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Uni thread--what college do you go to and what's the literature department like?

>> No.12422184

Pic related is me btw, I go to BC and the lit department fucking sucks

>> No.12422186

Oh god he has airpods in oh god oh god oh god

>> No.12422194

I dont read. What the fuck is this book and why is it so popular? Make a comparison to it's equivelant in other mediums

>> No.12422202

>>12422097
I go to BU and it's nothing great.

>> No.12422209

>>12422194
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is to Literature Professors as Beethoven's 5th is to musicians

>> No.12422224

>>12422194
its a less edgy rick and morty before rick and morty was actually a thing, much like r&m
It's a half-baked nihilism dressed up as cynical realism and spouts the kind of lazy, autodidact, self-serving, personal philosophy of those weaned in the information-era: "Nothing really matters so do whatever you want" much like the very same douglas adams himself reveled in his own ironic detachment.

>> No.12422236

>>12422194
it's like if fidget spinners and rock n morty n ben shapiro had a child of pure EPIC

>> No.12422255

>>12422194
It is to literature what Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is to film.

>> No.12422263

>>12422255
?

>> No.12422264

>>12422097
Columbia and its glorious

>> No.12422282

>>12422186
Whats the deal with this? Why are wireless earbuds suddenly so popular?

>> No.12422309

>>12422264
Elaborate

>> No.12422311 [DELETED] 

>>12422224
>autodidact
Sounds like someone hates HGTHG baka :(

>> No.12422317

>>12422224
Well damn it sounds like SOMEONE hates HGTHG :(

>> No.12422321

>>12422282
Because tech companies want to start removing headphone jack so youlll buy new more expensive headphones

>> No.12422335

Stanford and idk I studied Classics.

>> No.12422345

Community College, seems like the best classes are related to technical fields not covered in four year colleges.

Once I finish this semester, I’m seriously considering leaving my girlfriend, cutting contact with what few friends I have, and moving to a cabin in the woods. I got fired from my job last night, and have no real way to pay for college anymore. Regardless- this constant slaving for 70-80 hours a week towards some kind of feeling of advancement in life, when in fact I’m stagnating and killing myself, seems pointless. A quiet wooden cabin, to sit by a fire every night and go for long walks in the morning, to have time to read and write, and no worries besides catching a fish or trapping a rabbit for dinner seems ideal.

>> No.12422499

>>12422282
viral/native marketing from Apple

>> No.12422736

>>12422345
ok edgelord

>> No.12422971

Went to UCCS. Took classes by experts in Joyce and Chaucer, rest of the lit department is hit or miss. One guy who does cold war lit and critical theory is really cool, but the lady who teaches shakespeare through an ecofeminist lens is pretty lame.

>> No.12423005

>>12422345
K there Thoreau

>> No.12423043

Pretty cool, one of them went to Tolkiens classes, but he's retired recently.

>> No.12423044

>>12422202
Boston? Transferred out fuck that place desu.

>> No.12423052

>>12422345
HAPPINESS ONLY REAL IF SHARED

>> No.12423056

>>12423044
i thought BU is supposed to be gr8 m8

>> No.12423055

>>12422255
kek

>> No.12423060

>>12422184
You go to BC?
Same, nice to see fellow eagles on here

>> No.12423062

>>12422097
University of Melbourne.

Don't know anything about the literature department, but my classes are mostly taught and attended by idpol lunatics, so I'm not optimistic.

>> No.12423085
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12423085

I go to Georgia Tech and we don't fucking have one
We have a "Literature, Media, and Communications" department but none of them give the least fraction of a fuck about books and when I've tried to ask the handful of students majoring in it what the hell they're doing they've all responded that they don't know

>> No.12423088

G C S U
which one of you put /lit/ graffiti in the bathroom stall?

>> No.12423096

>>12423088
I'm >>12423085 and I'm convinced GCSU is a hoax
I have never once met a live person that went there and I have no idea where it is
How much is George Soros paying you to pretend you're a student there, huh?

>> No.12423110

>>12422097
>>12422209
>>12422224
>>12422255
Jokes aside is this actually worth a read? I dont want to waste time on genre fiction unless its ubiquitously praised for being great novel

>> No.12423126
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>>12423096
From my experience so far, it's basically GSU but for wealthier burnouts and frat boys. It sounds like shit but the small school meme is real as far as professor interactions go and the school has a surprising amount of money to throw around, I don't want to post too much information because it would probably be very easy to dox anyone that goes here
also I do it for free

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12423149

its not good

>> No.12423208

>>12422194
It's funny and endlessly inventive, with a kind of gentle edginess that I suppose hasn't aged that well for everyone. As a kid, I read and reread the first few books until my parents prohibited me from reading them as they felt I was developing too caustic and sarcastic a sense of humor as a result.

(All of this excepts the last few books, which aren't very good.)

>> No.12423559

>>12422097
Stony Brook University.
Has a lot of Ivy league graduates who are excellent, but the non-Ivy ones are pretty lazy and whatever

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12423569

St. Mary's


I'm in law school, I have no idea what the undergrad side is like.

>> No.12423600

>>12422194
>I don't read
>/lit/ - Literature

>> No.12423616

>>12423569
ND student here, how hot are you?

>> No.12423642

>>12422309
Rich guys and hot girls

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>>12423616
Like an objective numerical standard? Like a 7 or 8. I need to get back into the gym routine again.
I pull enough girls to stave off loneliness, but I'm the local eccentric, so I scare off the normal girls.

>> No.12424029

>>12422097
to imagine that one day someone will eventually have sex with that face is incredible

>> No.12424056

i won't name my uni but the lectures are a mixture of feminist neologisms & opaque philosophizing

the best lectures are ones which alternate between lecturers & are basically just introductory statements about poets which will lead on to a better reading of them

the tutors vary

one of my tutors was an utter dunce but i think they just shoved him in to the first semester because they unload the trash there

another tutor was kind of okay for filosofia but maybe rambled on about marxist shite a bit too much

my best tutor was actually a foreigner

he knew a lot about historical context

>> No.12424765

>>12422209
But it isn't a rigorously conceived tetrapartite work in which progress is driven by continuous development of a single motivic fragment.

>> No.12424781

>>12423110
wubba luba dub dub!

>> No.12424826

>>12423110
yeah its actually pretty fun

>> No.12426093

Yale. I sucked Bloom's crusty ball-sweat until he came. It was worth it.