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reverse gaslighting where i pretend to know exactly what you are talking about

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Things that should be easy to explain: what goes into a prospectus

What is, in fact, a nebulous concept that everyone seems to be confused by: what goes into a prospectus

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When you finally get your degree and go into the real world

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a zoom university meme pack created by yours truly to celebrate (approximately) 1 year of remote learning

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https://twitter.com/academicssay/status/1480183249028751370?s=21

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Me waiting to email people until Jan 3 and other people also waiting to email me until Jan 3

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If it's anti feminist to point out how white women historically have owned, murdered, and enslaved black people from the very inception of America to the lynchings of the 20th century to the modern equivalent of white women calling the cops on innocent black people, then your feminism fucking sucks lol

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bell hooks taught me that love must be at the center of our politics and that revolution could not be possible without love. rest easy bell hooks, thank you for everything

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Have you ever noticed that the students with the most bull-headed conservative views tend to have the hardest time passing a freshman level English class?

There’s a lot of ways to study literary theory, and this is what you’re first introduced to in university. You move from a generalised interpretive approach to a more specialised one. You have cultural, post-colonial, psychoanalytical, feminist, and evolutionary .etc literary theory.

You can’t have conservative literary theory because it’s such a nebulous concept. The closest thing would be historicism, where you could examine the literature in the context of the political movements of the time that influenced its writing. This was my field because I think it’s the only approach that you can’t ignore in any interpretation. You can argue that almost any other theory may be irrelevant in the interpretation of a particular book, but you can’t argue that the book wasn’t written at a time in the past that was different to today.

And I certainly noticed that more conservative people tended to gravitate towards this field, because conservatives think this is what they’re doing when they do things like argue against trigger warnings because “It was written in a different time”. It’s not.

Unfortunately the vast amount of authors throughout history have been liberal or at least critical of those in power, all the way back to Gilgamesh. Also conservative writers are just…terrible. Bootlicking produces the driest, most mind numbingly boring art imaginable. Basically they discover that nothing agrees with their pre-conceived notions about either the past or literature.

They could analyse the liberal interpretations of the works, while still holding their conservative views because it’s nothing to do with them, it’s about the author and the time they lived. But in general they either try to shoe horn in a conservative interpretation that doesn’t fit and so has to be absurdly, convolutedly applied, or they’ll give a criticism of the work’s liberal message, which isn’t the right kind of criticism for literary analysis.

Unsurprisingly enough, they suck at college level history as well, for exactly the same reasons.

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Artist: Ilustratorium Sara Szewczyk

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academia is 50% crying, 20% research, and 30% coming up with funny titles for every paper that you write

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To my knowledge, there are four grad student programs in the US that have either gone or strike or will go on strike:  Columbia

University of Chicago

Harvard

Illinois State University

Duke, as of right now, isn’t calling a strike, but they are calling for a fair contract. 

Something is going on in terms of grad student labor – I don’t know WHAT, but things are shifting.