02 Jan 2009, 11:53 pm
Zane wrote:
sunshower wrote:
Zane wrote:
sunshower wrote:
I've always wanted to go to a university like Cambridge. Because all the smart people go to universities like that. If I did, I would definitely study Arts. I'm big on literature, reading and writing.
My beef with these things has always been you really don't need a degree to understand them. Call me concieded but I have been constantly disapointed by my teachers when it came to certain english classes. They always want to annalyze books to death and then do it some more. For once I would like a class that has a list of books and then tells me to read a minimum of three of them then write and essay or two about them. Depending ont he class, an example might be comparing the style of Hemmingway to the style of Thomas Wolfe or something like that. Or have a class room discussion on the reason a certain person can be influential as opposed to all of the card board cut out classes I feel I am constantly having to endure. I was also pretty irritated with journalism classes as well. These days it really sucks to see how far the bar has dropped on true jounalism. It is all about getting the "story" out first and I used quotes to emphasize my sarcasm on the subject. True jounalists these days seem to be freelancers who trek into places like south america only to get killed and hope to god thier articles get published...I know if a guy who was killed in Mexico City during the hostle take over... yeah ... but good luck with getting into an elitist school. Those f**** are expensive. 
Yeah, it's more of a vague wish than a reality for me really, just because I'd read so many books mentioning those universities, and call me an elitist but the intellectual academic snobbery appeals to me
I have felt that literature, philosophy, and psychology classes I've taken in my uni (especially philosophy) have expanded my mind, but I got too irritated with philosophy because while we could expand our minds through classroom discussion, for our essays we were expected to constrict our minds to figure out the one right interpretation of essays of famous philosophers, and my thinking has never really be mainstream, thus figuring out the "mainstream" interpretation was not always easy.
I loved reading the philosophy books though by Descartes etc. They posed some interesting questions.
As for your interest in the snobbery. Wait until you meet the najority who go there and you just might change your mind. I can not stand the people who are allowed unlimited access to things due to their familys wealth. That is exactly how we ended up with the problems we have in so many ways. If you ask me Uni should be free so long as you make the grade. I am an idealist of mass proportions though. In my opinion that is why I am now a comic. We much prefer the lighter side of things. My faovrite phylosopher was either Jesus or Socrates. It is a tie. The best part about Socrates is he is only known about through Plato but he is legeondary for his death. The fact he was killed because of other men's pride astounds me and better yet that he dies sticking to his guns. All he did was call people out on their sh**. Brilliant. Finding flaw by having other people see them in their own arguments. I mean common, brilliant. I got into so much trouble for doing the exact same thing. He was once rumored to be known by the oricles as the smartes man in all of Athens/Greece. Mearly because he admitted he knew nothing. Also a big fan of "I think therforeI am"
I was thinking more along the lines of intellectual snobbery, but oh well. Wealth and background are pretty irrelevant, not to mention stupid, but oh well. And I am still here. I seriously need to get off the net and do something hahaha.
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17 Jan 2009, 9:42 am
MissConstrue wrote:
ephemerella....
Here. Had to be gone for a while.
I was frustrated... there were a lot of things I didn't understand that I have thought about and figured out in the past few weeks. I needed to take some time off and think.
I think I can be more productive and more constructive in my comments and discussions now.
This thread has 24 pages and it will take me a few days to read it.
I'm floored at how many honest and meaningful comments that there have been posted. I honestly didn't deserve all the great input.
It will take me a while to digest this.
I won't be posting much now, anyways. My special interest focus is kind of like a window and it is very narrow and deep. I have started reading anatomy and physiology, and this in turn means I have to read medical biochemistry, biology and organic chemistry, which in turn means I have to review general chemistry. That will take me weeks, and I have no idea what my special interest "window" will move to once I start because I have never read medicine or biology before. I think the direction I'm going in is biophysics, but it's hard to know...
So while I might not reply to all of the meaningful and important posts to this thread while I was gone, I will read them all and reply eventually (I hope).
Thanks,
ephemerella
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