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archiveofaffinities · 1 year

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John Pugh, Academe, Taylor Hall, California State University, Chico, California, 1981

#art #design #mural #trompe l'oeil #John Pugh #Academe #Taylor Hall #California State University #Chico #California #architecture #painting #public art

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grandhotelabyss · 4 months

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I don't wish to be unpleasant at this time of year, and I promise I'll keep this in the slum of Tumblr and won't carry it into the ever-more-respectable precincts of Substack, but Dr. Guenther's concluding call to rally around President Gay for political purposes is indistinct from the code that protected the scholar she indicts in all but name from the same charges. (I don't personally know if either allegation is true.) At an earlier moment in the expert class's convergence upon an empowering "progressive" anti-humanist agenda, the unnamed scholar hastened this convergence with his influential contention that the works of Shakespeare were written by, and I quote, "social energy." Such energy, goes the implication, requires for its proper direction and maintenance not the errant inventiveness of men from Stratford but rather the credentialed expertise of men from Harvard. Too bad he couldn't have (allegedly!) stolen a better idea. Apropos of nothing in particular, just for fun, and not because I endorse its every word, I conclude with a screenshotted paragraph from "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders":

#academe #camille paglia

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musictheoryaugmented · 1 year

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Fellow academics,

Just here with a perennial reminder: let’s do our best not to stomp on the people beneath us on the academic ladder simply because we “can.”

#PhD #academia #college #university #grad school #gradschool #academe

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anot-so-privatediary · 21 days

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This is so insecure of me but I hate it when one of my team members acts like she's the leader. Okay, so I'm a team leader for our research this semester. I think I'm doing good and functions enough for my group. At least I think so. But she kinda acts like she's the leader and all. So what I do is I just shut up and look at her messages, hoping that she'll realize I'm hating her acts for stupid reasons.

Perhaps, she's just helping me, right?! And I am just being so insecure and hateful towards others. Ugh!

Helppp!😮‍💨

#studying #life #student #tumblr #college #education #writing #uni life #university #research #chaotic academia #academia #academe

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left-hand-of-dorkness · 1 year

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today we attended a colloquium by a scholar i know and respect and we were talking about their sort of self-deprecating, open, frank, manner in talking about their own work

they would say “i have no idea what i’m doing” or “i’m not even sure what this book is about” to general chuckles

but this person studied at yale and went straight to a tenure track job. they talked after about wishing they had had a postdoc “instead of jumping right in.” They joked about the tenure process as being “boring” in some respects. They casually threw off that they were in no hurry to get this book project done because they have tenure

my boss remarked that no one not from an ivy talks that way about their work, but also commented on the gendered dynamic of apology, and settled on the favorite fence of all academics: “it’s interesting”

is it tho?

#academia #academe #scholarship #ivy league

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rawr-gorg-smash · 2 years

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@celestemagnoliathewriter it’s good to see that others feel my pain.

#just wÜf and gorg things #academia #shit academics say #best wife best life #memes #academe #academeme

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person-al-space · 1 year

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Hello, Hello!

It's been a while since the last time I took my time and write here. How is everyone so far? A lot had happened in the past months, and it's the new year, 2023! I'm so sorry for not updating that much towards the last stretch of the last semester. I have a lot of things to take in, so I decided to take a break from here and focus the remaining days and weeks on finishing my pilling case studies, reports, and exams. I will try to run you through some of the highlights of last semester but today, allow me to share my reflection from the past year.

Apparently, before the last semester ends I decided to go back to our hometown in the province and spend my holidays with my mom. I spent my remaining academic days there finishing all my requirements and attending all my synchronous classes and group meetings as I did before when I first started my graduate school journey. It felt nostalgic doing all the busy work there because it reminded me how I struggled but continued to work on my first stretch of graduate school. However, I felt better too because I felt like I had a sense of relief that I was able to do all the busy stuff at the same location but with the confidence that I already knew the basics of all of these and I am slowly having progress with everything that I am doing.

Here is my studystream selca while doing my last few requirements for 1st semester :)

I can only count on my fingers the days that I spent there that the weather was fine and sunny. Most of the days that I spent there were showering, raining, or raining hard. I was not able to spend my ideal holidays because of the cuddle weather and I even had a hard time finishing all my requirements because my body would not cooperate with what I planned to do. I was not able to do much biking and swimming like I originally planned to; sad but I guess that's how life is :).

Here is my first and last beach day in our province, it seems sunny right? But it the heavy rain poured after we took these photos, and by the way I got washed out by the big waves during this short trip. Lol, I got some bruises and I got sick after.

I will update more often this time to make sure that all of you are updated with what I am up to now. It's the second semester at our university and I am already attending some face-to-face classes and some asynchronous class meetings. I know, I know, it's my fault for not updating you guys but of course, I will share everything from now on.

As promised, here are some snaps from the last semester!

These photos was taken last year during the Christmas Bazaar here in UPLB! This was during the first night that the Christmas lights was turned on :)

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Here are some snaps during my trip to the province last December, I spent my christmas eve at the ship because of the bad weather. The big tilapia fish was from our small fishpond and mama decided to harvest some when I finally got home. Lastly, my mom got a cat while I was away, I named here Tisay because she is so pretty :).

That would be all for now, see you soon!

Ciao, Ciao!

#how to survive the academe #life in the academe #academe #christmas #provincial life #scientology #beach home #science side of tumblr #sciencelife #finals #new year #new semester

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thedarkhumanities · 2 years

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Sculture di marmo nella sala dei 500 a Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze.

By Matteo Vistocco

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stareyemoth · 1 year

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Baby ily but why are you emailing me at 10:30 PM on a Friday about lecture dates

#and why am I like HELL YES SIGN ME UP #academe

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lifeofaplumpgirl · 2 years

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When I get bored in school, I just wander around the campus to clear my head off of things. Being a psychometrician is quite stressful.

There's a sense of tranquility when I wander around the empty school grounds.

Photo above is just one of the many views I liked while wandering.

#personal #stressed #RPm Diaries #academe #school #views #philippines

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spilledcoffeefrommy · 2 years

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Dr. Taylor Swift will see you now. 💜

#Taylor Swift #NYU #swifties #academe #speech #graduation #photo ctto #22 #2022 #inspire

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grandhotelabyss · 3 months

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I know it's too early to be considering The Invisible College II: Electric Boogaloo, but nevertheless — I think an ancient Athens-Renaissance London-prerevolutionary Moscow trajectory would be incredible, along the lines of your review of Steiner's 'Tolstoy or Dostoevsky' book, tracing the ley lines of the epic/novelistic in parallel to the dramatic/tragic*.

Semester I: Homer & the Greek tragedians; plus maybe Aristophanes/Plato/some of the Romans

II: Shakespeare; plus maybe Marlowe, Jonson, Montaigne, and other environs

III: Dostoevsky/Tolstoy; plus a smattering of Chekhov/Gogol/Pushkin

*For those who haven't read it, one of John's best paragraphs: "But Steiner has a bigger point to argue, namely, that these modes—epic and tragedy—are not merely aesthetic but metaphysical, ethical, and political, bearing within themselves two very different attitudes toward life. In the Homeric-Tolstoyan epic, we find a land-based evocation of natural rhythms, of the vast movements of the seasons, an ultimately hopeful sense that vitality surges on through and past the individual, who would do well to join him- or herself to the motions of the earth. In the Shakespearean-Dostoevskian tragedy, on the other hand, we see a deracinated court-and-city world of mistrust, suspicion, demonic urges, weird passions, perverse convictions, pervasive violence, cruel comedy, an underground perspective that ends in chastened humility before the suffering mystery of things."

Thank you! This is superb; I hope you write syllabi for a living! I'd already planned to get to Shakespeare and the Russians, but this is an exciting structure, a path through the whole tradition I'd never conceived in quite these terms. I will absolutely keep it in mind.

(And for the rest of you, have you enrolled in The Invisible College yet? It's in session all year round. Please join me for the current semester, Modern British Literature from Romanticism to Modernism, to be followed by a summer of Ulysses and Middlemarch, and then a fall semester on the American Renaissance culminating in Moby-Dick. The first lecture, "William Blake: The Poetic Genius Is the True Man," is free to all.)

#academe #literature #literary studies #george steiner #russian literature #leo tolstoy #fydor dostoevsky #william shakespeare #homer #william blake

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jakeperalta · 2 months

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I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

#under this premise part time work is valid too!#personally i think i'd probably study. maybe do another masters maybe part time across two years this time #if i were to do a job job i think i'd try out working in a library (ideally an academic library). which would technically be more studying #since i'd need to get a library qualification first #i'm just very curious what people would choose if it was purely a choice of what appeals to you over the practicality/necessity #talking

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gulistan-blog · 14 days

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