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>Your university
UCL

>Your subject
Laws

>Which famous authors/philosophers went to your university?
AS Byatt, Ramond Briggs, John Stuart Mill, John Austin, Robert Browning, Jeremy Bentham was around for a bizzle

>Your favourite book
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

>> No.6452707

>Which famous authors/philosophers went to your university?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_alumni

>> No.6452715

Ray Monk was one of my lecturers.

>> No.6452724

>>6452692
Terry Eagleton took me for a bit

>> No.6452732

>>6452707
>>6452715
>Your university
>Your subject
>Your favourite book

>> No.6452741

Monash
Paramedics
None really, just politicians
Undecided, not really well read enough to make a call on that

>> No.6452749

>>6452692
>Your university
University of Tasmania
>Your subject
Arts
>Which famous authors/philosophers went to your university?
None (until I get published :^)) b-but we did have Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
>Your favourite book?
Just one? If it has to be just the one then Rabbit, Run by Updike.

>> No.6452759

Cambridge

English/Physics Double Major

Too many

Stay mad

>> No.6452770

I just posted this on r9k.

>tfw my review of my university got accepted on to that website

See link.

http://www.whatuni.com/university-course-reviews/university-of-aberdeen/14993/?orderby=low

>> No.6452776

>UCD

>English Lit

>James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Conor McPherson, Frank McGuinness, Roddy Doyle (lol). John Henry Numan (I dunno if he's actually a big deal in philosophy despite getting a lot of mentions in Portrait). There's probably more but I can't think of any rn.

>The Sound and The Fury, Blood Meridian or The Third Policeman.

>> No.6452780

>>6452776
>Numan

Newman

heh

>> No.6452781

Aberdeen Uni is indeed a shithole however I'm sure that if you actually made some friends and got some pussy there, that score would've been bumped up to at least a 3

>> No.6453030

>>6452759
>he thinks you can do double majors at Cambridge

nice try

>> No.6453045

>>6452692
high school going to cornell next yr

double in math or cs and phil or english lit

the sound and the fury

:^)

>> No.6453086

>>6452692
>University of South Carolina

>Law

>Hootie and the Blowfish

>All the King's Men

>> No.6453091

>>6452759
i've never read Stay Mad before. what's it about?

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6453093

>>6452759
>he thinks we have 'majors' and 'double majors' in the united kingdom

>> No.6453106

>>6453091
It's about a cool guy called Anon who pretends to have ever achieved in life doesn't afraid of anything

>> No.6453108

>Your university
University of Iowa

>Your subject
English

>Which famous authors/philosophers went to your university?
Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Yates, Anthony Hecht, the list is very long.

>Your favourite book
Taipei by Tao Lin

>> No.6453111

>>6452692
>Your university
Kent State University

>Your subject
Technology

>Which famous authors/philosophers went to your university?
Uh....Drew Carey? Josh Cribbs, if you're a punt return fan. Somebody names Michael Glaser, who i guess was poet laureate of maryland. Arsenio Hall and Steve Harvey


>Your favourite book
The disaster Artist

>> No.6453121

>>6453108
Also, little known fact, but the reason why the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa got so much funding was to concentrate intellectuals into a small town where they could easily be kept under surveillance and be turned into booze hounds and drug addicts.

>> No.6453123

>Oxford
>English
>too many to bother listing
>Don Quixote

>> No.6453128

>>6453123
>English
Language or Literature?

>> No.6453130

>>6453128
the course is called 'English Language and Literature' because we have to learn Old English

>> No.6453154

>>6453130
>'Old English'
>Even if this existed it comes within the purview of language as an area of academic study

Is your college twinned with this guy's? >>6452759


REKT
E
K
T

>> No.6453163

>>6453121
JET
FUEL
CANT
MELT
STEEL
MEMES

>> No.6453168

>>6453154
are you fucking retarded? not that guy but English Literature courses that cover Old English are rare but not imaginary.

>> No.6453172

>>6452692

>NYU

>M.F.A. (Creative Writing - Fiction)

>Lol, that Zizek guy you guys get hard off of teaches here.

>Too many

>> No.6453177

>>6453172
How's the drug use going?

>> No.6453182

>>6453172
OP here. He lectures at one of my university's colleges too

>> No.6453188

>>6453172

does he go crazy if you try to go to office hours?

>> No.6453194

>>6453168
not the guy you're replying to but I have never heard anyone refer to it as 'old english' academia. 'Middle english' yes, 'old english' no

>> No.6453195

>>6453108
I am not Tao Lin

>> No.6453196

>school

Graduate Institute or International Studies, University of Geneva

>subject

International Law

>alumni

Jean Calvin, Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, Hans Kelsen, Albert Cohen, Tarik Ramadan, Jean Starobinski, Jean Ziegler, Michel Butor.

>> No.6453198

>>6453154
>>'Old English'
>>Even if this existed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English

>> No.6453202

>your university
University of Florida
Florida State University

>your subject
Philosophy and Classical Studies
Law

>Which famous authors/philosophers went to your university
Nobody whose name I recognized
Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Morrison (yeah not really an author but songwriter and his songs started out as poems)

>your favorite book
Don't have one favorite, but for the sake of the thread I'll say Picture This by Joseph Heller

>> No.6453203

>>6453188
Office hours are pure ideology at its very finest, my friend

>> No.6453206

>>6453194
OMG YOU RETARD THEY ARE DISTINCT HAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU ARE SO FUCKING DUMB
MIDDLE ENGLISH COMES BETWEEN OLD ENGLISH AND MODERN ENGLISH

>> No.6453209

>>6453195
That sounds like Tao Lin talk to me, Tao Lin

>> No.6453212

>>6453194
You clearly aren't very well educated then :( Seriously this is fucking English Literary History 101.

>> No.6453217

>>6453209
>implying tao isn't stoned "thinking about watermelons" alone in his apartment right now.

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>>6453123
for all the weird people accusing me of lying here is the book I'm currently using to help read Beowulf

>> No.6453218

>>6453217
Why are you thinking about watermelons, Tao?

>> No.6453221

>>6452692
> your name
OP

> your MO
shitposting

> your purpose for posting this thread
to tell everyone about where you go to school and so receive attention

>> No.6453225

>>6453194
Oh the lulz

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6453232

>>6452781
Aberdeen uni is friggin magnificent, engineering is just spoilt with the oil; regardless it pisses on Edinburgh fucks Glasgow shits on st Andrew's (stuck up idiots). Aberdeen is as good as anywhere shy of Oxbridge in terms of faculty...lower your expectations in reality people are dumb... Everywhere academics pretend to be better read than they actually are... Just do extra reading yourself.

>> No.6453233

>>6453221
>your name
Anon

>your MO
Meta-shitposting

>your reason for posting in this thread
To perpetuate your everyday life of being an asshole and contributing nothing to the board while claiming others are shitposting, somehow giving yourself a false sense of superiority over all of us "plebs", which you undoubtedly mutter under your cheeto breath while you click 'post'

>> No.6453244

>>6453232
>Aberdeen and Oxbridge
>Better than Imperial

Top banter

>> No.6453249

>>6453233
>your name
Christian Bale

>Your MO
Checking and getting dubs

>Your reason for replying to this post
Nice dubs man

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>>6452692
>your university
small public research university
>your subject
geophys. engineering probably
>which famous authors/philosophers went to your university?
none :o)
>your favorite book
molloy

admitted, not attending yet, nobody cares about this but fuck am i excited

>> No.6453254 [DELETED] 

>>6453244
Faculty wise as an undergrad it seriously wouldn't make any difference...postgraduate study and doctorate I'll accept it would.

>> No.6453270

>>6453253
Good on you, son. Have a marvellous time

>>6453254
I live in a halls almost exclusively populated by Imperial students and was shocked to find very few of them are fucking insufferable sperglords.

>> No.6453285

Harvard

Literature

Matt Damon and others

In search of lost time

>> No.6453296

>>6453285
>>6453172
>>6453123
>>6452692


"Hey, I'm at a top university. Here's my no evidence"

Y'all being trolled

>> No.6453306

>>6453296
lol at equating UCL with Harvard or Oxford

>> No.6453319

>>6453253
>Won't give the name of university
>isn't even attending yet
Why did you even post in this thread?

>> No.6453325

>>6453296
I wouldn't even call NYU a top university. I got in because I had money lol.

>> No.6453332

>>6453296
missed me (>>6453045)

:^)

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6453366

>>6453296

>> No.6453373

>>6453366
>I can use paint: the post

>> No.6453384

>>6453373
lmao how mad are you just because you go to some crap community college

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6453423

>>6453296
OP reporting in. Here's a real nigga killing some snake in our library. Fresh till death, son.

>> No.6453429

>>6453423
Oh shit, I just remembered they filmed a bunch of Inception and the Batman films here too. Christopher Nolan's an alumni

>> No.6453430

>>6453384
>getting this easily rused

>> No.6453431

>>6453366
Ho lad, they call it the University of Oxford, not Oxford University. Just so you know.

>> No.6453439

>>6453431
>What is Oxford University Press

plebs up in here

>> No.6453445

>>6453439
I'm just saying, for the admissions it would say "University of Oxford" not "Oxford University"

>> No.6453451

>>6453445
well the screenshot is legit so ...

>> No.6453459

>>6453423
why is he doing that
that's not very nice

>> No.6453468

>>6453202
Which is it, because one is good, and the other is a swamp

>> No.6453474

>>6453451
nice argument for that

>> No.6453479

>>6453474
gonna stop replying now

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>>6453319
>fuck am i excited
don't kill my vibe

>> No.6453483

>>6453479
successfully mad, long time since someone got so badly rused on lit.

>> No.6453484

>>6453479
Kek, get rekt faggot

>> No.6453486

>>6452692
>university says I can't appeal financial aid, despite family being disabled and they didnt give me any money
>mfw it'll probably end up being $30k a year

My parents said they could help me pay for it but I'm kinda NOPE.png

>> No.6453487

my university
>University of NEET
my studies
>GBP econ with a minor in tendies studies
famous alumni
>Bukowski, Diogenes, Lord Byron, Melville, etc
favorite book
>120 days of Sodom

>> No.6453505

>>6453484
I bet this is the high point of your weekend.

>> No.6453594

>Maquarie University.
>Philosophy.
>Probably none. They all went to Sydney Uni.
>Howl.

>> No.6453602

>>6453505
Dig, dig, dig, dig.

>> No.6453604

>>6452776

What year?

>> No.6453651

>>6453594
Are you oriental?

>> No.6453680

ITT Tech
Computer Engineering
Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great.
Brave New World