nothing will make you think “i have got to get weirder” more than finally feeling comfortable enough around other people to admit to interests of yours that you think make you a freak and a weirdo only to realize with a combination of embarrassment and relief that you’re like a normie to them
“sicko feedback loop” is a warrior’s bond stronger and more meaningful than marriage
Me on first day as the job interviewer: what are your greatest weaknesses. What are you weaknesses. What will make you break. Am i scaring you. What would you say is your greatest weakness. Aaaa! Anyway. Have you ever been attacked? What would you consider your greatest weakness.
never enough time in the day to do fuck all
there’s always time in the night to do fuck all
but watch out
“Don’t let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they’re bored and step on you when they’re done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.”— Unknown
btw most universities to my knowledge keep their reading lists behind access barriers (ie. only students enrolled at the institution on the course in question can see them) so i thought i’d just let you all know that durham university has all of its reading lists available online for free without needing student access. do with this information what you will.
the lists are downloadable btw - i haven’t gone through and checked every single one but the ones i’ve looked at seem to be at least
MIT’s courseware is available using OpenCourse Ware, completely downloadable without registration and can be remixed under very permissive licenses. some courses have full videos of lectures, notes, slides and problem sets, others may have only have syllabi, reading lists and exams. before edx and coursera were the big names in for profit online education we had khan academy and ocw.
these are unfortunately a little hit and miss when it comes to degree of organization and level of detail, so they all require a little patience and willingness to poke around:
Tau Beta Pi UC Berkeley syllabus archive
San Jose State University department of english and comparative literature syllabus archive
San Diego State University syllabus archive
University of Colorado Boulder syllabus archive
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill history department syllabus archive
University of North Carolina Greensboro history department syllabus archive
Florida Gulf Coast University course/syllabus archive
University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology department syllabus archive
Pratt Institute school of information syllabus archive
West Virginia University english department syllabus archive
tho tbh it terms of finding pure reading lists i’ve had much better luck just searching “[topic] + phd reading list” have founds lots and lots of juicy juicy reading lists that way. too many to post 😈
In a human-dominated world, an animal’s greatest survival trait is to be cute
“For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything — more than tired.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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