#James liveblogs grad school

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#I love academic sass #also just like... yeah that tracks #James liveblogs grad school #btw I too pause to think from time to time. if you even care.

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the fundamental issue with designing a class to be a "fun" experience is that you're always going to have at least one (1) problem child who experiences those "fun" assignments as pulling teeth and would genuinely be much happier tasked with sitting in a spreadsheet and calculating transit route performance statistics

#(it's me I'm the problem child) #salt salt salt salt #James liveblogs grad school #content is for other people #this quarter is gonna be. weird.

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so this "ethics & legal requirements for research involving human subjects" course I'm doing for class rn hasn't figured out that you don't hyphenate "cisgender," and yet has still somehow heard of "trans broken arm syndrome" and wants to inform us about it being a source of distrust in medical professionals among some trans people. what's happening here....

#various factors in my life have coincided such that 95% of the content of this course isn't remotely new to me at all #(i.e. psychology undergrad & kink community) #but every so often it just throws a curveball without so much as blinking that has me going #'EXCUSE ME CAN WE BACK UP A SECOND AND UNPACK THAT??' #and that's approximately the entertainment keeping me going through it #(well that and the intonation of the person reading the voiceover whenever they say ''federal regulations'') #(because it's the exact same prosody as airplane safety voice 'federal regulations prohibit tampering/disabling/removing smoke detectors') #(so I guess that's now in my head the same way as grocery store checkout machine 'put your. PINK LADY APPLE. in the bag.') #.......well those tags certainly went off on a ramble didn't they #...OH YEAH RIGHT the holy shit unpack pls stuff has largely included like #''the police & justice department are exempt from these [previously described] regulations about ethical overview'' #YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THAT MATTER-OF-FACTLY AND THEN MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE HELLO #anyway. yeah. this is a time I'm having. #James liveblogs grad school #content is for other people

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any reasonable person ever: "the peer feedback form is not going to bite you"

me: "thank you but also due to the magic of ~overthinking~ the peer feedback form is ontologically incapable of not biting me"

#''is this about giving feedback to others or reading others' feedback to you?'' // ''yes.'' #''it's an important skill and a good thing to get practice in'' #(YES BUT what if I were simply not perceived and anything I said about anyone else went through a strict data anonymization procedure first #James liveblogs grad school

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istg every time I'm trying to wrap my head around legal rules and restrictions based on the concept of "(rights to) private property ownership of land", I feel like the stupidest person alive

#James liveblogs grad school #I can't. tell if this is something about the Concepts not clicking? #or the irl Application of said concepts being so capriciously applied based on kyriarchy logic that they just seem fake? #combination of both?? probably??? #all I know is I'm staring at these lecture notes trying to apply them to the assignment questions and going full mathlady.gif #the procedural stuff is fine! it makes sense even if I disagree with the cost-benefit analysis of a rule! #but this is just. bouncing off my brain like blaster bolts off a droideka shield no matter how many times I try to piece it together #content is for other people

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skill issue

#James liveblogs grad school #early zoning advocacy was fucking Wild and also I want to bite all of the people doing it #the (continuing!!!) obsession with the 'civic virtues' of single-family homeownership.... like ok thomas jefferson....... #also the previous paper I was reading was doing a comparison of US vs European zoning code development #and the whole Deal with the US trying to sneakily (not sneakily) legally mandate only letting racial minorities live in certain places #and apparently that not being a major motivating factor or innovation seen in euro countries' zoning at the time #to which I can just say Gee I Wonder If Anyone In Europe Might've Also Invented Mandatory Racial Residential Segregation Ever #Perhaps Even Before the US Got Around To It??? #Hmmm. Hmm I Wonder.

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planning theory introduction paper identifying "what is the justification for planning interventions?" as a significant question in the field, like......

I mean historically you're not wrong, people have been quite preoccupied with that. but do we fundamentally need to be? posing that question in the first place is already presupposing a certain type of background ideological framework. can we question that framework itself while we're at it? hello fish, meet water.

#truly the extent to which I don't get along with the Enlightenment though... #James liveblogs grad school