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University thread

>> No.8577668

Isn't Reed that school for fat lesbians and trannies?

>> No.8577679

>>8577668
Yes

>> No.8577684
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>> No.8577694
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University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, The College of Arts & Sciences

>> No.8577700
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UC San Diego

>> No.8577713
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university of oklahoma

>> No.8577719

>>8577652

>> No.8577723

>>8577694
>>8577700
trippy

>> No.8577725
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uchicago, PhD philosophy

need friends

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>> No.8577751
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>>8577713
OU was my undergrad, but now I'm at

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who /UNAM/ here?

>> No.8577760
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UvA.

>> No.8577941
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Why do american universities try to be football teams?

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>>8577700
Normie state checking in. But ayyyyy not too far from this anon.

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I can't be the only one

>> No.8577969

>>8577713
major?

>> No.8577974

>>8577725

I would be your friend but I don't live there and I don't know much about philosophy. We would just stay in and drink and play chess though probably unless you wanted to co dependent autists and go to bars to try to impress normie women who read a book once every 10 years for show.

>> No.8577978

>>8577725
What's it like? I'm applying to your program right now.

>> No.8577996

>>8577760
Yeah me too. What are you studying?

>> No.8578157

Universidad Nacional de Tucuman

>> No.8578159

>>8577941
>karlstad
Why?

>> No.8578242

>>8577749
I heard their philosophy department is excellent and the lecturers all really understand what they are talking about.

>> No.8578246

>>8578242
They're a great school for fashion too.

>> No.8578451
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CS

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>>8578159
Why not?

>> No.8578467
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The university dropped 30 ranks on the QS World Ranking because of government cuts.
And the administration is the most incompetent people around.
Great research environment and great people though.

>> No.8578468

>>8578465
Just curious.

>> No.8578477

>>8578468
Because I live in Karlstad.

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ayy

>> No.8578497
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Shut-in autodidacts and single mothers.

>> No.8578508

>>8578497
>autodidact
>attending a university
pick one

>> No.8578519

>>8578467

I am arab but rich and I want to go there are the women nice?

>> No.8578526

>>8578451
Addazzio Sucks
York is great
I regret not majoring in philosophy so I could take a class with Based Kreeft
Poli-sci department is full of Straussians
Way to many WASPs for a school founded by Irish Catholics

>> No.8578539

>>8578508
These are not mutually exclusive, and on /lit/ of all places this should be blatantly clear. You seem to be implying that autodidacticism is a principled rejection of formal study or a lifestyle choice that is compromised by university attendance. It is possible to pursue an education in a subject other than that which you are taught – the practice of students of literature self-teaching philosophy and vice versa is incredibly prevalent, to take an example that is frequently presented on this board. Furthermore, within humanities fields today undergraduates must pursue a degree of autodidactic study if they wish to achieve a rounded education in their subject, given the dreadful and declining standards of research and teaching in most arts disciplines. Many Open University students are not in fact enrolled for the sake of education, but for qualification – I.e. autodidacts with need of a degree for career advancement or aspiration towards graduate programs.

I.e. :^)

>> No.8578541

>>8578526

>Using the term WASPs

Is life in the year of our Lord 2016 a 1990's Scorsese film?

>> No.8578583

>>8578519
>are the women nice?
The women are amazing. Intelligent, independent and beautiful.
You being arab might get you nowhere with some women. At least that's what I hear from friends with arab background, that have trouble with women because they immediately think you are a rapist.

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Lot more foreigners here than I thought

>> No.8578609

>>8578583
Is Danish with and arabic accent as big of an affront to all that is beautiful as one would imagine?

>> No.8578628

>>8578539

This. You can get A's in all your courses and still not know anything about your subject in the humanities. People who know what they're talking about mostly had to teach themselves, i.e. do far more work than necessary to get a good grade.

>> No.8578647

>>8578583

I look more white desu. I am gonna try to breed some blonde Dane girls

>> No.8578677

>>8577725
thinking of applying. what did you have to do to get into the PhD program?

>> No.8578697

>>8577652
Sup fellow Reedie

>>8577668
Mostly. It's hard as fuck to be apolitical there, most of the people who didn't participate in the BLM protest on campus the other day got harassed

Fantastic physics program though so eh it's not too bad

>> No.8578720
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>> No.8578728
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UW Madison

>> No.8578780
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JHU Neuroscience Major

>> No.8578817
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Basically the most /lit/ school in the world. Every day feels like a Steinbeck novel.

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>>8578817

>state school
>Steinback

>/lit/


haha

Try Columbia University in the City of New York. Pic is Butler Library, notice the names inscribed on the edifice.

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>>8578826
Wow, pseud the building. I guess that does belong on /lit/.

Feast your eyes on the Death Star pleb, the Infinite Jest of concrete structures.

>> No.8578849

>>8578836

gotta start with the greeks :^)

>> No.8578868

>>8578849
>cicero
>vergil
>greeks

I can see why you need that expensive education.

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Any Bardians?

>> No.8578892
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wew

>> No.8578894

>>8578868

If you know anything about the Core Curriculum, you read Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, etc (the Greeks) before you move onto the Latin authors. And I'm a financial aid recipient, so I'm sorry that you see cost as a barrier of entry.

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>>8578894
And if you had bothered to actually read those great thinkers, rather than skim through them so you could update your Goodreads account, you would know that the best life was one surrounded by the implements of agriculture because only a man that is in touch with the land can achieve greatness like the great rustic gentlemen of the enlightenment.

>> No.8578939

What is being higher educated feels like?

>> No.8578945

>>8578925

Required readings:

Homer, Iliad (Chicago, tr. Lattimore)
Sappho, If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho (Vintage, tr. Carson)
Homer, Odyssey (Harper, tr. Lattimore)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (Oxford, 4
th ed.)
Herodotus, The Histories (Oxford, tr. Waterfield)
Aeschylus, Oresteia (Aeschylus II, Chicago, tr. Lattimore)
Euripides, Bacchae (Euripides V, Chicago tr. Arrowsmith)
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin, tr. Warner)
Plato, Symposium (Hackett, tr. Nehemas, Woodruff)
Virgil, Aeneid (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum)
Ovid, Heroides (Penguin, tr. Isbell)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (Oxford, 4th ed.)
Augustine, Confessions (Oxford, tr. Chadwick)
Dante, Inferno (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum)
Boccaccio, The Decameron (Penguin, tr. McWilliam, 2nd ed.)
Montaigne, Essays (Penguin, tr. Cohen)
Shakespeare, King Lear (Penguin, ed. Orgel)
Cervantes, Don Quixote (Harper Collins, tr. Grossman)
Milton, Paradise Lost (Oxford)
Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Oxford)
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (Vintage, trs. Volokhonsky and Pevear)
Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
Morrison, Song of Solomon (Vintage)
Plato, Republic (Hackett)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics(Oxford,
trns. Ross/Brown)
Aristotle, Politics(Hackett)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
(Oxford)
Augustine, City of God (Penguin)
The Qur'an, Abdel Haleem ed. (Oxford)
Machiavelli, The Prince (Hackett) OR
Machiavelli, The Discourses(Penguin)
Hillerbrand, The Protestant Reformation
(Harper & Row)
Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford)
Locke, Political Writings, Wootton, ed. (Hackett)
Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings(Hackett)
Smith, Wealth of Nations (Modern Library)
Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
(Cambridge)
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
(Oxford)
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman (Oxford)
Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Penguin)
Mill, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays
(Oxford)
Marx-Engels Reader(Norton)
Darwin, Norton Critical Edition (Norton)
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce
Homo (Vintage)
Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Norton)
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Grove)
Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Vintage)

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>>8578939
It feels like you're just another piece of meat on the factory floor.

>> No.8578971
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>>8578945
Looks like a bunch of books you haven't read. Is that supposed to impress me nerd?

I bet your "university" doesn't even have a small communist village where students can live on campus and grow their own food.

>> No.8578972

>>8578945
The Radical Tradition, R. H. Tawney
The Uncommitted, Kenneth Keniston
Towards a Visual Culture, Caleb Gattegno
The Two Cultures, C. P. Snow
The Unprepared Society, Donald N. Michael
Machine Politics in Transition, Thomas M. Guterbock
Methods fo Experimental Social Innovation, George W. Fairweather
The Hidden DImension, Edward T. Hall
The Compulsion to Confess, Theodor Reik
The Idea of Nature, R. G. Collingwood
Games People Play, Eric Berne
Self and Others, R. D. Laing
Problems of Historical Psychology, Zevedei Bardu
Knowledge and Wonder, Victor F. Wosskopf
The Revolt of the Masses, José Ortega y Gasset
Modern Science and the Nature of Life, William S. Beck
Capital, Karl Marx.
Race, Jacques Berzun
Small Groups and Political Behavior, Sidney Verba
The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich A. Hayek
Decisions and Your Future, Kendig Brubarker Cully
The Division of Labour in Society, Émile Durkheim
The Temper of Our TIme, Eric Hoffer
The Hero, Lord Raglan
Man, Machines, and Modern Times, Elting E. Morison
Critique of Pure Reason, Emmanuel Kant
The Image, Baniel J. Boorstin
Essays in Pragmatism, William James
The Lonely Crowd, David Riesman
Consciousness Unfolding, Joel S. Goldsmith
Essays in Experimental Logic, John Dewey
The Structure of Organizations, Eric Berne
Language Cahnge and Linguistic Reconstrucion, Henry M. Hoenigswald
Freedom Today, Hans Küng

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>>8578972
>I-if I p-post my reading r-r-r-requirements m-m-maybe they w-w-won't call me a a a a pseud....

Fat chance pseud

>> No.8578999

>>8578985
Someone who has read, really read, all those books cannot be a pseud.

>> No.8579001

>>8577725
ey i live right by. Honestly basically feel like a student there.

I go to Princeton, though.

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>>8578999
>he thinks anything can make someone immune to pseudotry

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>>8579001
my nigga

>> No.8579031

>>8579019
Oh damn. What year? 19 here.

>> No.8579032

>all these people on /lit/ who claim to go to Ivies and similarly prestigious schools

For some reason I don't believe a lot of you because this seems more than statistically possible

Prove me wrong, I guess, it's just that my bullshit detector is going off

>> No.8579037

>>8579032
>>8579009

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>>8579037
Are you saying I don't go to UC Davis, the official university of /lit/?

>> No.8579329

>>8578892
this.

>> No.8579340

>>8578919
Are you in the PhD program, anon? Or undergraduate?

>> No.8579387

>>8577725
Nice, what's your interest in philosophy?

>> No.8579390
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Studying philosophy, minor in poli sci

>> No.8579391

>>8579387
I'm pretty deep in Continental land (my writing sample is on Nietzsche, Bataille, and tragedy) so it might not end up being a perfect fit. But I took a look at the grad student page and was a bit surprised to see so many people with an interest in Continental thought. Can you tell me anything about the program?

>> No.8579417

>>8579032

Why would you say that? Where I go there are a good contingent of spergs with poor social skills, but with high intellect and interest in reading. Sounds pretty /lit/ to me.

>> No.8579428

>>8579019
pls respond

We should meet

>> No.8579432

>>8579428

what do Princeton people think of us Columbia folks?

>> No.8579434

>>8577694
What a waste of a good opportunity.

>> No.8579438

>>8579434
what? Wharton instead?

>> No.8579440
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> Praesidium libertatis
> Implying

>> No.8579443

>>8577694
Isn't that the place Dennis Reynolds went to?

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>> No.8579453

>>8579443

Donald Trump was a Penn alum :^)

>> No.8579454

>>8579438
I was just teasing, you should do what you see fit. Congratulations on getting in.

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Go dawgs ;)

>> No.8579472

>>8579340
Undergraduate atm, studying English focused in Creative writing

>> No.8579490
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international relations/philosophy w/music history minor

the food music and microbreweries are the only legitimate scenes desu

>> No.8579493
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Anyone else know how shit our English program is?

>> No.8579499

>>8579432
nothing really. Personally I am a fan since I like core curriculum. I know some kids that were considering going there. Everyone loves NYC I guess, so there's that.

>> No.8579506

>>8579329
what are you studying?

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a-anyone else?

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>Surrounded by spides and shmicks in my Politics degree

Should have really studied harder and went to Queens desu...

>> No.8579531

>>8579472
How do you like your professors?

>> No.8579556
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Love this shithole.

>> No.8579573

>>8577725
Sup mate, the department does some fun shit if you decide to go. I usually get embarrassingly sloshed at the Folly. There aren't many easy ways to make friends at UChicago - I mostly hang out with mates from my undergrad frat and other international students. Pretty sure the uni will work you too hard for friends anyway...

>> No.8579593

>>8579531
So far (I'm a sophomore), they're actually all great. Know their stuff, teach well, provoke interesting discussions, provide good feedback on your writing, and overall just cool people.
You thinking of coming here?

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A-anyone?

>> No.8579631

>>8579451
what year are you anon? I just started

>> No.8579657

>>8578526

Are you in the area?

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where u all @@@ senpai?
been hella depressed nd tryna find sumthin 2 do!!!

>> No.8579824

>>8579593
For their generously funded PhD, hopefully. Glad to hear they've got nice people.

>> No.8579838
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Reporting in for The Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin

UCD peasants need not reply

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>>8577652
this isn't a safe space leave while you still have your security

>> No.8579846

>>8577996
Medicine, otherwise knows as "trying to get a student debt in the low millions"

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>>8579838
there's some memeing going on 'round here
down at prodder's conscience
watch the proclamation flapping in the wind
curriculum growing
see the librarians quietly sniggering
anon reading
it's not 1904 here
down at fuckbird's farting
cruiser's craic yeah
cranly's crack yeah
craicers
cruisers

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Have my shitty uni logo

>> No.8579988
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Its cool, I like it.

>> No.8579994

>>8578892
> think of applying to HY
> Remember that CS has more students than humanistic fields together

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>>8577652
I wish I had applied to Princeton or Columbia because this place is not /lit at all

>> No.8580025

>>8580009
Sorry to hear that friendo. But I much rather have Stanford girls over Columbia goggles.

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Best public phil program in the country

>> No.8580052

>>8580048
>met someone from your program
>didn't even know what continental philosophy was

>> No.8580062

>>8580052
Yeah we don't even mention continental philosophy in our program, I can understand how that might happen.

Also some students are just shit.

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8580065

>>8577652
Surprisingly good English department with a fantastic Honors College.

>> No.8580074

>>8580062
It's like meeting an astronomer whose never heard of astrology

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>>8577652
If you don't go to Princeton University, you are worthless trash. Pic related is me. At Princeton. I'm better than you.

>> No.8580080

>>8580074
I'm >>8580052
But that was still a good kek

>> No.8580081

>>8577700
i go there, lets meet up sometime

>> No.8580088

>>8580079
cute literary boy

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Went here same time as Sam Hyde, sat beside him in a lot of classes. AMA

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>> No.8580119

>>8580079
One of my coworkers went to Princeton. Total ass hat, sucked at his job.

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What's up

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>>8577652
hoya saxa

>> No.8580143

>>8580109
>he went to soft-serve university

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Send help

>> No.8580149

>>8580104
you like providence? grew up there - moms an artist/used to be a risd prof

>> No.8580153

>>8578889
ayyy used to go to Simon's Rock, Bard's mutant basement brother

>> No.8580161

>>8580143
>he didn't

>> No.8580174

>>8580149
I think it's very beautiful in Providence (don't live there anymore) and had lots of fun distressing things to do, but it's also quite a rich and I'm not so rich.

And RISD was nice, I did like it a lot. Had some kind and thorough teachers, although a few of them might be better suited to community college lol

What class did she teach? When did she teach there?

>> No.8580179

>>8580174
*de-stressing fma

>> No.8580184

>>8579493
>Cuse students
>Knowing how to read

>> No.8580185
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>> No.8580187

>>8579988

Amen brother. What are you studying?

>tfw in a Nabokov class full of people trying to empathize with characters and force sociological analyses
>tfw this is right after we read "Good Readers and Good Writers"

>> No.8580190

>>8578541
I wish it was

>> No.8580201

>>8580174
taught photo, in the 90s i think. been up here for the week staying with parents - providence is dope; would love to move back here to raise kids, but wish there were more jobs to be had

>> No.8580202

>>8577974
I haven't played chess since I was 5 but if you're remotely in or near Chicago, and as autistic as I am, I'll literally get drunk and talk about anime in a park if you ever need a no-pressure /r9k/ friend.

>>8577978
>>8578677
>>8579387
I'm actually squirreled away in one of the "Wait, That's a Program?" programs and very new to the city & school, so I probably can't say much of use. I am doing continental as well (sup >>8579391), basically historical ontology and meta-epistemology bouncing between Heidegger and Foucault. Lots of dilettantish interests elsewhere.

In terms of getting in, I had a good GPA and went to a recognisable but not fabulously prestigious undergrad university. I've been told my letters were helpful to my application. I had really close relationships with those professors, and they were apparently really nice to me in what they wrote. I was also told that my sample putting forward a really concrete (honestly, I thought it was too concrete) research proposal made my application stand out. But as soon as I actually sat down with my adviser, I admitted I had no intention of doing that, and she said that's pretty common, and to forget about it. But again, YMMV.

>>8579573
I'm finding it easy to become a hermit who only goes to class and the library. Didn't meet anyone in orientation. Where is the Folly at?

>>8579001
You're the guy whose qt gf is going here, right?

>> No.8580208

>>8580185
is this the great books one? what did you think? what made you choose it? what do you do now?

>> No.8580221

>>8580201
True, it's turning more into a university town all the time. More meme jobs like coffee shops and tourism. But I bet if you had a skill like plumbing or something, you could get a good chunk of work. Over flooded for everything else, unfortunately.

>> No.8580236

>>8580221
my dad says there's a lawyer for every 9 people, not that im a lawyer. southern ri minus newport plus buzzard's bay is my favorite part of the world. would like to move there once someone pays me a fuck ton for my writing

>> No.8580239

>>8580143
kek what?

>> No.8580272

>>8580239
sped

>> No.8580280

>>8580104
What was he like? What kind of student was he, what did he do in his free time?