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What does /lit/ study? Anonymous Wed May 6 03:33:27 2020 No.15288310 [Reply] [Original]

>Degree (or career)?

>Currently reading?

>How are you holding up?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 03:36:09 2020 No.15288322 >computer science >no time to read, just suffering >terrible, thinking of major switching to something less employable to avoid the bugman’s fate

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 03:36:29 2020 No.15288326 >>15288310 >Degree (or career)? Economics, finance and global politics >Currently reading? Dynasty by Tom Holland >How are you holding up? Just got a nice e-reader to boost my reading comfort plus finished some tests

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 03:46:09 2020 No.15288361 File: 18 KB, 300x300, 132ae6c9-6bde-43e4-b780-bb0d2ccd7031._CR0,0,1500,1500_PT0_SX300__.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15288310 I'm a financial analyst. I'm reading Don Quixote. My life fucking sucks but atleast I'll probably be wealthy.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 03:48:08 2020 No.15288370 German lit and language, currently reading through all of kafka

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 03:52:03 2020 No.15288383 File: 90 KB, 750x745, A8255587-4A8E-402D-8DB5-A272C01BC83B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Grad student, classical philology >Zarathustra >My life is unending torment.

Anonymous Wed May 6 03:56:36 2020 No.15288410

>>15288310
>Finance/Data Analytics major
>Currently working in finance
>The Bible, for the first time actually
>Pretty bad. Working 50 hours a week, while doing full time school and having a newborn is like asking for a mental illness. But once school is over everything will be 100 times easier.

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:10:21 2020 No.15288479

>Degree
Bachelor's in philosophy. Think I'll go back for the PhD soon. Feels good to dedicate myself completely to studies, I miss it.
>Currently reading
Phenomenology of Spirit, The Remains of the Day, Girl With Curious Hair, and The Conquest of Bread. Pretty mixed bag.
>Holding up
Doing much better in quarantine than I was before all this. Getting tons of reading done, watching lots of movies, and I'm not merely freed from social interaction, I'm actively encouraged to avoid it. Dream come true. Just trying to enjoy this opportunity for intense productivity while I've got it. I know this is all temporary and the depression will come rushing back once it's over.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:10:32 2020 No.15288480 >Degree (or career)? Theoretical physics >Currently reading? The Bible and Pharsalia by Lucan (poetry) >How are you holding up? Pretty well actually. I've got no job for this summer so it's going to be just me and the books

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:11:27 2020 No.15288487 I'm was an EOD, now maritime security operator. Franz Kafka: the Castle. It's not bad, you should take more time outside, live dangerously and don't be afraid of conflicts. Live the life of a true men just like Nietzsche tried to teach us.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:13:02 2020 No.15288493 sociology easy chain by dara very bad. feels like all of my friends have found their way and have a career and I’m 5 years out of school and still working retail, haven’t figured out what I want to do with my life

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:18:56 2020 No.15288521

>>15288310
>About to graduate with a business law degree, currently have a useless job working for the government.
I'm going to study finance next year and I also signed up for an undergraduate in philosophy (online school). My friend says I'm too scatterbrained and should focus on my career but I like studying. Any thoughts from finance or philosophy students?

>Reading the songs of Maldoror
>Feeling lost

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:20:42 2020 No.15288528 >Degree (or career)? Maths undergrad. >Currently reading? Melmoth the wanderer by Maturin Borges short stories Homotopical Topology >How are you holding up? Breddy good :DDDDD

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:24:59 2020 No.15288552

>>15288310
>Degree (or carrer)?
I have a degree in English with a focus in literature, and I am currently taking several undergraduate science classes to apply to a physical therapy doctorate program.
>Currently reading?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>How are you holding up?
Badly.

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:28:26 2020 No.15288561
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>>15288310
Does /lit/ have any advice for a 20 year old NEET? I originally went to university to study CS but I failed out because I didn't do a single assignment. I absolutely loathed all my classes and felt like throwing up every time I tried to start coding or doing any STEM subject. I got into a prestigious university because I was actually motivated but all that motivation dissipated once I realized that I would have to do STEM shit for the rest of my life

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:31:32 2020 No.15288575 >>15288528 Borges is top-tier mathcore. I'm just a hobbyist, but reading about foundations really reminds me of his stuff.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:33:31 2020 No.15288583 >>15288561 Enlist, it will make you a man.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:33:37 2020 No.15288584 >>15288561 bee urself :)

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:37:36 2020 No.15288601

>>15288561
Even if you did that course, it wouldn't mean you'd be tied in to doing STEM shit for the rest of your life. People overstate the need for specialisation, some jobs need it of course, but you'll be surprised at the options you can get if you keep going and prove you're competent.

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:38:09 2020 No.15288604

>>15288561
Go back and study the things you actually care about. If you couldn't submit yourself to STEM education, that probably wouldn't have been a good career field for you anyway. I'm sure you're on /lit/ for a reason, take some English and Philosophy and History classes and figure out what you care about.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:38:32 2020 No.15288608 File: 54 KB, 800x450, 1516407273876.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >all my friends have had girlfriends now

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:42:39 2020 No.15288629

>>15288310
History and Studio Art. Depending on how well I do on the LSAT this October I'll probably do law stuff, whatever that means

Confederacy of Dunces (love it)
War and Peace (less than 100p in)

Ok. I need to break up with my gf but I don't know how to go about doing it. Landed a remote internship so that'll keep me occupied till the (hopeful) start of fall semester. I also have some sort of body dysmorphia and this whole gyms-being-closed thing is really messing me up

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:44:55 2020 No.15288644 >Degree (or career)? Management consulting >Currently reading? Crime and Punishment >How are you holding up? Been questioning my life choices for about a year or so. I'm slowly feeling uneasier.

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:45:28 2020 No.15288647
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>Fine arts
>The Republic

I'm trying mural painting. Want to do my graduating theses revolve around society and identity. What I'm planning is to try to get communities to embellish their neighborhoods, giving them tools and knowledge and guidance, but trying to paint their ideas as best as possible. Teach them how to appropiate of spaces, so hopefully our city becomes a bit more beautiful, to feel that it's ours.

Pic is my first mural, from a couple weeks ago.

Don't and can't think about my economic future though.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:46:18 2020 No.15288649 >>15288310 >Degree (or career)? Computer science >Currently reading? The Plague >How are you holding up? Quite bad, at least corona have given me some nice free time to nurse my hobbies and alcoholism

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:46:32 2020 No.15288652

>>15288310 (OP)
>Degree (or career)?
Mathematics (still in school)

>Currently reading?
Proxima by Stephen Baxter

>How are you holding up?
I was actually going to asphyxiate myself with argon this week but decided to rally one last time to get to get this schoolwork done and generally regain control of my life after there was a death in the family. I felt like the timing would be really inconsiderate if I killed myself so soon after my relatives lost someone else. Of course, professors are too busy to give a shit about what one of their retarded students is up to: While I managed to catch up in all the remaining assignments and pass all my final exams, I didn't turn in enough homework to actually pass any of the courses I had.
The grammar on the original post was pitiful for /lit/. I deleted it just to fix some of that mess.

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:47:06 2020 No.15288655

>>15288310
degree/career
Philosophy, going into Law Enforcement
>Reading
The Republic
>holding up
I have a polygraph coming up, which is nerve wracking. I know a couple of people who've done it before, with greater life experience, and they were layered in sweat from it. I feel better about it now, but who knows how I'll feel 5 minutes before it starts.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:49:57 2020 No.15288664 >>15288647 that's pretty cool, keep it up

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:51:30 2020 No.15288672 >>15288664 Thank you

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 04:52:08 2020 No.15288675 >>15288310 >Degree (or career)? Software Engineer >Currently reading? Nothing, library is closed due to corona >How are you holding up? Great, I don't do much work. More time to invest in hobbies. Even started to write.

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:55:41 2020 No.15288690

>>15288310
>English Lit

>infinite jest for my dissertation

>I'm doing better as I have spent the last three years hermetically smoking weed all day everyday. The lockdown meant I couldn't buy weed as easily so i stopped smoking. The ((irony)) of reading IJ just after quitting weed isn't lost on me, I'm quite literally Ken Erdedy.

Anonymous Wed May 6 04:58:54 2020 No.15288706

>>15288521
Philosophy classes are harder than they look, at least once you hit a certain level (200+). A lot of guys in other majors come in hoping for an easy course to blow off, but get surprised by the workload and the amount of dense reading which they don't understand (because they don't put in the time, especially for contextual and historical vocabulary). Everyone's a philosopher, so they think, which to them means stating their banal opinion in class, but don't understand why they're failing. So it's harder to bullshit your way through a paper. It's not intrinsically hard, but it is when you blow off the reading and try to skim through it, which might happen if it's on the sidelines.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:07:05 2020 No.15289203 Philosophy I was reading Philosophy and the mirror of nature but I gave up. I fucking hate Rorty. Not well, this course is purely analytic whereas my training is continental. Ive likely ruined my prospects of a PhD with it.

Anonymous Wed May 6 07:18:44 2020 No.15289274

>>15288310
> PhD in maths (graph theory, random matrices), now a postdoc
> also have an MsC in Humanities (mainly economics and history)
> currently reading the Gnostic writings of the II-IIIth century and also Dune
> I want to find a research/teaching position but the current job market for academics is totally depressing

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:19:03 2020 No.15289277 >Master in Law & Finance >Sapiens, Post Office, No Exit (Sartre) >In the countryside, working on my thesis. Pretty alright actually.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:19:49 2020 No.15289281 >>15288410 >But once school is over everything will be 100 times easier. rofl

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:24:04 2020 No.15289309 File: 233 KB, 1300x1951, 3288599-1300.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] > will begin my MSc in Finance in fall. I've had a year off studies and it fucking sucked ass. > My struggle > pretty pretty pretty bad.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:27:17 2020 No.15289325 >>15289277 Sartre bad

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:28:39 2020 No.15289328 >>15288652 chill out young turd, you're in school

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:29:46 2020 No.15289332 >Bachelor in computer science >Hearts of Darkness >I'm getting fucking expelled

Anonymous Wed May 6 07:31:27 2020 No.15289343
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>>15288644
> Management consulting
which company?
> Been questioning my life choices for about a year or so. I'm slowly feeling uneasier.
How so? I'm also interested in management consulting or PE, and I'm pretty good at maths and finance and all that stuff but have lately been wondering if it's a waste to go in that direction and if it's right for me.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:31:53 2020 No.15289346 So I suppose that some people are American. What's the difference exactly between Bachelor, MsC, BsC, undergrad, grad, etc?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:35:14 2020 No.15289363 >>15289346 first you take undergrad or BSc or Bachelor's , differrent names for the same thing. it's 3 years in my country. Then you take MSc, Master's, graduate, typically one or two years.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:37:49 2020 No.15289381 >>15288310 maths les miserables walden runaway horses sick of being inside for so long, want to go back to uni family is getting on my nerves and I can only leave the house for runs

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 07:39:47 2020 No.15289392 Im quite surprised at the number of people claiming to be in maths here.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:04:54 2020 No.15289468 >>15289332 How so Anon?

Anonymous Wed May 6 08:14:46 2020 No.15289511

>Degree (or career)?
no degree. i work as a night shift security guard
>Currently reading?
waiting for the barbarians by coetzee
>How are you holding up?
kind of running the gamut of the human experience right now. lots of high highs, low lows, and much of what lies between. i'm at a bit of a transitional point in my life right now, and although i'd bet that's kind of going around right now, it's likely for different reasons in my case. i feel energized lately, but not always positively. it's alright though.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:15:00 2020 No.15289515 File: 40 KB, 565x850, CanopyPF98318-Custom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Degree (or career)? Masters of Fine Arts in Photography >Currently reading? Blind Owl >How are you holding up? Kek, i don't know anymore

Anonymous Wed May 6 08:16:54 2020 No.15289529

>>15288310
>Psychology

>The bible as well as supplemental material.

>Kind of just tired. I feel like the last 4 years have been a waste. Unironically plan on joining the military come this time next year. Don't get me wrong, the degree itself will come in handy, but my choice of major is more or less useless without further schooling. It doesn't help that the large majority if not the entire course load can be learned on your own.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:17:39 2020 No.15289537 >>15288310 Graduated double honours in literature and philosophy. Reading pynchon, but properly this time No job, but at least I can tell the pseuds from the smarties on this board

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:19:16 2020 No.15289543 >degree Energy Engineering >reading Catch-22 >holding up I've been tired for a very long time, lads.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 08:23:27 2020 No.15289568 >>15288310 Nothing Irish Ghost Stories Fine, a bit sleepy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:21:33 2020 No.15289924 >>15288310 >Industrial and Labor Relations w/ minors in Asian studies and Math >In Praise of Shadows >Fine, online school is dead easy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:41:52 2020 No.15290022 >history >Moby Dick, studying Latin >was doing great but sleep issues are fucking me so I'm going to see a urologist

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:43:36 2020 No.15290036 >>15288310 >Business and Management >Never Split the Difference >Tired of being at home but Im doing major progress in learning about psychology which is a topic I really love so pretty good overall

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:46:51 2020 No.15290052 > BS in Economics, Analyst, Might go for MS and PhD > The Unique and It’s Property > lost and confused mostly

Anonymous Wed May 6 09:49:58 2020 No.15290063

>>15289346
Undergrad is Bachelor’s and Associates (2 to 4 years of schooling) Grad is Master’s and Doctorate’s (2 to 4+ on top of undergrad). The acronyms indicate what level and field so a BS or BSc is a Bachelor’s or Science, a MA is a Master of Arts, a DEng (rare but a thing) is a Doctor of Engineering, etc.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:51:27 2020 No.15290071 >>15289281 It's true though. I'm not saying college by itself is hard, but mixed with full time work and having a kid it's hard. By itself it's nothing, honestly. Easier than work for sure.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:52:21 2020 No.15290080 >>15288310 >rhetoric >anatomy of criticism, Labyrinths by Borges, Mythologies >5/10 struggling to finish my finals, hard to stay motivated

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:54:01 2020 No.15290095 >>15288310 >biology, Pre-med track, desk jockey for the bills >The Name of the Rose >Sylvia Plath collection of poems >looking into being a tutor, been offered by a couple of people, but have no social presence and need to establish one.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:54:10 2020 No.15290098 >>15290085 >30 >too late for me Yikes my guy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:54:20 2020 No.15290101 >>15288644 Ended up doing the same thing when I landed in IB before I left.

Anonymous Wed May 6 09:54:31 2020 No.15290102

>finished 2.5 years of 3 of an international politics/economics degree with a H1 average
>had mental breakdown due to PTSD with about 7 assignments to go and dropped out
>have spent the 5 years since living in self-imposed isolation, writing mostly terrible fiction, wishing i was dead
>about to turn 30
>currently reading No Longer Human

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:55:34 2020 No.15290107 >>15290098 deleted original post to add currently reading >>15290102 it feels too late

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 09:57:47 2020 No.15290123 >>15290102 My brother went through something similar. He went back to school at 27 so a bit younger but not terribly for a different field. He’s doing extremely well and appears to be fairly happy. Do you think about going back?

Anonymous Wed May 6 10:01:07 2020 No.15290150
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>Degree (or career)?
Electrical engineering UHF spec

>Currently reading?
Summer by Albert Camus
Psychology of the Unconscious by Carl Jung

>How are you holding up?
i'm fine plenty of free time during the lock-down

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:03:33 2020 No.15290165 >>15290123 I do, and I might. They might actually let me finish my degree due to compassion for my mental illness. I've just wasted so much time, it's crushing

Anonymous Wed May 6 10:04:09 2020 No.15290170

>>15288322
Lmao I'm in the opposite track. Thinking of switching from humanities to CS. Humanities are not only worthless and won't get you a job but they're also no less prone to create bugmen. If you don't believe me, start looking at Thesis and papers written in academic journals.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:06:15 2020 No.15290180 >>15288310 >law >Roadside Picnic >I lost all track of time since the lockdown

Anonymous Wed May 6 10:10:03 2020 No.15290212

>>15288310

> Degree (or career)?
Computer Science and Math, now do generic tech shit

> Currently reading?
Herzog by Saul Bellow

> How are you holding up?
Not bad, work pays well and I don't have to do all that much, getting married soon and have a decent amount of time to do my own stuff

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:17:25 2020 No.15290257 Computer Science, working on computer forensics History of philosophy I - copleston / kant - roger scruton / the catcher in the rye Pretty good desu, due to this Corona thing I'm having plenty of time spare not having to commute to work

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:20:11 2020 No.15290282 >>15288322 don't switch to the humanities you will regret it. its full of braindead political activists and you will never get a job with that type of degree

Anonymous Wed May 6 10:25:48 2020 No.15290307

>>15288310
>music
>da vinci code
>terrible. Just lost my two best friends yesterday because a friend of theres somehow convinced them that I'm a sociopath?
A story is here. Try to avoid texting people heaps because it can be grossly taken out of context. Fuck.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:32:20 2020 No.15290355 >>15288655 Anon, to beat a polygraph you have to literally convince yourself that your “lies” are the absolute truth. You must relax too, avoid caffeine before going in, take some ashwagandha to calm your nerves.

Anonymous Wed May 6 10:35:01 2020 No.15290371

>Degree (or career)?
Music Theory on college

>Currently reading?
Borges - Freud
>How are you holding up?
Pretty fine, most online courses are easy, the only two time demanding ones are interesting (Music History and Music Pedagogy). Also studying liturgical organ but thinking about switching to Choir Directing due to arthritis or finishing MT and taking philosophy/sociology while working (I don't know which one would be better).

Anonymous Wed May 6 10:36:30 2020 No.15290385

>>15290355
this is bullshit. the weakness of the polygraph is that there is still a fallible human being on the other end who has to make an interpretation. the idea is not to give no reaction at all (this will likely cause the proctor to become MORE suspicious) but to find a way to react inconsistently to truth and falsehood. the absolute best way to arouse suspicion is to have no reactions at all, since they will be attempting to actively determine your biological responses to telling the truth and a lie with obvious questions before diving into the meat of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:40:39 2020 No.15290410 >>15288310 Grad history, retail but saving for archivist masters Ithell Colquhoun - The Living stones Wish I could save more I can be out of here

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 10:42:38 2020 No.15290423 Nada, workwork as freelancer translator "The art of faking Arabic" to understand my bdp sperg spouse Sinking ever so deeper, just got well after a covid bout

Anonymous Wed May 6 10:44:39 2020 No.15290443

>>15288310
>Supply Chain Management
>Currently rereading Paradise Lost
>I’m alright. I’m graduating this semester and I have a job lined up so things could be worse but I have been feeling somewhat depressed because I can’t stop thinking about the fact that I spent 5 years in college and during that time I didn’t make a single friend and I’m still a khv.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:10:24 2020 No.15290612 >all these stem fucks no wonder this boar is utter shit

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>>15288310
>Medicine (medical student, psych resident next year)

>À la recherche du temps perdu, been reading it for like three years cause I'm hella busy

>Pretty good, thanks for asking. Excited to finally make some money pretty soon here.

Anonymous Wed May 6 11:42:52 2020 No.15290832

>>15290165
That’s good. I can sympathize with the feeling of lost time though. At the end of the day, we can’t operate with a mindset of sunk costs. The better thing to do would be to appropriate our past to fit what we want for our future. I mean, you might as well right? The only thing worse than realizing lost time is realizing lost time and then giving more away.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:43:55 2020 No.15290842 >>15290282 What if I already have an employable bachelors and am considering humanities for graduate school?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:46:18 2020 No.15290861 have an econ degree but i'm in the military moby dick with the /lit/ group probably gonna commit suicide soon

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:51:48 2020 No.15290901 File: 23 KB, 554x554, images (51).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15290861 Don't dew it

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:52:15 2020 No.15290907 >>15290861 Are you an officer? Econ degree considering the military here.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:56:19 2020 No.15290938 >>15289203 >Not well, this course is purely analytic whereas my training is continental. Ive likely ruined my prospects of a PhD with it. What happened?

Anonymous Wed May 6 11:57:21 2020 No.15290948

>Degree (or career)?
Law
>Currently reading?
Scarlet Gang of Asakusa by Kawabata
>How are you holding up?
Pretty bad honestly. Got fired a month ago and this shutdown is making me face the fact that i was fired because Iam passionless and sad at the ripe age of 24 and can't really put myself into anything. My family is experiencing financial crisis and I don't have the balls to ask for help rn so I am sulking on it for now. Besides that been reading some excellent books lately and despite the shitty state of /lit/ it is full of good and sincere people. Thanks for the question OP and sorry for the blogposting

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 11:57:31 2020 No.15290949 >>15290907 yeah it's a good deal got free school and guaranteed employment and if you can put up with your job being 90% bullshit the other 10% is fucking awesome

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:03:24 2020 No.15290991 >>15290949 It just sort of seems like maybe one of the few things worth doing anymore. I’d probably go right for a PhD or Master’s after. The only thing stopping me is I’m a bit older already at 27.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:07:30 2020 No.15291024 File: 540 KB, 639x960, 5e503c60d8afaf75240eb08577a256f0.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >English Lit First Semester >Currently Reading Kizumonogatari >How are you holding up I fucking hate poetry and it's pretty meh.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:09:32 2020 No.15291037 >>15290991 You won't be the only one your age. It's been good for me. Do it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:11:07 2020 No.15291045 File: 45 KB, 960x585, 66775095_2174044199384738_477873823882936320_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Psychology >Faust >Pretty good. I've been in therapy for a lot of months and I honestly feel I can control better my emotions.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:13:16 2020 No.15291059 >gonna buy a computer off a friend so I can learn how to code >Napoleon Hill-Think & Grow Rich >despite everything going on, I'm doing alright

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:13:22 2020 No.15291061

>>15289343
>which company?
One of the most prestigious global ones.
>How so?
Many personal and professional reasons. I suppose a lot of it boils down to me feeling uneasy spending so much of my time doing work I don't feel is very valuable (to me, at least).
>I'm also interested in management consulting or PE
Can't speak for PE but go do some internships and see if it suits you, it's the only real way to tell.

>>15290101
I hope you found what you were looking for elsewhere, anon.

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:15:30 2020 No.15291078

Did bio, do marketing

Boccaccio

Bored and annoyed with work. People up top are pushing for re-opening plans and we're acting as if we're opening in June when realistically we are going to be last to open by the gov't and not likely until August. But enjoying working from home. It's amazing what a relief not having to commute is.

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:16:12 2020 No.15291083

No Degree, I did IT a bit but really just half assed it. (like every other it person)

Moby dick

Got laid off so I get to be a guilt free NEET during this quarantine shit so thats nice, but otherwise it's meh. Really losing motivation to do anything desu

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:18:41 2020 No.15291093 >>15288561 Sign up for SSI, food stamps and look for public housing.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:18:57 2020 No.15291097 >>15291061 >I hope you found what you were looking for elsewhere, anon. I didn’t but still it’s been better.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:21:54 2020 No.15291119 Graduated law school last year, recently passed an insanely hard exam to become a judge/prosecutor in the next 3 years. Moby Dick Pretty good, quarantine felt like vacation, starting online courses in a few weeks.

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>>15288310
High School Dropout.
Well versed in psychology, pharmacology, philosophy, politics, and economics.

I don’t get to have a future, but retards who did the bare minimum to get through life do.

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>>15288310
>>15288310
20 yo High School Dropout with no job..
Well versed in psychology, pharmacology, philosophy, politics, and economics. I’m a fucking genius.

I don’t get to have a future, but retards who did the bare minimum to get through life do.

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:33:33 2020 No.15291197

>>15291142
Based anon. I suggest applying for SSI and food stamps for now to hold you over and then take the GED. Once you're 26, financial qualification status changes at universities and you might be able to get in. Make sure you max out your loans once in and then once you make it to grad school, you'll be set and be able to extract 22k for living expenses from your loans. Debt really doesn't matter if you don't need to pay it back. Quickest way to KYS in your situation is to listen to the Dave Ramseys of the world.

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:33:54 2020 No.15291203

>>15288310
>Degree (or career)?
BA in Classics, graduating next week (over zoom lol) and am starting my Master's in the fall
>Currently reading?
Rereading Brothers Karamazov because I'm feeling a little depressed
>How are you holding up?
Not the greatest I've ever been but I'm trying to pull myself out of it

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:35:26 2020 No.15291212 >>15291162 you can still have a future mang. why not finish a GED and go to college? Or learn a trade and be a patrician carpenter or something?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:36:28 2020 No.15291223 >>15291078 Decameron is based quarantine reading

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:36:59 2020 No.15291229
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>>15288310
>English
>The Iliad
>Been an unemployed for over a year. The one good thing is that I've been basically unaffected by coronavirus. I bought a kindle so I can get lots of ebooks, so that's been nice. Other than that my life kinda blows, but judging by this thread I'm not alone in having a shitty life lol

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:38:08 2020 No.15291239 >Degree (or career)? Literature, currently working on a LIS master's >Currently reading? A cataloguing manual >How are you holding up? Back hurts and I want to go out.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:38:49 2020 No.15291242 >>15291229 nice anon how are you enjoying the iliad?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:40:06 2020 No.15291252 >English >Invisible Man >I feel tired all the time

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:42:19 2020 No.15291271

Anthropology
About to start Knut hamsuns look back on Happiness after finishing Mysteries, have never read on of his books that i didnt enjoy thoroughly.
Feeling bored, searching for work to not be saddled with ridiculous debt next year right as i graduate. Considering moving south to look for some cash labour work to supplement ny government gibs

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:42:29 2020 No.15291274 >>15288310 political science, currently working for the mayor's office in my city the sixth extinction by elizabeth kolbert total shit, moved back in with parents because nyc is the epicenter of america

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:43:10 2020 No.15291283

>>15288310
>Degree
Accounting

>Currently Reading
The Spirit of the Laws

>How are you holding up?
The triteness of life, the lack of love, all the little things that team up to work against me, it's so tiresome. It's made me tired and the exhaustion lasts from sunrise to sunset. It's been so long since I've felt human.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:43:27 2020 No.15291287 >>15291162 >>15291197

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:44:22 2020 No.15291300 >>15291097 What did you move on to and where are you headed?

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:46:27 2020 No.15291316

>>15291242
I like all the character focused scenes: Hektor talking to his wife, the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon, Nestor trying to properly guide the Greeks. All of that stuff is gold. What I am not enjoying is the drawn out battle sequences. Page after page of:

"GREEK SOLDER #13434, SON OF SOME GREEK FARMER WHO HAD A FARM BY A RIVER, PLUNGED HIS SPEAR INTO TROJAN CAPTAIN #654363, WHO WAS A WELL RENOWNED CLAY POTTER."

There's just to many long descriptions of very minor characters who exist just to get murdered. I'd prefer if the focus was on the main characters. That being said, I do like how violent and gory the battles are. Homer literally describes peoples brains oozing out of their skulls as well as their bloody teeth falling out of their head after getting stabbed in the jaw. His descriptions really do paint a vivid image. Overall I'm enjoying it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:46:47 2020 No.15291322 >>15291223 Very based. I'm slowly plodding through the Payne translation that is very dense and Victorian. I wish I had a copy of the Rebhorn translation which I read the first few hundred pages or so last year. A lot more accessible.

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:48:09 2020 No.15291332

>got my BA in anthropology from a top 4 university in December; have absolutely no life path right now, trying to start a lit magazine and thinking about grad school in IR or something

>Journey to the end of the night by Celine; just finished diary of a country priest by bernanos

>I think about suicide every day But I’m trying to write more fiction and spend lots of time outside to fend those thoughts off. luckily I am also in a city/country that is more or less quarantine free but I can feel my horizon of experience getting smaller every day. also have no income and my savings depleting

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:49:15 2020 No.15291345 Doing my PhD in philosophy Sex and Character + Proust Feeling pretty good, an hour ago some slutty broads tried to bum a cig from me as I was smoking in front my local supermarket, just uttered "no" and walked away

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:50:00 2020 No.15291352 >>15288310 > masters of bioinformatics > fear and trembling and crtique of pure reason > ive given up on happiness, ive resigned myself to misery, things cant and wont get better

Anonymous Wed May 6 12:51:14 2020 No.15291360

>>15291316
Hektor talking to Andromache is my favorite scene. I understand the "list of killing" stuff seems kind of boring, but after a while I think it really wears on you and conveys a deep sense of endless death. Hope you like it b it's my all time favorite

>>15291322
damn man the decameron reminds me of being a freshman in college sick with pneumonia. Just laid in bed for 7 days and read that shit

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 12:57:04 2020 No.15291412 >>15288322 If you're on 4chan you have time to read. Do NOT go humanities--I started with history and added quantitative social science just to feel like I wasn't being lied to

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:04:06 2020 No.15291467

>>15290938
I haven't done well in my essays, basically. I've passed them but the funding bodies in the UK demand a higher grade, typically. I put this down to my complacence, anxiety and the alien nature of the course really. So, whereas my undergrad was concerned with questions emerging from 20th century phenomenological and existentialist tradition and religious philosophy, my postgrad is exclusively focused on the philosophy of mind and analytic tradition. The methodologies required to answer questions are therefore different.
Either way, if I want to get a PhD now, I'll have to either become a researcher and get a few years of experience, or take a research degree. Not fun either way since it's more work just to get where I want to be.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:04:11 2020 No.15291468 >>15291037 What will you do after?

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:04:51 2020 No.15291473
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>History-Literature (basically critical theory), currently researching grad schools
>I haven't been able to read in months. Last read "The Agony of Eros" by Byung-Chul Han in February
>I feel like shit. I don't even know if grad programs will be operational in a year. Also developed sciatica from sitting all day for the last two months.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:06:51 2020 No.15291487 >>15288310 >mathematical statistics >TBK >Bored as fuck with corona, can't go to parties and drink, I'm a fucking alcoholic but I don't care

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:07:02 2020 No.15291490 I work at a research firm, doing survey research and political polls. Currently reading On reading grief and reason by Joseph Brodsky. All the days start to become one boring blur.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:07:26 2020 No.15291495 >>15291300 I took a consulting job at a nearby university and started working through a master’s program there, but dropped out a few months ago. I have no idea where I’m headed to be honest.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:08:31 2020 No.15291498 >>15291345 >Doing my PhD in philosophy Worth it?

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:09:34 2020 No.15291512

Had a B.S. already in something practical but went back to university to see if I'm cut out for philosophy. Ever since I took an introductory class as an elective I've been hooked. Took three classes and got an A in all so I think I'll try my hand at grad school. Maybe I'll make it who knows but life is too short not to try.

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:12:01 2020 No.15291529

>>15291162
Dude, you’re 20. It’s not over for you. Why don’t you get yourself a trade or something where you can make a living and start pouring yourself into something on the side: write, start a business, whatever. If you’re as smart as you say, we’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t waste it. We really can’t afford to have the unintelligent masses continue to dictate daily life.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:13:03 2020 No.15291538 >>15291512 Considering doing exactly this but I’m just not sure. Mind if I ask your age and when you expect you’ll have the second bachelors?

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:18:40 2020 No.15291591

>>15288310
> CS/Econ - Data Scientist/Computer Programmer. Official job title is software engineer. Plan on returning to school for an MBA. Career endgame is project manager or CEO
> JR, Blood Meridian, Gravity's Rainbow, Don Quixote and a work book.
> I'm OK thanks for asking.

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:20:23 2020 No.15291611

>>15291538
This may seem odd but I'm not going to complete a second bachelors. Let me explain since this may seem odd depending on where you're from. But here in the U.S you don't necessarily have to have a bachelors in philosophy before moving on to a masters. You just have to show promise plus the three letters of recommendation as usual. To do this though you have to really knock it out of the park and have good relations with your professors, they'll be writing your letters after all. Plus it's not really strange to go on to the masters rather than straight to Phd so you can get more experienced in the subject.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:23:20 2020 No.15291635 >>15291611 Also forgot to add I'm 26.

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:26:09 2020 No.15291650
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> Philosophy and Economics
> Thinking, Fast and Slow, and Nicomachean Ethics
>eh, the only opportunity I had to study abroad was just cancelled. Enjoying quarantine and almost done with finals so it’s not all bad.

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:26:38 2020 No.15291655
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Anyone going to Skidmore? I'm committed and will attend next year if Columbia doesn't pull me off the waitlist.

I want to major in Philosophy but it's probably not practical. What's the best quantitative social science?

Hyronimus B Wed May 6 13:27:03 2020 No.15291660

> no degree, dropped out twice(economics and then finance) working trade;mechatronics to be exact

>introduction to philosophical ethics+hearing electrical engeneering lectures online

>Currently doing well. Im writing a short story for a contest, challenging myself with robotics and electronics. Im finally moving out of my parents house tomorrow after sleeping on a mattress in the living room for 2 years.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 13:29:14 2020 No.15291675 >>15288310 I study Electrical Engineering Currently Reading Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Currently in finals week from the comfort of my bedroom and am not enjoying it.

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>>15288310
>Biomedical Engineering
>Beyond Good and Evil
>This has been the worst semester in my life and have put some legit thought into giving up, but right now I feel like doing so would be a waste since I'm almost done with the masters and I want to write a interesting thesis
Hope you guys are enjoying your books

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:54:15 2020 No.15291874

>>15291611
>>15291635
I understand completely. I’m also in the US and just turned 27. I already have a BS in Economics so was thinking about doing the exact same thing and applying for the MA. Have you ran into any issues so far? I’m still not sure to be honest but I’m enrolled in classes for summer.

Anonymous Wed May 6 13:57:32 2020 No.15291900

>>15291611
>>15291874
And to be clear I just said bachelors because I assume you’re taking undergraduate level courses. In my case, I might have to take up to 2 years of courses to make my application competitive enough. Philosophy is my only real interest but I’m still unsure if it’s the right move.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 14:26:47 2020 No.15292130 >>15291061 I guess it's one of MBB then, are you afraid of saying which? there ar literally thousands working there globally

Anonymous Wed May 6 14:29:28 2020 No.15292152
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>>15291874
It's been fine so far. Just have to study for the GRE and and get everything else I need together. But I haven't ran into any issues as of yet.

Some tips
If you look around online you can find the best universities that are more focused on what you're interested in. On forums people make recs to point you in the right direction.
Look up faculties at universities to make sure there are people there that have the same interests as you.
Have the rankings in mind but don't completely lean on them. Universities that focus on continental philosophy can have placement rates as good as the best universities, just look up data and do lots of research to get a list of possible places together. Unfortunately the ones responsible for the most well known rankings have a bias that leave out universities where employment prospects are as good as the best places because they have preconceptions of what the subject is supposed to be like, ignoring all the forms of it in its history. But what's funny is I'm sure their absence from ranking means less applications, meaning higher odds of acceptance.
You don't want to study somewhere for a masters that never got anyone to a university in the last 10 years for their PhD, nor do you want to do a PhD at a place where the tenure prospects don't look good.

As of right now that's what I've gathered so far. Just try your best if it's really what you want to do. Make sure to participate in class to make good impressions on your professors (don't make cringe remarks but if you say something sort of interesting it might impressive, don't ever try to up the professor but they'll be more impressed by a good question), show that you have serious intentions (just seeing them in office hours is a good way to do that), study your hardest of course and hone your writing ability. Look up the guides online to writing a philosophy paper. Have the basics down of the structure of a philosophy paper plus show that you've thought deeply about your topic and the As come pretty easy. Good luck anon!

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 14:37:20 2020 No.15292213 Nothing anymore, community college dropout Beethoven: The Man Revealed Suicide is very appealing

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 14:38:20 2020 No.15292229 >>15288310 EE I think I was reading Pale Fire Pretending to study for finals I'm so fucked

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 14:39:58 2020 No.15292242 >>15290150 >>15291675 based ee bros

Anonymous Wed May 6 14:49:35 2020 No.15292317

>>15291900
On your second post, yeah they have been undergrad courses. Whether it's a good move or not is up to you to decide. How strongly do you feel about the subject? If it's strong enough to where you know the odds aren't 100% in your favor but you want to push ahead then do it. There's no guarantee on this road, but as cliche as it sounds most great accomplishments don't come without risk. I just don't want to be old and gray one day and reflecting on a subject I've felt strongly about and never having made the attempt to study it. You choose what matters more, immediate $ or doing something you like for a living. Making money for someone all my life and being stuck in a cubicle is not where I want to be. So either I'll make it or be grateful for the journey knowing I tried.

Anonymous Wed May 6 14:51:02 2020 No.15292329

>>15292152
>Just have to study for the GRE
I’m taking it this month at home due to corona. I just wanted to get it out of the way.

Fortunately, I’m currently working at a University that has a decent program and is known at least somewhat as continental. Another bonus is tuition is free since I’m working there. The only thing holding me back is wondering if I should stick with econ as I think I might want to leave the US one day and that would be probably be better for it. I’ve got to think about it but either way, I appreciate the advice and wish you well in your studies.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 14:51:05 2020 No.15292330 EE working in RF Death of Arthur Pretty comfy working remote, new job though and a little unsure of myself.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 14:54:30 2020 No.15292358 >>15292329 Thanks anon you as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 14:58:33 2020 No.15292382 >>15291655 Economics is ok

Anonymous Wed May 6 15:00:53 2020 No.15292408

>Degree (or career)?
Electrical Engineering (third-year undergrad)

>Currently reading?
Everything and More by DFW
Dubliners by Joyce

>How are you holding up?
I can't complain, i'm lucky to be healthy and able to afford an education. However i dont really like EE. I hate practical stuff (soldiering, programming, making PCBs) with a passion. I feel I should have gone with either maths or physics. I'm seriously considering switching degrees. But idk, maybe it's just that i quit whenever something gets too hard.

Anonymous Wed May 6 15:06:32 2020 No.15292448

>>15292152
>>15292329
>>15292329
How are they doing home GRE testing?

That's gotta be better than the in-office test I had to do. FUCK the GRE. I didn't even know it existed (I'm not American but was applying to US universities) and had like two weeks to re-learn years of math.

Tips for the writing section of the GRE, for anyone ITT taking it: practice writing the stupid essays (they are all posted online) in the EXACT manner you will be taking the test. That is, don't look at the essay prompt you will be using for your practice run until you sit down and you're already on the clock, because that's what it will be like in there. Really let yourself feel how stupid those prompts are, what it feels like to get a shitty one, what it feels like to have 30 minutes with the clock ticking, etc. If you do what most people do and look over a few of the practice essay topics, walk around casually thinking about them and what you'd write and so on, you will bias your brain into thinking this is how it will be on the test day. It's not. That 30 minutes goes by quick.

You can practice math and vocab and all that shit in a general way, but the writing section is one of the few parts of the GRE where the arbitrary structure of the test is what will fuck you. You need to train your muscle memory to write those things in the format you'll actually be given. For example it surprised me that they gave us a pencil and shitty red paper to write an outline on. I needed to write my outline via text and shift it around, but the software didn't allow that. So I had to just abandon outlines and write. That cost me a minute or two of thinking about it. Etc.

Anonymous Wed May 6 15:10:48 2020 No.15292485
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>>15292448
Masturbatory proof this advice works. 30 minutes is not enough to write a thoughtful essay. You need to train yourself to digest the garbage they give you and somehow transmute it into a professional-sounding op-ed. It's retarded.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:12:10 2020 No.15292496 >>15292408 If you take a bunch of 400 EM electives EE can be a lot like math or physics, especially if you get into plasmas, antennas, EM wave propagation etc. I was unsure of the major at times as well, I’d recommend sticking it out.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:22:11 2020 No.15292550 >>15292448 I’m honestly not sure. They sent me an email last week saying I can take it at home. I’m scheduled to do it later this month. I haven’t really been preparing like I should so thanks for the advice.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:24:58 2020 No.15292565 >>15288310 I'm stupid, so CS. How to tie a noose for dummies. See above. I miss her.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:28:18 2020 No.15292592 >>15292485 What's the fucking point of this? Are Americans trying to learn how to write crap essays or are they trying to learn things they think are worthwhile? Don't tell me they overlap.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:30:28 2020 No.15292606 >>15288310 >Graduate student for speech pathology >The Overstory Can't complain.

Anonymous Wed May 6 15:36:09 2020 No.15292638

Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. I am currently a manager.

Current:

Roger Bacon - Opus Majus
Anatol Rapoport - Conflict in Man-Made Environment
Nicolaus Copernicus - Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Jeremy Bentham - Economic Writings vol.I (Manual of Political Economy)
Aristotle - Sophistical Elenchi

I am doing well, about to talk to my two GFs and go to work for the night.

Thank you, Ramadan. :3

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:38:14 2020 No.15292645 >>15292592 It’s just a standardized test they use for graduate school admission. They’re just measuring up applicants. You’re not really learning anything.

Anonymous Wed May 6 15:38:45 2020 No.15292646

>>15292550
Good luck anon.

>>15292592
It's fake shit. There are so many things like this in the States it's mind-boggling, so many needless extra steps imposed by factitious private companies and even whole industries sometimes. "Standardized testing" was someone's idea of meritocracy a century ago and all it does is enforce the opposite.

The GRE costs $200 to take. Then guess what? It costs another $10-20 (I forget) for each time you want to "send" your "results" to the grad schools you're applying to, even though the results are a number stored on a computer and I can see them any time I want (cf. my screenshot above). But the schools are in cahoots with the testing institutes, so they won't accept hand-submitted results. You have to pay for each one you "send."

Then each application to grad school costs $100-150 on average. So just to apply for grad schools, for one year, you're out nearly a thousand bucks by the end of it all. Very meritocratic.

Look who owns this shit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Testing_Service

They also own TOEFL (the English as a second language standard) and "run but don't own" the SATs. It's one big scam. So are most MA programs now. It's a common, open joke at the biggest-name American universities that the MA programs are just cash cows. You apply for a PhD, their meaningless lottery admissions process doesn't let you in, so they "let" you pay them $50-100k/yr for an MA. At first, the world outside academia thinks these MAs are worth something, because having an MA from Harvard still sounds impressive. But now that it's been 5-10 years of them all doing these cash cow MA programs, people are starting to wise up to the fact that it's a fake degree, a vanity degree for rich people.

Also, undergraduates have gotten ten times worse since I've been here. American academia as a whole is a corrupt business, a mafia whose public front is a finishing school for rich children.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:42:43 2020 No.15292674 >>15292638 >two GF's How did you get into that situation?

Anonymous Wed May 6 15:44:20 2020 No.15292686

>>15292646
Why does it have to be extremes with you guys? :3

The academic institutions of America are somewhat corrupt, but not entirely. Their objective is to increase the learning capacity and knowledge of the people going to their institutions.

There is A LOT wrong with academia, actually more in the science and mathematics departments then you even realize, and those mistakes are the most heinous. But even in the humanities departments in some of these so-called 'learning' institutions, they are filled with social Marxist and social Darwinist propaganda. :3

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:45:07 2020 No.15292694 >>15292686 >Their objective is to increase the learning capacity and knowledge of the people going to their institutions. haha

Anonymous Wed May 6 15:45:55 2020 No.15292705

>>15292646
Pretty much. As far as MAs are concerned you have to know the inside-scoop of your subject to see if there are any that cover the tution plus pay you a stipend. I know for a fact they exist since there's a list out there for philosophy for example.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:48:30 2020 No.15292718 >>15292485 what was the prompt for the essay that you wrote?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:51:48 2020 No.15292732 >>15288310 >Jannitor >The Complete Works of Plato >good but not on my own. if i was alone i would be dead

Anonymous Wed May 6 15:52:32 2020 No.15292734
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>>15288310
>degree
Zoology preparing for a medicine postgrad
>reading
Paradise Lost this week, I'm also doing the month of may Moby Dick reading a few chapters a day.
>Holding up?
Pretty good thanks, future is fairly organised and about a year ago I began to truly appreciate being alive after years of unhappiness. Quarantine hasa been very peaceful which is nice.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 15:54:55 2020 No.15292751 >>15292732 Based, what are you reading jananon? I was working my way through Plato but hit the Republic again and was so daunted by the obligation to read it properly that I stopped reading for a while

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:00:33 2020 No.15292790 >>15292751 Not the jan but reading the Republic was one of my all time favorite experiences. Read one book of it at a time and make ample notes and realize the gravity of what you're reading, the impact it's had on Western civilization. You can do it.

Anonymous Wed May 6 16:09:02 2020 No.15292849

>>15292686
>The academic institutions of America are somewhat corrupt, but not entirely. Their objective is to increase the learning capacity and knowledge of the people going to their institutions.
It’s really not desu. I work at a large research university. They talk about degrees and enrollments as products being sold.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:09:55 2020 No.15292858 >>15288629 Just do it plain and simple. Don’t talk around the fact of the matter too much and just do it, always works the best even if it might seem hard

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:10:34 2020 No.15292866 >>15292705 What I did was find a position at my university after graduating. I work full time but can reduce to part time if I want and I get free tuition.

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>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:13:31 2020 No.15292885 File: 2.85 MB, 640x640, 1587262033955.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15292879

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:19:27 2020 No.15292932 >>15291119 españita?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:22:49 2020 No.15292952 >>15290107 Not too late desu... like thats not even halfway through life man get up and do something

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:28:22 2020 No.15292990 Philosophy degree Mere Christianity ~CS Lewis No hope for my future. Intend on dropping out, will probably work retail for a few years until I shoot myself

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:42:35 2020 No.15293083 >only one or two historychads itt wtf is wrong with this board?

Anonymous Wed May 6 16:42:44 2020 No.15293085
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>>15288310
>Degree (or career)?
law school. would start my first year this semester, if it wasn't for corona

>Currently reading?
atomic habits, going to finish it today actually

>How are you holding up?
bold of you to assume I am holding up

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 16:45:26 2020 No.15293107 >>15293083 hahahahahahahahahaha

Anonymous Wed May 6 17:17:59 2020 No.15293378

yo is a masters in political economy and IR (want to focus on the levant and learn arabic) from sciences po worth it? I'm european and did a one semester Erasmus there so i'll realistically get in for a cheap (non american price.

btw my back ground is undergrad law and political science. I trust this board more than some shitty career counselor

Anonymous Wed May 6 17:22:46 2020 No.15293413

>>15288310
> Undergraduate in Bible, will go to seminary for a MA in Biblical Studies (preferably Old Testament) and potentially an MA in Apologetics/Philosophy.

> A Happy Death, will read Dostoyevsky once I finish Camus

> Life has improved greatly since arriving on campus. Since I don't need to dedicate a lot of my time to chores as I have minimal needs, I spend much of my time reading when I'm not doing class.

Anonymous Wed May 6 17:29:54 2020 No.15293465

>>15289274
How is having degrees in differing areas like? I'd like to study multiple subjects because I enjoy learning more about systems and how the world operates, but multiple people have told me that a degree in anything that isn't relevant to my planned job/career is dumb.

Anonymous Wed May 6 17:35:18 2020 No.15293510
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>degree
CS
>currently reading
Corpus Hermeticum
>how are you holding up
I oscillate between literature and programming. I’m currently feeling motivated to program, though, which is good for my studies. Corona is a godsend for my autism and social anxiety, and I’m sure it’s prevented me from having several mental breakdowns. Life is comfy. Contemplated becoming an occultist, decided not to. I’m probably going to focus on programming because I genuinely enjoy it; I’ll continue to read literature as a hobby. Hell, I might even start watching anime again. I hope we all make it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:37:36 2020 No.15293525 >Medicine >Sun and Steel by Mishima >Fightning COVID-19.

Anonymous Wed May 6 17:37:38 2020 No.15293526
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>>15290307
losing friends hurts, anon

Philosophy/Computer Science
The Portable Nietzsche and 3-4 of BotNS
Ok, but I'm stuck inside and feel the need to get outside. Plus, I really miss weed.

Anonymous Wed May 6 17:42:10 2020 No.15293566
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>Degree (or career)?
Automation / controls engineer

>Currently reading?
Catholicism by George Brantl

>How are you holding up?
not bad, still have a job, still going to customer sites.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:42:22 2020 No.15293568 >>15291655 become a based philosophy/computer science double major. people are easily impressed by this combination for some reason

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:44:38 2020 No.15293589 >>15291345 >"no" that's kinda based..

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:46:10 2020 No.15293598 >>15291345 based, roasties go to hell

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:49:10 2020 No.15293615 >>15291468 Either go to grad school to become a professor or become an hero

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:54:54 2020 No.15293657 >>15288383 I know what philology is about, but what does a philolog/someone who studies philology do from day to say as work? Genuinly courious.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:57:21 2020 No.15293675 Bachelors in English Secondary Education MFA in creative writing MFA in education and curriculum design Currently: High school teacher Courses taught: Creative Writing Theory of Knowledge Senior English

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:58:24 2020 No.15293683 >>15293675 currently reading: Just finished Blood Meridian, starting The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac holding up: interesting. Teaching is weird right now

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 17:59:36 2020 No.15293694 >>15293657 A philologist serves coffee at starbucks

Anonymous Wed May 6 18:04:06 2020 No.15293746
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>Degree (or career)?
Batchelor of Arts, Master of Law (Juris Doctor), Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice.

Work for the government drafting legislation and developing policy.

>Currently reading?
Debt - David Graeber

>How are you holding up?
Pretty shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:15:11 2020 No.15293838 >>15293746 Only thing that gets me through is having a wife and having access to homemade cannabis tincture. >>15293675 Wow what a faggot.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:16:16 2020 No.15293847 >>15293085 Don't do it anon. Unless the degree is free and you are comfortable with depression.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:18:21 2020 No.15293865 >>15293847 https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/digital-law-library/judges-speeches/speeches-former-judges/justice-marshall/marshall-j-201502

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:19:58 2020 No.15293878 I did philosophy degree, now I am uber driver

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:22:14 2020 No.15293898 >>15293878 This was me my first year out of school. My experience was pretty brutal for a few dumb reasons, but I managed to survive and things are much better know. Keep your head up, anon, hope it's not too soul-crushing for you.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:23:52 2020 No.15293912 Masters of Public Administration The witcher saga, tower of swallows sad

Anonymous Wed May 6 18:24:06 2020 No.15293916

>>15288310
>a degree on proofreading
>septuagenarian stew by bukowski
>barely, I'm unemployed (it's impossibe to find a job in this shithole) and living in a "country" in crisis. me and my family starve at the end of every month and it will be much worse soon.

I think I'll kill myself pretty soon

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:27:44 2020 No.15293947 >>15288487 based. Gotta get out there and get after it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:29:17 2020 No.15293964 >>15293615 In that case, I hope you become go to grad school and become professor. What’s wrong exactly btw?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:30:45 2020 No.15293970 >>15293675 >>15293683 I think this is pretty based, anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:34:06 2020 No.15293990 >>15290949 >>15290991 Does serving in the military pay for grad school? I thought that only applied to bachelors.

Anonymous Wed May 6 18:38:52 2020 No.15294034

>Degree (or career)?
Accounting, do auditing for a Workers Comp board.
>Currently reading?
The Culture of Narcissism
>How are you holding up?
I'm an essential worker so I am enjoying the sense of security I have right now. But beyond that I feel stagnant, I keep thinking about how I'm going to be a CA and how I'm not excited about it or looking forward to it. All my plans up until this point was aimed towards the designation. However, I look at all the people I do know that ended up getting the designation and they're just so bland, the highlight of their lives is their gross income and shallow vacations. I really wish I got into an academic field, instead, I'm stuck doing this fucking vocation trying to tell myself the designation will give me some sort of psychological boost.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:39:34 2020 No.15294042 File: 27 KB, 720x416, 1550312598116.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15288310 Bachelor in anthropology. No need to tell you I'm jobless and on the verge of suicide daily.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:43:40 2020 No.15294070 >Waiting for uni >The Memoirs of Albert Speer >Pretty nicely actually, I've enjoyed this time to read more /lit/erature.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:50:52 2020 No.15294124 >>15294034 I hope you have some fulfilling and fun hobbies anon, accounting sounds boring as hell

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 18:59:48 2020 No.15294186 >>15293568 I thought about this or math/phil for a bit and it's pretty appealing. I feel like the philosophy would impress the San Fran tech guys cuz their obsession with rationalism.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:04:05 2020 No.15294212 >>15293990 They'll pay for a portion of graduate school (or something along those lines). Can't remember how much. You'd have to look it up.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:15:55 2020 No.15294312 >Financial Maths >Storm of Steel >Finals are killing me

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:18:28 2020 No.15294323 >STEMlord >Karl Marx Selected Writings >Used to hate myself and my mayor during my existential phase. Now with Marx, my main goal is money and my contribution to the state.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:20:02 2020 No.15294333 >Philosophy, politics, and economics >Atomised >Essays are fucking killing me and the topics in undergrad phil/pol are so boring

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:20:32 2020 No.15294335 >>15293990 i-i though grad school was like a job, where they paid you, not the other way around... b-bros?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:21:44 2020 No.15294343 File: 985 KB, 1367x760, 1588520206140.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>Going to start a Classical Archaeology PhD >>Two Spanish Picaresque Novels >>Doing Koine and Latin study with my buddy. Holding up pretty well

Anonymous Wed May 6 19:29:05 2020 No.15294399

>>15294186
That's what I study now (this is me >>15293526)
The workload depends on your school. In my case, the uni easily allows for double majoring across departments, but I'm having a tough time finishing because I chose that path late in the game.
Currently, I have a internship as a software developer and I'm feeling confident I'll find a job come next year, but who knows with the ongoing pandemic.
If anything, you can sell this combination in a number of ways: enhanced logical reasoning, abstraction, improved verbal communication (important bc comp sci people are spergs and/or chinese), or even just as an interesting hobby.

I've never met anyone else with this combination and I don't know why. It seems so natural to me.

Anonymous Wed May 6 19:34:27 2020 No.15294443

>>15294399
A fair number of people at my school did this (I guess because we have a decent CS program and I knew most people in the philosophy department). Seems pretty based desu. I was always surprised and impressed when the CS kids kind of understood what was going on in my logic problem sets.

Anonymous Wed May 6 19:36:11 2020 No.15294461

>>15293568
Having a dual CS/Philosophy major strikes me as attractive to employers because it demonstrates that you have employable hard skills and a fairly rigorous humanities background that means you can probably communicate well and aren't a complete STEMfag who has no professional interests besides computers.

Anonymous Wed May 6 19:36:26 2020 No.15294462
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Major: Business Admin, Strategy

Anne of Green Gables

Shit's hard. Failing a class, will have to make it up in the summer. Not sure how I'm gonna find a job next year when I graduate given the virus uncertainty + no connections

Anonymous Wed May 6 19:40:43 2020 No.15294493

>>15294399
It's something that's really intriguing to me now that it's been mentioned. Never heard of anyone doing it before, but you're right it seems pretty natural. I've picked up some *really* basic coding over the years but I don't really have a background in CS - is it something that I'd need a background in to pursue it in college?

If I end up getting off the Columbia waitlist I could see this combo as being pretty intensive but if I end up at the school I'm committed to right now I think I could handle it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:42:33 2020 No.15294509 >>15288310 MA International Relations Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Hopeful, but considering suicide about every other day

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:42:57 2020 No.15294512 >>15293964 Severe depression + extreme terror of growing old and losing my youth + im probably not good enough to make it as a novelist None of that is military related my military career has been by and large quite good to me

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:56:05 2020 No.15294587 >architecture >the old testament >quarantine sucks i want to kill myself

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 19:57:58 2020 No.15294596 >>15294512 Sounds familiar. I feel more or less the same way. I like to try to believe that there’s a purpose for me either way and I will uncover it with action out in the world. Anyway, I wish you well along with the other struggling anons here.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:00:42 2020 No.15294613 File: 34 KB, 746x512, 1584050386410.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15294596 thanks fren

Anonymous Wed May 6 20:01:58 2020 No.15294622

>>15294335
Technically, that’s true for most PhD programs but usually they pay you very little so you end up with debt anyway. Master’s are hit or miss as to whether they pay you at all. Very often you have to pay in full. Stuff like Law school or MBAs are typically paid in full by the student.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:02:09 2020 No.15294623 >>15294587 Are you happy doing architecture? I got into a great program then got a humanities degree instead because I was scared of it paying like shit and designing doorways instead of buildings.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:03:00 2020 No.15294626 >>15294323 Your mayor? I hardly ever think about my mayor. How do you feel about participating in the capitalist rat race though?

Anonymous Wed May 6 20:04:56 2020 No.15294643

>>15294622
>but usually they pay you very little so you end up with debt anyway
so you still have to pay tuition? or is the stipend just so little that you have to take out loans in order to live?
>Stuff like Law school or MBAs are typically paid in full by the student.
what about an MS in a stem field?

Anonymous Wed May 6 20:10:15 2020 No.15294677

>>15294643
No, for PhDs usually they’re funded so you don’t really pay tuition and you typically get a stipend for your work, but there ends up being other expenses like just general living expenses, conference travel, etc. It depends on where you are, the funding, etc. there’s a lot of factors but most PhD grads do rack up some debt from their PhD. I personally think the stipend is livable usually but people seem to struggle anyway. I guess it depends where you are and how much of a minimalist you are.

> what about an MS in a stem field?
It depends. Some programs are funded. Some aren’t. I think Master’s aren’t typically funded as much as PhDs are but STEM are usually funded more than other fields. This is just my admittedly limited observation.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:12:09 2020 No.15294689 >>15294677 thanks for the expertise anon. i wanna go to grad school but i have no idea how it works, i just assumed it would land me a cool job

Anonymous Wed May 6 20:13:32 2020 No.15294698

>>15288310

>Degree (or career)?
Engineering
>Currently reading?
Revolt Against The Modern World
>How are you holding up?
I've been cycling a lot. I want to go to find some new abandoned buildings, I hope I find one soon. I'm pretty down that I spent last summer & first semester laying on my bed, living like 'A Man Asleep'. I'm coming round to accept this emotionally. :)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:14:03 2020 No.15294700 >>15294689 What’s your field?

Anonymous Wed May 6 20:14:26 2020 No.15294703

>Degree (or career)?
aerospace eng, working in space industry now
>Currently reading?
storm of steel
>How are you holding up?
hanging in there. not having to commute is nice but i worry that i'm coming off as an autist to my coworkers (started only a month before work from home so most have barely met me)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:19:38 2020 No.15294746 >>15294700 ee

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:34:47 2020 No.15294855 >>15288310 > Criminology (degree and field of work) and Cybersecurity (certificats and some side jobs on the side) > I just finished The road, man it really made me miss my dad > Not well but workaholism keeps me going

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:39:15 2020 No.15294893 >>15290612 cope.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:41:38 2020 No.15294906 BA in history, currently in the Coast Guard Finishing up Confederacy of Dunces, I'm between starting The Confessions, The Accursed Share, or Gravity's Rainbow It's alright, in A school now, currently looking into online programs that TA will pay for

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 20:43:46 2020 No.15294918 >>15294855 >certificats and some side jobs on the side Hello I am also interested in this, what kind of certificates are we talking here?

Anonymous Wed May 6 20:45:03 2020 No.15294923

I study medicine. Final year.
Flunked a lot before and got 1.5 year behind. But I've improved myself a lot, and ace my exams now. I believe everyone deserves a second chance.
Currently reading Mind and Cosmos by Nagel.
I'm feeling great. Went from a retarded doomer meme to a feeling good most of the time.

Anonymous Wed May 6 20:52:57 2020 No.15294982

>>15294626
>Your mayor?
Software Engineering.

>How do you feel about participating in the capitalist rat race though?
I feel neutral about it. The capitalist race is a necessary evil in my opinion, for it emancipates all areas that play an important role in the state. If it suddenly collapses is for a good reason as well.

Anonymous Wed May 6 20:53:50 2020 No.15294987

>>15294493
Ever seen Ratatouille? Anyone can code. My freshman year, I cheated my way through intro coding (CSE131) because I had no idea what was going on while other kids breezed through. Many of your peers will have a huge advantage at first because they have been coding since middle school. But once you get over the learning curve, coding can provide an outlet for creativity through designing solutions to interesting logic problems. It's a grind, but completing an assigned project has an uncanny satisfaction that's only comparable to higher level mathematics, but way more interactive.

In short, no you don't need a background, but don't underestimate the learning curve.

Anonymous Wed May 6 21:08:59 2020 No.15295066

>Degree
Economics
>Job
Accountant at a big 4 firm.
>Reading
The Idiot
The New Testament
>holding up
Pretty stress out. Have been working about 12 hours a day. Lack of human interaction is really wearing me down. Trying to hold things up, but sometimes its hard. Im thinking of quitting my job, but im also afraid of the economic recession coming up.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:14:51 2020 No.15295101 >>15294746 I see. I actually don’t know much about electrical engineering but like I said, STEM fields seem to be better funded.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:16:12 2020 No.15295106 >>15294982 Oh. Major. I thought you meant like a town mayor. Interesting take I haven’t heard from Marxists before.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:21:19 2020 No.15295141 >>15295101 i sure hope so, thanks for the insight

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:23:01 2020 No.15295156 >>15288310 >>Degree (or career)? graduated last year with a bachelor's in english lit. no job prospects that interest me. >>Currently reading? I, Claudius >>How are you holding up? doing better

Anonymous Wed May 6 21:24:30 2020 No.15295166

>>15288310
>Degree (or career)?
undergrad Econ major, planning to go to grad school or law school (sitting the LSAT and GRE later this year)

>Currently reading?
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

>How are you holding up?
not so great honestly. I'm much younger than everyone else at my college, and probably won't get in to grad school.

Anonymous Wed May 6 21:29:06 2020 No.15295190

Aerospace engineer.
I am reading, but only just started with actual good books since i started using this board.
Im alright. Starting to regret aerospace engineering. I think i only did it because of money and space is cool, but im starting to realize id probably enjoy being a historian or english major of some kind more.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:30:26 2020 No.15295199 >>15295190 Oh and im reading 1984, The Republic, and The Eighth Tower. Just finished Dune.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:30:50 2020 No.15295203 >>15295156 forgot to mention i am going to start doing online classes for HTML/CSS and see if I like it enough to continue for web development

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:33:14 2020 No.15295217 >>15288310 >Physics >The Making of The Atomic Bomb >I'm doing fine just a bit unsure of my career path

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:33:52 2020 No.15295220 >>15295166 Why would being younger be a bad thing? If anything, it’s impressive.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:35:38 2020 No.15295232 >>15288383 >>15291203 >>15294343 χαίρετε, fellow classicists

Anonymous Wed May 6 21:47:09 2020 No.15295302
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>paleoanthropology; maybe thinking of dual majoring in philosophy but i don't wanna deal with analytic as much as continental. I wanna teach in a college setting and do research in a comfy field in between science and humanities, so anthropology is a nice compromise
>being & time (3/5ths through), heart of darkness (6/10ths through)
>pretty ok, just got a custom telecaster in the mail today. Gonna play that gorgeous twink machine in between writing a paper for a class and taking some finals

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 21:54:44 2020 No.15295355 >>15295302 >3/5ths through >6/10ths through Anon...

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 22:05:42 2020 No.15295431 >>15295355 what part of "paleoanthropology major" did you not understand?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 22:30:22 2020 No.15295612 File: 17 KB, 360x360, patient2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15295355 >>15295431 i guess that's the measuring autism that makes me wanna do it

Anonymous Wed May 6 22:31:00 2020 No.15295616

>>15288310
Based literary thread of guaranteed replies
>Degree (or career)?
Ph.D. in Chemistry (working as analyst)
>Currently reading?
Whaleback's recent novels. I'm finding morose writing much less enjoyable recently.
>How are you holding up
Wife's migraines have led to her taking disability. I worry that she may lose her job, despite her assurances to the contrary. Exercise is my only daily joy.

Anonymous Wed May 6 23:16:57 2020 No.15295879
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>>15288310
>Degree (or career)?
Studying politics and government, hoping to go to grad school for an International Relations degree

>Currently reading?
A history of the Jews by Paul Johnson. Its pretty good so far, though it has done nothing to change my view of jews as natural self interested critics of their host nations. Not ll, but still.

>How are you holding up?
Pretty good, happy for classes to be ending so I can go all in on reading.

Pic unrelated

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 23:49:15 2020 No.15296060 >>15288310 >policy city government some normie murakami not bad, everyone needs to chill

Anonymous Wed May 6 23:49:45 2020 No.15296065

>>15288310
>Degree (or career)?
creative writing
>Currently reading?
idk just did some toni morrison for an english class now nothing
>How are you holding up?
bad
tranny
icky feels
stressed w finals
i make everyone hate me bc im an edgy poltard but also a tranny

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 23:56:01 2020 No.15296105 >>15288322 switch switch the market is oversatured with stem fags

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 23:57:56 2020 No.15296112 >>15295190 You can always be a P.Eng who is interested in English and History, but you can't be a historian or a writer who dabbles in engineering. You want to put yourself in a position where you don't have to worry about money.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 6 23:58:48 2020 No.15296120 >>15288310 >Degree (or career)? Studying Anthropology >Currently reading? Sun and Steel I want to read Growth of the Soil next. Does anyone have thoughts on this novel? >How are you holding up? Happiest I've been in years

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 00:01:37 2020 No.15296132 > film studies minoring in philosophy > the trial, the republic, east of eden > I want to die and I fell in love with a TikTok girl who posts about Ted Kaczynski. she's literally all I use the app for

Anonymous Thu May 7 00:05:05 2020 No.15296150
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>>15288310
>Degree (or career)?
Computer Science. Working as a code monkey in SF.

>Currently reading?
Rich Dad Poor Dad

>How are you holding up?
I'm only on /lit/ because I'm banned from /biz/ for 3 days due to shitposting and I clicked on a random board. Not a bad place. Seems to be the least toxic on 4channel so far.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 00:13:46 2020 No.15296205 >>15288310 >carpenter >suttree >drunk

Anonymous Thu May 7 00:15:01 2020 No.15296215
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>Degree (or career)?
Majoring in English

>Currently reading?
A Hundred Years of Solitude and essays by Colderigde, Wordsworth and Shelly. Out of these three, I could only proply comprehend Shelley's writing at first go.

>How are you holding up?
Feeling lost or empty. Genuinely don't know where to go from here. I'm getting a lot of pressure from my family to be a civil servant because I'm both the only son and because my sister hasn't gotten through yet. A year and half back I would've been adamant against it but circumstances are pushing me towards it. I wish I wasn't so vague with what I want.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 00:19:18 2020 No.15296249 >>15296215 Uhh who pushes their only son to be a civil servant? That's like third son tier.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 00:34:32 2020 No.15296366 >>15296249 My parents were civil servants, I'm the third and youngest child. My eldest sister was almost like a son to my parents. It's mostly because of 'job security' that it's getting pushed.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 04:03:17 2020 No.15297617 File: 131 KB, 680x1052, 1523016565255.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15291162 Seems like you got a stick up your ass. No genius drops out of high school to become a loser. Whatever helps you cope I guess.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 04:16:45 2020 No.15297675 >>15293675 Wtf those sound like excellent classes for a high school We just had "English"

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 04:47:50 2020 No.15297831 >>15292646 there is also GMAT whcich we use in Europe and I guess you use in US too. It's fucking 250USD to sit the exam, and the same payment scheme for sending the results. It works well as a standarized test though.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 04:53:03 2020 No.15297855 >>15288647 Mural looks sick dude, keep it up

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 05:12:54 2020 No.15297922 >>15297855 Thanks anon, means a lot to me

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 05:13:56 2020 No.15297929 File: 116 KB, 315x393, 1586311903760.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Degree (or career)? getting a cert in cloud computing >Currently reading? ten little niggers >How are you holding up? taking it easy

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 05:17:47 2020 No.15297945 >>15288310 >bsc in biomedical science, specialising into hematology >dispatches by herr >okay, should be revising for exam, but its online sooooo

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 08:27:48 2020 No.15298737 >>15288310 >Career Chemist >Reading Brave New World >How are you I've been feeling a little fucked up the past few months. Might have a job offer after the whole beer plague wears down, which should get me out of my current dead end job.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 08:28:04 2020 No.15298738 >>15297831 Yeah, GMAT is pretty exclusive to business schools though and those are pretty slimy here.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 08:31:09 2020 No.15298753 >Degree (or career)? Grocery store produce dept guy >Currently reading? Butcher's Crossing >How are you holding up? Apparently better than like 90% of the people on this board which is hilarious to me

Anonymous Thu May 7 10:06:11 2020 No.15299270

>>15288310
>Degree (or career)?
Its not sexy but paramedic student

>Currently Reading?
Anatomy and Physiology: The unity of form and function by Saladin

>How are you holding up?
yeah alright. So busy between 2 jobs, volunteer EMT stuff, nursing school and paramedic school and getting married october

Anonymous Thu May 7 10:11:16 2020 No.15299302 [DELETED]

>Degree/Career
Studying law.
>Reading?
Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia since 1826
>Holding up?
Haha, no, not at all. Been reading less than I would have liked, everything is shut because of a virus, and assessments are stressing me. In a weird way, it's nice to see other anon's are also struggling, I guess it lets me know I'm not alone.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 10:12:29 2020 No.15299311 >>15299270 Hey congrats! Never thought a /lit/tard would be able to pull a woman. Nervous?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 10:16:01 2020 No.15299330 >>15297922 Not going to lie anon, I skim read your first post and didn't see that it was your mural. I thought it was some stock picture of a famous one. Looks really good! You're officially more productive than 99% of this site.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 10:18:09 2020 No.15299343 >>15288310 medicine kantorowicz - the king's two bodies and leibniz - monadology quite depressed emotively, intellectually euphoric.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 10:20:25 2020 No.15299354 >Philosophy + Mathematics double major >nothing that isn't assigned >quarantine is slowly draining all of my vivacity

Anonymous Thu May 7 10:27:51 2020 No.15299397

Working on English Ph.D

Reading Moten's Black and Blur.

Eh, I'm not the most productive when I'm confined at home (need a coffee shop for work). Was planning on dropping school to do a coding boot camp but need to wait on economy to start balancing before I do that. It's weird when you reach the position you want and then realize you want something else.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 11:58:20 2020 No.15300045 >>15291162 >20 yo High School Dropout >I’m a fucking genius easy there, guy

Anonymous Thu May 7 12:05:38 2020 No.15300094

>m.div, starting a unit of clinical pastoral education (basically chaplaincy internship) in a couple of weeks

>Tampa by Alissa Nutting

>eh I've been better, but I understand others have it worse. Very thankful to have left NY before things got really bad

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 13:32:37 2020 No.15300828 > BS in Economics, Extremely torn between going for MA and subsequently PhD in Economics or switching to Politics/Philosophy > Decline of the West > I’m tired

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 13:42:07 2020 No.15300895 >>15300828 If you have the application material, just shoot for the PhD. Most programs let you bail with an MA a third of the way through, but you get funding to get it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 13:44:27 2020 No.15300917 >>15293675 >MFA in education and curriculum design why is this an mfa? not b8, genuinely curious, i'm an english teacher as well

Anonymous Thu May 7 13:59:20 2020 No.15301063

>bsc in biology
>the sublime object of ideology
>lost motivation and might be kicked out of the program after this quarter

Could be worse though. Might disappoint my family but all I really want to do is settle down with a simple job and start building a life with my girlfriend.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:00:31 2020 No.15301076 >>15294623 As far as studying goes I really like it, though I'm in some shithole southamerican country in a national university so I probably won't find too much exciting jobs over here.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:04:47 2020 No.15301097 File: 30 KB, 740x493, yellingjoe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15288310 >Degree (or career)? Mechanical and Plastics Engineering >Currently reading? Felix Krauss >How are you holding up? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:07:48 2020 No.15301123 >>15288322 Finish your degree. Having a degree like that does not doom you to bugmandom.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:10:43 2020 No.15301139 >>15296105 i think the market is more oversaturated with english degrees

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:14:10 2020 No.15301168 >>15292674 It's extremely complicated, but they know about each other and are okay with it. They come over at different times. :3

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:15:49 2020 No.15301187 >>15300895 Do you mean for Econ or Politics/Philosophy or either?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:17:03 2020 No.15301198 >>15288310 graduate Applied Math BSc reading the Sand Pebbles Fine, I have worked remotely for the past year as a dev

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:19:57 2020 No.15301231 >>15301168 Pics or disregardable, easily attainable hambeasts

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 14:21:40 2020 No.15301248 File: 15 KB, 480x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15301231 look where you are you already know they look like pic-related

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 15:04:50 2020 No.15301656 >>15301187 Either. Academia is a scam, so you should always be looking for ways to scam it back. Make them pay you for the Masters in either. Just don't fall for the PhD meme and be willing to split the moment you think you can do something else.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 15:34:13 2020 No.15301925 >>15301656 Agreed. I’m not sure my undergrad is strong enough to right to a PhD. I was a pretty shitty student actually.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 15:38:13 2020 No.15301968 >>15288310 >Degree (or career)? applied informatics third year >Currently reading? the grey house by mariam petrosyan >How are you holding up? barely, i hate my uni and i'm too stupid for this shit but idk what to do if i get expelled

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 15:42:27 2020 No.15302008 my school's website crashed while I was taking a final back to shitposting

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 15:57:02 2020 No.15302148 >>15301925 Oh you'd be surprised by how many PhDs were shit undergrads. Depending on the school all you really need is an interesting statement of purpose and writing sample.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 16:30:05 2020 No.15302470 >>15288652 >asphyxiate myself with argon could you elaborate on that methhod? never heard of it, only familiar with the exit bag. how is argon in terms of availability?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 7 16:32:20 2020 No.15302486 >>15288310 >Degree I study industrial engineering (bachelor) >Currently reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Anonymous Thu May 7 17:06:07 2020 No.15302790

>>15302470
Argon is a commonly used gas in welding. As such, you can more readily attain tanks of 99.9% argon for cheaper than you would helium of the same purity (a lot of helium manufacturers cut it anyway because helium's rare and exit bags are a liability for them).

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