recruit at Ivies
>CCfag thinking he is gonna make it

not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.13710410]

>>13703816
>>13704301
>>13708210
wtf I thought I was the only one

[Anonymous No.13710450]

Best library to study at at Harvard?

[Anonymous No.13710463]

>>13710370
We don't neeed to contact anyone at all, but I guess it might help if you wanna have some friends or acquaintance right when you move in. There's a group chat on FB for the dorm, part of the main facebook page. If you're on the FB page then you've probably been added to it. it's pretty lowkey, it's just nice to know a few people's names and interests before going.

Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out at some point. The only piece I remember reading about aesthetics was "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" which is probably more applied than the more theoretical stuff but is still a super interesting look at the implications of new technology like cinema on our experience of art.

Here's my burner email if you wanna talk a little more personally: [e-mail]

I won't be offended if you don't but it'd be great to talk to someone with similar interests that I'll be nearby.

[Anonymous No.13710639]

>>13710450
The underground tunnel one. All the cool kids go there.

[Anonymous No.13710676]

>>13710268
major/year?

[Anonymous No.13710693]

>>13710676
Rising Junior/Language major, what about you?

[Anonymous No.13710702]

>>13710693
I actually graduated a couple years ago. I was a stemfag (AB)

[Anonymous No.13710735]

>>13710639
Gotta get dat Pusey

please I need an easy class

[Anonymous No.13710904]

>>13702547
this

[Anonymous No.13710948]

I went to Harvard for one year. It was a terrible environment so I switched to here at BYU. Every aspect of academic and personal life is better. Not to mention how terrible Cambridgefags are. Nothing but Jews and pseuds.

[Anonymous No.13711376]

>>13706897
I recently graduated from an HYP school and 5-class semesters were my norm, and no I was not liberal arts, I was STEM. get good.

[Anonymous No.13711403]

>>13710450
>>13710639
your entire campus is fugly mates

[Anonymous No.13711739]

>>13700207
checking in

>>13705255
see you there in a few weeks :(

[Anonymous No.13711970]

>tfw went to top 5 uni only to fail to forge relationships with faculty, participate for long in any sort of organization, or make more than two friends
>tfw given curated syllabi and an unparalleled library only to fail to do readings
>tfw wanted to go to office hours yet felt unprepared to do so
>tfw too anxious to leave campus to explore world-class city
>tfw long distance relationship meant not courting articulate women
>tfw went in undermedicated and overwhelmed, came out overmedicated and underwhelmed
>tfw any mention of elite institutions triggers crippling anxiety, insecurity, self-loathing, and ennui

[Anonymous No.13711974]

>>13710639
Good choice, only studied there once

ngl i like people gazing at hist and lit people in barker cafe sometimes, too bad there are no outlets there

>>13705461
Do you need any gen eds to fulfill? Just take something p/f desu
>>13711403
Not gonna disagree, I think our brick buildings are unique but I like collegiate gothic more

[Anonymous No.13712656]

>>13711970
Columbia?

[Anonymous No.13712675]

>>13711970
What do you do now anon

[Anonymous No.13712691]

Anyone else here Oxon? We can start our own literary movement with bad teeth and crippling classism.

[Anonymous No.13712867]

>>13711974
>Do you need any gen eds to fulfill? Just take something p/f desu
I did a lot of concentration-switching my first two years, so I don't have any gen eds to fill besides ethics. I think I'll just take the CS discrete math course since it fulfills a concentration requirement, seems to be alright, and doesn't have too much out-of-class work. Thanks for giving me some food for thought.

[Anonymous No.13713374]

>>13712656
chicago
>>13712675
software engineer
i did cs with some mathematics and phil and then english lit with creative work at uni

[Anonymous No.13713512]

>>13711403
this

[Anonymous No.13713777]

>>13713374
Damn I’m on way to Chicago and honestly I could see all this easily happening to me. Sounds like you turned out fine but no doubt the waste of time/money is regrettable.

[Anonymous No.13714233]

>>13711970
Hello myself.

[Anonymous No.13714286]

>>13711970
College is wasted on the young.

[Anonymous No.13714354]

>>13714286
The young are wasted on college.

[Anonymous No.13714364]

>>13711970
>tfw any mention of elite institutions triggers crippling anxiety, insecurity, self-loathing, and ennui
i know that feel

[Anonymous No.13714446]

>>13711739
>>13705255
>>13700207
/columbia/

any reqs in philosophy or political theory?

[Anonymous No.13714628]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhHH1AJtZ3Y

[Anonymous No.13714721]

>>13698607
lamont fag here.

i like shoving dragon dildos up my ass like all lamont alumni,

[Anonymous No.13714831]

>>13713777
the fact of the matter is that most of this was my own fault. a combination of mood and attention issues, medicating and unmedicating, plus actual relationship woes (financial and family stress) and coming into college from a traumatic highschool experience, i was well-primed to behave in the way i did, insofar as isolating and being averse to a lot of things
things were pretty good by senior year though — i got over myself and got a handle on most of my mental issues and learned more or less to live with myself. i enjoyed my classes, engaged well, and overall just tried to stomach my regrets. i like to mire in the misery i experienced in college, but i console myself with the fact that a) both of my two friends have drastically influenced me intellectually in completely opposite directions, and they are and will continue to be an intellectual resource i can consult for the next forseeable decade [i had plenty of acquaintances and “friends”, but the only lasting bonds i had were more or less these, beyond drinking pals] b) i learned that i really dont know much and that most people also dont and c) once you read the fucking primary sources its simply your interpretation vs everyone else’s (a highly liberating mindstance, i think)
[i also impressed a creative writing teacher/author who will be a helpful recommender should i eventually try to publish again, and made some literary friends i can workshop with in the future]
note that this i think is at least a part of the chicago essence and you will certainly get at least that much out of it.

cont

[Anonymous No.13714892]

>>13713777
>>13714831
(cont)
the correction steps i would have taken:
1) forced myself into a large typical college dorm rather than one of the isolating off campus ones (though nearly all of these have closed, so you shouldnt have this problem, even in BJ). i didnt realize how easily one can become entirety socially cut off, and how crippling and painful isolation can be. im more or less a normal anglo sadboi, have a cute gf and a good job now, etc, but my freshman year i was achingly alone, which was particularly hard to deal with as a college freshman. being in a crowded dorm where you have to walk past everyone hanging out in the lounge to get to your room makes socializing much easier if you struggle with it (including your hubris preventing you from doing things you think you dont want to)
2) if you have any issues studying/learning like i did (for example, being so zonked on prescribed stimulants that id just crank out 8 hours in the library even though i should have stopped after one and gotten help), be hyperconscious of what you struggle with, and adapt your studying around it. fucking go to problem sessions, ask friends for help, anything. there is no glory in struggling with a proof or a program past the second hour if you still don’t i now what it is you dont understand. i had a purist mindset of doing things on my own, plus a crippling stimulant anxiety, that kept me locked up in the library when i should have been at the problem session.
(fwiw i graduated with a 3.25 gpa, so i wasnt a total failure or anything, but i definitely struggled with some of the harder stem courses.)

don’t pressure yourself to be the asshole that just sits in every office hour for-the-sake-of, but also dont blow off office hours with those professors you do want to engage with, when youre just working on some inconsequential problem set. a few more points on your problem set means nothing compared to the connections, or at least questions and answers, youll get from office hours. fwiw i think if you dont know exactly what you want (this most people), its a lot easier to go talk with your humanities professor for an hour instead of your math one. so dont feel bad if you can’t think of compelling questions to ask your maths prof.

addendum: try not to be autistically committed to not doing X Y or Z in college if you dont have a good reason for it. people drink, and a lot of them drink like idiots, and you dont have to do that, but dont turn down a party opportunity on principle if you havent already experienced that sort of thing. go to bar night once. stay in with the nerds playing board games once. figure yourself out, and dont be the coward that already assumes you know who you are and what you want unless youre fucking sure about it. otherwise, youll end up regretting how you limited your opportunities to grow

[Anonymous No.13714983]

>>13705260
This place is a giant propaganda apparatus, shoot me please.

[Anonymous No.13715457]

>>13712867
Is it CS20? I took that a while back. You're right about the structure of the class, there's no sections and just 3 hours of class time a week. And if you do p-sets at OH it's a lot easier; I did hw alone for bulk of the semester and I should've just started by p-setting with others, though you probably figured that out by now.

Just to be sure though this is for spring sem right?

[Anonymous No.13715481]

>>13714831
>>13714892
at a diff but similarly tiered school but very similar bg w/r/t academics/social life/habits. how do you find life after uni? more preferable as a result of the lessons you learned from uni or is it just different?

[Anonymous No.13715564]

>>13711970
fuck, all I can say to this in any hope of being helpful, is that you're definitely not the only one.

[Anonymous No.13715574]

>>13710410
christ campus was so busy today compared to the summer

[Anonymous No.13715587]

>>13714983
how so friend

[Anonymous No.13715618]

>>13714892
>more or less a normal anglo sadboi
>have a cute gf and a good job now
>graduated with a 3.25 gpa
>in fucking CS at that
anon, you literally have nothing to complain about. people would kill for half as much privilege in life.

[Anonymous No.13715668]

>>13715618
I didn't think they were complaining about their current life, just that they misused their college years. But stressed out 18 year-old nerds gunna nerd.

[Anonymous No.13715824]

>>13715668
complaining about his past regrets when his present is more than fine is nothing more than a self-induglent waste of time, but I guess it's unreasonable to expect anything else of a self-professed white sadboy.

[Anonymous No.13715879]

>>13715457
I thought it was for fall. Maybe I should double check.

[Anonymous No.13715888]

I hope none of succeed at that. No cultural movement in the past 50 years which had its beginnings at an elite university has been any has produced anything of lasting worth.

[Anonymous No.13715913]

>>13710948
Lemme know your name so can tell the honor code office you're on a pp touching website you big apostate

[Anonymous No.13715921]

>>13715913
*so I can tell*

[Anonymous No.13716420]

>>13715888
and having been to an elite university and seen what the people there are like, I can say with almost complete certainty that it won't.

[Anonymous No.13716914]

>>13714831
>>13714892
Appreciate a lot. Will keep all this advice in mind. In my mind I'm autistically committed to a few subjects and going onto grad school with them but realistically I think I'll change my plans when I see how hard things are and what I'm really interested in.

[Anonymous No.13716917]

>he fell for the prestigious undergrad meme
lol
who else moved up like 500 places in school rank after grad school

[Anonymous No.13716925]

>>13715574
Freshman are fucking with SDH so hard it’s literally impossible to sit down. Had to eat lunch out of a vending machine today since LaFun was also a no mans land.

[Anonymous No.13716943]

who /mediocrestateuni/ here

>tfw cruised by with a 3.9 with zero hours of studying since everything is dumbed down
>got multiple internships since I was so bored, which offset the horrible alumni network
>also nearly did 4 years of research since I was also bored
>graduated and instantly found a good job and am going back for my MSc and contacted adcoms at top schools who tell me that I have extremely good chances

feels fucking good bros. not a single night with less than 7 hours of sleep.

[Anonymous No.13717011]

>>13703816
>>13704301
>>13708210
>>13710410
>>13715574
>>13716925
are you all christfags? why would anyone on earth go to notre dame? HYP were for what it's worth.

[Anonymous No.13717104]

>>13712691
>bad teeth and crippling classism
You clearly haven't been to Oxford

[Anonymous No.13717132]

>>13717011
Hello I am Neo-Calvinist at Harverd

[Anonymous No.13717134]

>>13716917
>moved from top 1000 to top 500

[Anonymous No.13717138]

>>13717134
top 10 community college faggot

[Anonymous No.13717142]

>>13717104
>some oxford faggot makes a mild joke showing self-awareness about oxford faggots' reputation for snobbery
>another oxford faggot misses the joking tone, ironically precisely because he's so wrapped up in his own pathetic snobbery that it's lost on him
>interprets the post SOLELY as an opportunity to show off that he attends/attended oxford (in a completely anonymous setting, where it can't give him any prestige whatsoever, demonstrating that his snobbery exists at the knee-jerk level of animal instinct and isn't even deployed strategically for social advantage, and also explaining why it took immediate precedence over getting a basic joke)

t. not british so your "heh u didn't go to oxford" equally clueless, equally irony-missing rejoinder means nothing to me

[Anonymous No.13717143]

>>13717138
That's like living in a top 10 third world country

[Anonymous No.13717151]

>>13717138
This is a meme but Pomona and Diablo Valley College unironically shit on most state schools desu.

[Anonymous No.13717168]

cont. >>13717164

[Anonymous No.13717208]

>>13717151
I demand some sort of justification for your claim.

[Anonymous No.13717226]

>>13705621
>he thinks this train has brakes
Cute

[Anonymous No.13717244]

>>13717226
>he thinks this train has brakes
>"even knowing that I and my colleagues will likely fail."
can you read

[Anonymous No.13717264]

>>13717208
i took the real analysis sequence, topology, and abstract algebra before I transferred to a UC

their math program has an excellent course selection for a CC.
http://catalog.pomona.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=28&ent_oid=1596

[Anonymous No.13717699]

Where my cardinals at?

[Anonymous No.13717944]

>>13717142
As the original Oxford poster I can also confirm that unless the Anon who replied to me is some slack-jawed STEM moron who only leaves his room once a week he'll have seen that Oxford is deeply elitist, and the bad teeth thing is a very common English stereotype.

Just wanted fellow elitist Brit-fags to intellectually masturbate with

t. the Anon who responded to me is a fag who probably doesn't go to Oxford.

[Anonymous No.13717957]

> He doesn't attend a university with actual history and tradition.

I pity you

[Anonymous No.13718401]

>>13717944
If that is the only culture your rainy little socialist island has you deserve to be replaced with pajeets. English used to have a culture of steak and crumpets with clotted cream. Cromwell's reign of terror ended but Calvinism destroyed you just the same.

[Anonymous No.13718691]

>>13718401
Whoah, hold your horses buddy! I'm not sure what you're taking issue with in my post, though I guess you're maybe also a STEMtard and I've hurt your feels. Also tfw he doesn't like based Cromwell. I thought you loved me Anon, but I don't know how we can go on like this.

[Anonymous No.13719078]

>>13718691
Oxford is trash, universities are trash, Cromwell was virtue signaling trash. How about you trash either lead, follow, or die? Choose one and quickly, sodomite enabling closet case.

[Anonymous No.13719108]

>>13717011
I was raised Catholic and it’s a nice ass school to go to.