#intro to philosophy was a hard class (bc the prof i had i think) but one of the most important i ever took

[materialisnt]

turns out footnotes counted towards word cpunt, so autocaptions during office hours were wrong or i misread them, or theres some nuance to it, and ended up being abt 2k words over word limit. definitely should have double checked w prof in writing on that bc it wasnt in the rubric. they said theyll make an exception this time but still. oof.

they also need more time to explore the bibliography since a lot of it is unfamiliar. which is fair. they hadnt heard of edwina barvosa before and a huge bulk of our sources were from two transformative justice anthologies. not necessarily something likely to come up in a philosophy education (even if it should).

family member who peer reviewed it referred to it jokingly as a masters thesis proposal so like. definitely went a lil bit too hard for an intro to philosophy course. learning how to simplify and refine our arguments is probably going to be the biggest challenge outside of like. getting access to the classes we need in the first place.

v anxious for feedback lmao. weve got enough extra credit in this course that even if we got a 0 on this paper wed have an a in the class but like. just. oof. doing well here is important to us for so many reasons and i worked hard lmao.

ironically i think the scholarship essay i busted out this weekend had more traditional philosophical sources than this midterm, at least proportionally.

i wish this didnt feel so high stakes lmao. like this prof is working w their department and the humanities dean to make hybrid online/in person classes a possibility and has already shared some of our work w their colleagues who we need to like us in order to get access to the courses we need to get our degree.

[rue-bennett]

my obsession with grekk mythos pretty much all came from percy jackson, while a childrens book they are so great. If you want some older stories The Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey Chaucer are pretty good stories. ihad the same problem with reading in school. We read the hobbit in middle school but i hated it, but now its my favorite book. school makes it feel like work rather than fun. I appreciate gatsby and its good, but i think i would have a stronger attachment if i had read it in my free time

That makes sense!! I didn’t read PJO until I was like 15 (and I only read the first book...someday I’ll have to read them all bc it was just so good and my family is obsessed). Sometimes Children’s Lit is really great tbh, no shame at all! I’ll have to check them out, thank you! Awww that’s great!! I read The Fellowship of the Ring in 5th grade and I didn’t like it at all (not as bad as I hated Treasure Island the same year, but still), but I should go back and read LOTR. It’s amazing how different it feels to read a book on your own time vs. on a deadline for school and being told to think about it a certain way. Tbh reading books analytically in my freetime is fun, bc I can dissect and analyze with the skills I (sometimes begrudgingly) learned in school, but have my own take on it totally. I’m so glad you love The Hobbit now though, that’s great! I want to reread some other classics too, like Jane Eyre, because I also read that in school around age 10 or 11 and despised it lol. I’m also slowly working my way through a book of essays and excerpts from existentialist philosophers and authors (so far I’ve read bits from Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, etc.) and I love it. Definitely dense but worth it.

#intro to philosophy was a hard class (bc the prof i had i think) but one of the most important i ever took #asks #anonymous #book talk