Uni thread

[Anonymous No.18294192]

Which uni do you go to, and what are you currently reading?

[Anonymous No.18294463]

>college of staten Island
>tractatus logico philosophicus

[Anonymous No.18294474]

I don't know if I'll go to a good uni
Idk what to study

[Anonymous No.18294664]

Go to Columbia, reading Oliver Twist

[Anonymous No.18295059]

>>18294192
History/prelaw at a small rural liberal arts university in Canada
No Colours or Crest by Peter Kemp

[Anonymous No.18295067]

>>18294192
I go to pic related

The Brothers Karamazov + The Pillow Book

[Anonymous No.18295077]

>>18294192
Anyone at the University of Bristol who can tell what it's like?

[Anonymous No.18295089]

I go to UC Berkeley, reading Swann's Way and, as always, The Bible.

[Anonymous No.18295104]

Any Birmingham bros

[Anonymous No.18295105]

>>18295077
Full of hipsters, minorities and queer nonces

[Anonymous No.18295109]

>>18295105
You just described every university in the western world

[Anonymous No.18295113]

>>18295109
Not really. They're nothing compared to Bristol

[Anonymous No.18295119]

>>18295089
>Swann’s Way

Based, I’m reading Sodom & Gomorrah this weekend

[Anonymous No.18295160]

>>18294192
Harvard, Advaita Vedanta

[Anonymous No.18295274]

>Warwick
>Les revoltes des Anges

[Anonymous No.18295293]

>>18295274
>Warwick
>La Révolte des Anges
Why does google autocomplete keep messing up book titles?

[Anonymous No.18295306]

>>18295160
How’s Harvard?

[Anonymous No.18295310]

Trinity College, Dublin

Critique of pure reason and the cambridge companion. Also started reading berserk but not sure that counts as "reading"

[Anonymous No.18295323]

>>18295310
Are you enjoying Trinity College? I looked a little at it since you seem to have a good Osteology graduate program.

[Anonymous No.18295327]

University of Michigan, reading Being and Time

[Anonymous No.18295347]

>>18295327
Based Heidegger enjoyer

[Anonymous No.18295362]

>>18295323
I just finished my first year so I haven't really had a full experience yet as everything is online. It's a great college with fantastic resources and campus

It's also ground zero for militant leftism in Ireland, to the point where they had a staff member doxing students who were suspected of holding right-wing beliefs. I think that's about par for the course in most universities atm though

[Anonymous No.18295830]

>>18294192
>edinburgh
>samalio pardulus

[Anonymous No.18295846]

I dropped out. I read books to cope. I daydream of being matt damon in that one movie

[Anonymous No.18295849]

>>18295104
are you a long haired male in 3rd year? i think i may know you

[Anonymous No.18295852]

>>18295089
Read all of Remembrance in 2020. Definitely a satisfying and eye-opening experience, and Proust's prose is heartbreakingly lovely. You'll really enjoy it, I know.

Went to UTA (University of Texas at Arlington) and am currently just dabbling like the languorous dilettante I am in an anthology of English literature, so some Blake and Wordsworth right now.

[Anonymous No.18295866]

>>18295327
We'll have to meet up some time, bro. My professor was from U of M and is a Heideggerian fanatic. Older lady, but brilliant and assiduous.

[Anonymous No.18295869]

>>18295866
Did you hit it?

[Anonymous No.18295871]

Any Canadians here?

[Anonymous No.18295883]

>>18295869
That's quite vulgar, and no. Even if she had been within the realm of possibility of having sex with, I deeply respected her to the point that even thinking of her romantically would have sullied her aura and the wisdom she imparted to me.

[Anonymous No.18295892]

Anyone here at Durham or Exeter? I’m deciding which one I want to go to. How pozzed are they? I went to a taster session for a Politics class and the guy was going on about the alt-right rabbit hole of Jordan Peterson lmao

>>18295113
My mate is first year at Bristol and he tells me that everyone in Bristol is English and there aren’t many foreigners at all. Also he said it’s just full of private school poshos who drop pills.

[Anonymous No.18295899]

>>18295883
faggot

[Anonymous No.18295910]

>>18295899
Dear God, it's like you have to enunciate each particular syllable of your post to get a point across: She. Was. In. Her. 80s. Probably. Jesus Christ.

[Anonymous No.18295912]

>>18295892
I'm assuming he's in one of the Stoke Bishop accommodations?

[Anonymous No.18295914]

Pic rel

Revolt against the modern world

[Anonymous No.18295920]

>>18295910
no you type like a faggot and it makes me dislike you

[Anonymous No.18295921]

>>18295910
He (and I) are calling you a faggot due to how pretentious you sound

[Anonymous No.18295931]

>>18295849
Nah bro I'm going there this year

[Anonymous No.18295938]

>>18294192
Swarthmore College
Brothers K

[Anonymous No.18295953]

Community college
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans

[Anonymous No.18295956]

>>18295920
>>18295921
I can't quite help the way I type, but here goes nothing, I guess:

yeah bro i feel, yeah i woulda hit that pussy hard but she was like, in her 80s, yo. fuck man, i miss my girlfriend's pussy and boobs

[Anonymous No.18295975]

>>18295956
>fuck man, i miss my girlfriend's pussy and boobs
They were nothing special but I miss them anyway. I miss doing all those things to her body.
Dont really miss her as a person though. In hindsight she was not pleasant. Very dumb, no thoughts of her own.

[Anonymous No.18295983]

>>18295866
Oh man that's great! I'm coming in this fall as a PhD student (not in philosophy). I still have quite a bit of the book left to read but I have some questions from a reading of Michael Watts' introductory book on Heidegger. It'll be nice to have a professor to discuss it with.

[Anonymous No.18295989]

>>18295975
That's literally women in general
They exist exclusively for their bodily organs

[Anonymous No.18295996]

Uppsala university.
De agri cultura by Cato the elder.

[Anonymous No.18295998]

>>18295956
No one asked. Kill yourself brain damaged low iq incel.

Can the tranny jannies do their fucking job for once and move this shit thread to /soc/

[Anonymous No.18296003]

>>18295306
Ask his parents, they paid for him to get in.

[Anonymous No.18296007]

>>18295989
She was a special kind of dumb. Literally no personality. Whatever her best friend liked would become her absolute favorite thing and would claim to always have liked it. Then when her best friend dropped the interest she would pretend that she never liked it at all. It used to really piss me off

[Anonymous No.18296012]

>>18295975
>I miss doing all those things to her body
Really good way to put it. She wasn't at all interesting personality-wise, just your typical SJW trying to justify her purpose in life by sticking to a cause she blindly followed, but her body was beautiful. Unfortunately, like you said, she was just really unpleasant, a hassle, and someone who basically kept me a secret from her parents for the time we were together just so she could use me as a toy and as something to show off in the vein of conspicuous consumption or some such tawdry shit. Either way, good riddance.
>>18295983
That's brilliant, man! Let me know how it goes, and good luck to you with that endeavor. I wish you could've met my professor, as she was wonderfully obsessed with all things Heidegger, but I'm sure you'll find some good pumpkins there.
>>18295998
You're a fascinating creature of flesh and breath. Where do you get off talking that way, and how are you doing?

[Anonymous No.18296041]

>>18296012
My wet hole wasnt that nasty. I think she actually loved me as much as an adolescent is capable of loving. Spent more time with her family than my own. I guess I shouldnt be such a dick about it. She wasn't that bad. although she later did turn into an sjw which is tragic. I havent seen her in many years but I suspect college was not good to her

[Anonymous No.18296118]

>>18296041
I feel that man. It really does come down to a matter of perspective. Even I could say mine wasn't the worst, since I believe she really did love me in her best and most romantic moments, but I think her adolescence coupled with her issues with self-confidence and self-worth just morphed her into someone who cared more about the "idea" of having a boyfriend than actually supporting and appreciating the person "filling in" that role. We were young and stupid, I guess, but something tells me I cared and did more for her than she for me, but it's whatever.

[Anonymous No.18296132]

>>18296118
>something tells me I cared and did more for her than she for me, but it's whatever.

[Anonymous No.18296149]

community college in saint paul

Complete essays of Montaigne

[Anonymous No.18296173]

>>18295989
You really feel this way? Your sisters/mother too? Aren’t there any exceptions

[Anonymous No.18296216]

>>18296173
My mom is a whore

[Anonymous No.18296220]

>>18296216
And you couldn't even get a piece if you begged for it.

[Anonymous No.18296225]

Hebrew university

Empire of the Sun

[Anonymous No.18296228]

>>18296220
Well yeah she's my mom. Thats gross

[Anonymous No.18296240]

>>18296228
filtered

[Anonymous No.18296256]

>>18296216
That’s unfortunate. Single mom too?

[Anonymous No.18296262]

>>18296256
Nah. Dad got custody.

[Anonymous No.18296266]

>>18295871
University of Toronto here, I'm reading Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.18296267]

>>18295892
My mates a compsci at Durham. He says its decent. It thinks its Oxbridge when it isn't though

[Anonymous No.18296284]

NTNU NEGERE HVEM OPPE

[Anonymous No.18296292]

>>18296262
Hey at least you have a father. He’s a good man for taking care of you.

[Anonymous No.18296296]

>>18295892
Every UK university is pozzed. If not the profs, then the administration and the students for sure. Best you can hope is a degree in a non-humanities field while taking carefully handpicked philosophy classes and joining a few societies to find the minority of people who aren't idiots.

[Anonymous No.18296318]

>>18296296
So is every US university, especially the state-tier ones. Went to one in Texas, one of the strangest and worst experiences of my life, but I find it now to have been a crucible through which I was harshly formed and inured to the stupidity of academic politics.

[Anonymous No.18296328]

>>18296296
every single morning of every single day i wake up and fervently thank whatever dreadful god or deity put me on this earth that i was not born in the anglosphere

[Anonymous No.18296435]

>>18296318
USA is the reason why UK is this bad. Same language so "culture" trickled down.

>>18296328
If u live in western or central europe, anglosphere will soon come to u
I predict Italy will be the last to fall (except for easter europe and balcans ofc)

[Anonymous No.18296451]

>>18296435
ackshually if you research the origins of this undercurrent it originated at the university of toronto

[Anonymous No.18296456]

>>18295956
I found it funny anon loool

[Anonymous No.18296468]

>Dalhousie University
>Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett

[Anonymous No.18296513]

>>18296451
ackshually if you research the origins of this undercurrent it originated at the university of toronto

explain this I must know what happened to Canada.

[Anonymous No.18296518]

>>18294192
Indiana University
I could have graduated this spring, but I decided to postpone it a year so I could take painting and fencing classes to finish off my requirements.
In the meantime, I’m studying tech shit so I can get a good job

[Anonymous No.18296522]

>>18295883
Insufferable faggot

[Anonymous No.18296527]

>>18295956
>I can't quite help the way I type
Yes you can, you pretentious faggot

[Anonymous No.18296532]

>>18296522
Nice dubs, and I appreciate it. I quite like the moniker of a bundle of sticks used for fire and some such utility. Let's talk about it over a couple of beers, yeah?

[Anonymous No.18296538]

>>18296527
Oh, a twofer! I might end up just typing like this forever just to make you seethe

naw man fr fr tho, i got you. i miss that pussy

[Anonymous No.18296540]

>>18294192
The school of life, history of the conquest of meme-xico.

[Anonymous No.18296552]

>>18294192
Wageningen University.
The world as will and representation, Big debt crisis and Imperium

[Anonymous No.18296555]

>>18296532
>>18296538
>>18295883
When you just discovered that your MacBook mommy and daddy bought you has a thesaurus app and you replace every other word for everything you type
kys

[Anonymous No.18296582]

>>18296555
Why do you assume I use a thesaurus app and not that I've been reading pretty actively for the past couple of years hard and challenging literature? Do you really think I waste the time looking up synonymous alternatives to simple words just to offer rebuttals to posts on a Thai basket-weaving forum?

I do appreciate the sentiment, though.

[Anonymous No.18296583]

>>18296513
Canadians happened anon.

[Anonymous No.18296616]

>>18296582
>synonymous alternatives

[Anonymous No.18296618]

>>18296555
>mommy and daddy bought you
Sorry your parents were incapable of providing for you anon

[Anonymous No.18296624]

>>18296618
>>synonymous alternatives

[Anonymous No.18296629]

>>18295104

brummies unite

[Anonymous No.18296633]

>>18296624
Different anon

[Anonymous No.18296639]

>>18295327
undergrad or grad

[Anonymous No.18296642]

>>18296616
I was going out on a limb there. I do like the polysyllabic and iambic formation of it: "syNONyMOUS alTERnaTIVES."
>>18296624
I didn't write that. Also shut the fuck up for once.

[Anonymous No.18296653]

>>18296642
>synonymous alternatives

[Anonymous No.18296661]

>>18296653
Dude, we get it. Your mommy didn't read to you when you were younger. Just shut the fucking fuck up and start reading instead of complaining about how many words I know.

[Anonymous No.18296681]

>>18296661
>synonymous alternatives

[Anonymous No.18296691]

>>18296681
Shut the actual fuck up, though, for real. No one gives a shit that I said that besides you. Literally no one. It was a turn of phrase and no one fucking cares.

[Anonymous No.18296748]

>>18296552
How are the tremors fellow dutchfag?
From the confederacy of faggots established in the formerly known 'Golden Age' at the Univerisity of Amsterdam.
reading: Steppenwolf, Surveiller et punir, Histoire de ma vie de Giacomo de Casanova and a self-help book on OCD.

[Anonymous No.18296754]

Has anyone done or is doing a Ph.D. or DPhil in the UK and would like to share some of his experience?
The system seems quite different compared to what I know in Germany. I'm interested in the humanities, which is also very different from postgraduate studies in the STEM fields

[Anonymous No.18296789]

>>18296691
>It was a turn of phrase and no one fucking cares
>synonymous alternatives

[Anonymous No.18296795]

>>18296789
Okay, you got me. Please stop bringing it up now.

[Anonymous No.18296796]

I graduated from Penn State. No, not Penn. Penn State.

[Anonymous No.18296801]

>>18296748
>Histoire de ma vie de Giacomo de Casanova
Not that anon but extremely patrician.

[Anonymous No.18296812]

>>18294192
uni of british columbia war and peace

[Anonymous No.18296837]

>>18296796
I hate Penn state fags

[Anonymous No.18296852]

>>18296754
Want to do a PhD but currently graduate in UK. Its easier if you are already in the system. Any particular uni you are looking at?

[Anonymous No.18296900]

>>18296837
Sorry to hear...

Temple or Pittsburgh?

[Anonymous No.18296982]

>>18296900
I'm sure you're a good one since you are posting here, but most of Penn State students are awful. I went to Temple for undergrad so it wasn't much better, but at least no one had an pretensions about what our school was.

[Anonymous No.18296985]

Goethe University, Frankfurt.
>currently reading
Blackshirts and reds by michael parenti
as i lay dying by faulkner
les fleurs du mal by baudelaire
though to be honest I haven't read much lately. Been feeling kind of tired. Nothing motivates me

[Anonymous No.18297012]

>>18296748

ook FGw?

[Anonymous No.18297039]

>>18294192
HSE, Moscow.
>reading
Continental Divide - Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos, Peter E. Gordon

[Anonymous No.18297107]

ucl - kant critique

[Anonymous No.18297128]

>>18297012
Yup

[Anonymous No.18297142]

>>18296982
I can’t say I have any particular pretensions or that I think my school experience was particularly good or even worth it. In retrospect, I might’ve gone to Temple to be in the city if nothing else.

[Anonymous No.18297148]

>>18296982
Are you in Philadelphia still?

[Anonymous No.18297153]

>>18296852
it's propably ridiculous, but besides Oxford it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble in my personal situation (finance; age, I'm 27 already; etc).
What I'm really interested in is, wether it actually IS worth it (for staying in academia). Are the contacts and networks you can get to know that valuable? Is the advisory really good at helping you?
Besides I'm of course wondering if being too old (28 when finishing two Masters-degrees) is an issue.

[Anonymous No.18297165]

>>18296985
Grüne Soße and there you go again.
What are your subjects?

>>18294192
Stuttgart/Tübingen
Lucien Febvre's biography of Marin Luther, after finishing Nabokov's Lolita yesterday

[Anonymous No.18297172]

>>18297128

Lekker man! Hoop alleen wel dat je een Research Master doet want anders zal het niveau deprimerend laag zijn met al die expats..

[Anonymous No.18297175]

Berklee College of Music
The Sonic Episteme and The Intelligent Investor

[Anonymous No.18297208]

>>18297175
>The Intelligent Investor
Are you a fellow musicologist?

are you enjoying The Sonic Episteme? I'm not sure (read: opposed to) Beyonce questioning the (neoliberal) capitalist order at all; even strengthening it by using seperative ideas of gender roles and discrimination in general. Also heavily relying on the conventional imagery - thus her success. But thats just considering the abstract, havn't read the book

[Anonymous No.18297218]

>>18297153
I will be 30 when finishing my Masters, and around 33 for the PhD. Since the education is free but the country is still dirt poor, why chase false idols if you gonna be poor anyway in any job, might as well delve into the humanities.
Does your life in Britain give you any better option for your mid life crisis?

[Anonymous No.18297238]

>>18297165
>what are your subjects
philosophy as a major and political science as a minor.
>grüne soße and there you go again
what?

[Anonymous No.18297245]

>>18297208
I haven’t gotten to the Beyoncé argument. I’m a composer. I like a lot of the reflections and arguments she brings up, really makes me see pop music in a different light. She’s also very based on identity politics which I’m not that into but always open minded to see where the point lies, when she talks about Taylor Swift I agree with most of what she says for example. The Sonic analogies to neoliberal market and ontology are reasonable. I just finished chapter 1 so I’m not really knowledgeable on the book yet. Would recommend it from what I’ve read so far.

[Anonymous No.18297268]

>>18296296
Suggestions for societies?

[Anonymous No.18297278]

>>18296582
>synonymous alternatives
Kek are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.18297280]

>>18297218
I'm not living in the UK, but the education is free in my country anyway. Also there was, pre 2000, a tradition for studying a good while in the humanities before graduating - which in my opinion makes a lot of sense. I can't imagine doing a phd with 26 after not having dived deep in the broadness of your subject.
But things have changed, and the 'market', including the academic, wants rather than needs cheap labor. And thats the way to produce cheap academics doing cheap stuff; I guess.

[Anonymous No.18297353]

>>18297153
The way they follow you at Oxford is great. I mean, I’m 26 and finishing my Graduate degree this year to hopefully move on to a PhD. Absolutely no reason to have a midlife crisis in regards to age as many enter Academia in their mid 30s with finished degrees. It takes a lot of time, and truly is an investment if you love what you do. I would recommend doing your PhD at a top 25 global uni if you study in the humanities though.

[Anonymous No.18297382]

>>18294192
>sub 15% acceptance rate Uni
>voices from chernobyl
pretty interesting read

[Anonymous No.18297406]

I wonder I am the only /lit/ person on my whole campus?
CU boulder

[Anonymous No.18297446]

>>18297353
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the importance for academic carreers of the (i) reputation of the institution (ii) reputation of your supervisor (iii) personal relation to your supervisor (iv) opportunities for instruction during the phd.
The most important thing is your academic output, publish-or-perish-wise, that's for sure. But for the other tings I don't see myself scoring the ace and getting all things top-notch; so I am thinking (way too much) about the best priority of those points.
In my case I'm not inside one of the top unis; just spend some time studying my subject at one of the lower end of the top25 in my field, but without any degree. Doing a phd in my current institution is very possible for me, but it's not listed in any ranking and a rather small one. And that's propably the thing that concerns me the most, because besides the possible supervisor there won't be much input by colleagues at all.

[Anonymous No.18297459]

>>18295362
>I think that's about par for the course in most universities atm though
get off the internet and out of your bubble

[Anonymous No.18297469]

>>18297148
Sometimes yes, why you want to be friends?

[Anonymous No.18297476]

>>18296555
bro I'm not that anon, but are you serious? If you think you need a thesaurus to write like that, then you have bigger issues than what someone's mummy and daddy bought for them

[Anonymous No.18297480]

>>18297382
>going by acceptance rate and not name
brown(university)fag detected

[Anonymous No.18297518]

>>18296985
>Blackshirts and reds by michael parenti
how is this?

[Anonymous No.18297597]

International Christian University Tokyo

Blood Meridian and A Moveable Feast

[Anonymous No.18297605]

>>18297476
Cope, faggot.

[Anonymous No.18297608]

>>18297605
with what exactly?

[Anonymous No.18297620]

>>18297446
Well I had a professor who thought very well and was from a 100 University globally, when I was an undergraduate. Publishing is most important of course, but going to a very high ranked uni certainly helps, but its not the end of the world if you dont, it just is a little harder. So for example, if you and an Oxford taught guy face each other in an application, are in the same field and have published the same amount, the Oxford guy is prioritized.

[Anonymous No.18297650]

University of Leeds

Endgame by Derrick Jensen.

[Anonymous No.18297655]

>>18294192
University of Nottingham

Sun & Steel by Mishima

[Anonymous No.18297671]

>>18297446
What are you studying exactly?

[Anonymous No.18297677]

>>18297650
luv leeds

[Anonymous No.18297700]

>>18297677
Aye it's not too bad, Bradford works as a containment zone, keeps all the shit out.

[Anonymous No.18297716]

>>18297671
(historical) musicology, so not a field many people and other fields at the moment seem to be very interested in. At least that's what it looks like considering the interdisciplinary pojects I know, or more precisely don't know, of.

[Anonymous No.18297765]

>>18297518
pretty good. Parenti is a commie so it's obviously biased (though what history books are not biased?) but imo he gives a pretty good account on the common misconceptions of communist and fascist regimes, how capitalists teamed up with fascists to eliminate communists, leftist anti-communism and the whole debate culture about these topics in general. It's straight forward and doesn't require any deep knowledge of marxism so I think it's a great entry point for people who may identify as leftists but are unsure regarding the history of communism.

[Anonymous No.18297773]

UCLA, I don’t read, moving pictures make brain feel better :)

[Anonymous No.18297793]

University of Illinois
Heart of Darkness

[Anonymous No.18297841]

I’m going to community college. My parents are making me go if I want to keep getting my trust fund. It sucks but I get mad pussy

[Anonymous No.18297853]

University of Florida

After virtue
Thucydides

[Anonymous No.18297862]

>>18297716
Always a field that has interested but I’ve never been able to penetrate. Do you have any musicology book recommendation for someone completely new to it all? I would love to learn more.
Also, doesn’t Vienna have quite a good program?

[Anonymous No.18297866]

>>18297765
>though what history books are not biased?)
Good ones.

[Anonymous No.18297879]

>>18297459
Have you even been on a uni campus in the last couple of years? get out of your own bubble.

[Anonymous No.18297889]

>>18297866
Name some completely non biased examples.

[Anonymous No.18297899]

>>18297218
Zeno of Citium, when he heard that the only ship he had left was sunk by an unmerciful tempest, with all the rich cargo that was in her, brake out into this exclamation: Fortune, I applaud thy contrivance, who by this means hast reduced me to a threadbare cloak and the piazza of the Stoics.

[Anonymous No.18297909]

>>18295996
Vad studerar du, chief?

[Anonymous No.18297953]

>>18297889
Early Medieval Art by Nees
Early Medieval Architecture by Stalley
Graphic Signs of Identity, Faith, and Power in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Garipzanov, Goodson and Maguire
The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books : From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, by Delorez

[Anonymous No.18297958]

>>18297862
Can you read german (which would be very great)? And do you want it to be more accessible or on a respectible academic level? And is there any period/genre that interests you more than others? I hope to give you a better suggestion with this information.
On a side note I just was really surprised how few musicological (or at least non-fiction) books about music itself I have read. Many articles, and books on history or sociology. Quite unsettling for me

[Anonymous No.18297968]

>>18295293
>Warwick
>Sartor Resartus
>Anathemas and Admirations

[Anonymous No.18297970]

I left academia in 2014.

I miss it sometimes.

[Anonymous No.18297973]

>>18297958
I can read some German as I am Scandinavian, but not fully. Something more accessible would be good for starters, but I wouldn’t be against academic either depending on how much prerequisite knowledge is expected. I am most interested in Medieval music but I realize how scant that area is, so I am open to any period, even modern, as long as I get to learn some basics which can hopefully give me some tools to dive deeper.

[Anonymous No.18297977]

MIT
On the Jews and Their Lies

[Anonymous No.18298003]

>>18297953
Thanks for the recommendations, I'm still sure somewhere in each text there's at least a single sentence in which you could argue has some bias.

[Anonymous No.18298030]

>>18297977
MIT, On China

[Anonymous No.18298086]

Just graduated from Carnegie Mellon, reading Libra by Don DeLillo

[Anonymous No.18298093]

>>18297853
Read his older essay and lecture collections as well. Against the Self-Images of the Age and The Religious Significance of Atheism are fantastic, and Herbert Marcuse: An Exposition and a Polemic is genuinely incisive criticism of the sort that you rarely see.

[Anonymous No.18298141]

>>18298030
How’s MIT?

[Anonymous No.18298173]

>>18297973
For a overview of music history (with lots of pictures and no preriquisite historical knowledge) I suggest:
Burkholder et al. - A History of Western Music
Noteworthy is also Taruskin - Oxford History of Western Music. But it is very much to read, and I'm not sure that the overview is the most interesting part. But it might be.

Propably very accessible, though I have not read it yet. It's less than 150 pages, the author is provoking, but sometimes a bit too flexible with sources for my taste:
Nicholas Cook - Music. A Very Short Introduction.

A bit aged and frowned upon in German academia, but an interesting read:
Eggebrecht - Musikgeschichte des Abendlandes.
His prose is a bit old, so the sentences are sometimes hard to understand. But he focuses very much on the early and high (but not the late/rennaissance) middle-age period in this overview.

For a history of the way to write music I can very much suggest:
Schmid - Notationskunde.
He really draws interesting conclusions concerning the interdependency of writing and composing (and to a lesser degree performing) music. Sometimes just a little bit dry and sometimes he might have elaborated for a few sentences more to reduce the time to understand the place he is pointing out, but still overall a very rewarding read. This ist already entry-level academia, just for the record.

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For some overview (or sum up of current discourses) of the historical musicology I can strongly suggest:
Callella et al. (eds.) - Historische Musikwissenschaft.
(incidentially he is professor in Vienna). This is a collection of essays by some of the most reputated people in ther respective fields of musicology. I highly enjoyed reading the essays by Kaden, Hinrichsen and Strohm. This is actual academic writing and thus for non-native speakers might be hard. But the insights are very elucidating - once you know the basics of music.

With some post-structuralistic view on musical authorship:
Calella - Musikalische Autorschaft.
(I did just read the introduction, if I remember it correctly. But highly elucidating aswell)

A introduction to music analysis, propably requiring knowledge in music history and reading music:
Kühn - Analyse lernen
Have not read it, and propably won't very soon, but I have heard good things about it.

[Anonymous No.18298177]

>>18297879
My first uni had communists everywhere. They would prevent you from getting into classes and would always have endless fucking petitions they wanted people to sign.
My second uni is the total opposite. No communists at all. There is a political debating club, but I never see student protests or anything like that. In fact, if I were to ask the average student, they would probably say something like "what's communism?'.

[Anonymous No.18298179]

>>18298093
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.18298181]

>>18295327
>>18296639
hello Michigan bros, law school here

[Anonymous No.18298185]

>>18297973
Especially for medieval music I highly recommend the writings by Reinhard Strohm. He is a tremendously erudite and intelligent academic and writes quite accessible (and most of the time in english aswell):
Strohm - Music in Late Medieval Bruges
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For learning to read music if you can't already a quick course online or on youtube will serve best, I'm afraid...

Also, if you are interested in medieval (cultural) studies, I can recommend:
de Hamel - Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts.
It is not academic writing, but one of the few non-fiction books I highly enjoyed reading and offering access to medieval manuscript culture. Also including the filler narratives, which I usually hate. And it has a lot of pictures which I'm not ashamed of having liked a lot.

I propably have forgotten the best suggestions and you have to keep in mind that I haven't read that many books on musicology. So better research my suggestions; have a look in a pdf first or check it out in a library before buying.

[Anonymous No.18298199]

>>18297953
Even rationalism is a bias.

[Anonymous No.18298200]

>>18294192
University of Queensland, Aus
For my philo course, reading Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty)
We've also done Sartre, Fanon and Beauvoir. Its a first year intro to philo course.

[Anonymous No.18298223]

>>18298173
Wow anon, thanks for the extremely comprehensive post! This is a huge help in getting me started so thanks a lot, I mean it. Always wanted to read about this but now I finally have a foundation on which to work on.
Funny that one of the professors are from Vienna. Just goes to show!

[Anonymous No.18298226]

University of Wollongong
Hamilton's Curse by Thomas DiLorenzo
Propaganda by Jacques Ellul

[Anonymous No.18298239]

>>18298141
They gave me a research project and I had to figure out halfway though that I was making hunter/killer drones for the DOD. Put me off the whole thing a bit

[Anonymous No.18298248]

>>18298239
Sounds extremely based if you ask me!

[Anonymous No.18298261]

>>18298239
Could you refuse continue out of ethical concerns if you really wanted to?

[Anonymous No.18298291]

>>18296555
embarrassing post and not worthy of those digits

[Anonymous No.18298299]

Cambridge
Protagoras

[Anonymous No.18298301]

>>18295938
ΨΑΗΩΕΗ/ΨΑΗωΕΗ = Psaēōeē, not Yahweh

[Anonymous No.18298314]

Graduated from Purdue University four years ago, but last book I read was the Narnia series about 6 months ago.

[Anonymous No.18298320]

>>18298086
still in p-burgh?

[Anonymous No.18298326]

>>18298248
thanks

>>18298261
of course. there’s no gun to my head, but a good chunk of my field is funded by the US military and also I need recommendations for grad school, and have somewhat locked myself into this track at the expense of others. that’s how this works, apparently - sunk cost fallacy and all that. if i’m being honest i don’t have strong feelings about it at all, but it’s fun to act like i’m some hardened killer with some people and like i’m some pitiable victim with others. i just want to hear how they react

[Anonymous No.18298398]

>>18298326
well, and see how the role fits me

[Anonymous No.18298585]

>>18298239
>>18298326
For the sake of your soul read Kaczynski and drop out bugman

[Anonymous No.18298612]

UW, reading nothing because I'm tired and busy

[Anonymous No.18298624]

>>18295938
Yo another swattie—what are you studying

Also, grundrisse and the melancholy science

[Anonymous No.18298643]

>>18298585
i already read him. maybe you should engage in realpolitik instead

[Anonymous No.18298709]

>>18294192
Arizona state.
The Bastiat Colllection

[Anonymous No.18298818]

>>18298291
Keep coping, faggot

[Anonymous No.18298823]

>>18298181
Lmaooo

[Anonymous No.18298831]

>>18298185
Awesome! I will add these to the list. Look extremely fascinating. Thanks a lot, anon.

[Anonymous No.18298845]

>>18298199
True enough but I find rationalism to be a better bias than blatant dishonesty like seen in many pop-history books. See Nixie’s The Darkening Age for a «history» book written by a journalist with the most shoddy research ever done to man.

[Anonymous No.18298903]

>>18294192
University of Oregon
Science and Sanity

[Anonymous No.18298975]

>>18298239
>tfw majored in aerospace engineering because "hurr durr I like planes and space"
>tfw realized too late in my degree that the only jobs I'll be able to get is with the military industrial complex
>got a job in patent law to escape the MIC and develop writing skills
>realized six months into this job that working at an American law firm is the worst thing you do if you value any life outside of wageslaving
>one year in and I'm on the verge of getting fired for not producing enough billable hours (I refuse to overwork myself)

Majoring in STEM was a mistake. I don't even know what to do anymore. Somedays I just want to quit and just live a bohemian lifestyle off my savings. I'm too much of a pussy to do that, though.

On another note, enjoy your college days anons. I sorely miss the days of just fucking around with my friends, getting high and going to coffee shops to study or read. College stress sucks, but wageslave drudgery is worse.

[Anonymous No.18299041]

Any community college chads here?

[Anonymous No.18299046]

>>18296639
International PhD student, will be there in August

[Anonymous No.18299060]

University at buffalo
Without feathers - woody allen

[Anonymous No.18299080]

Cornell
Gravity's Rainbow
no jokin'
>>18296789
god this is hilarious for some reason

[Anonymous No.18299145]

>>18298975

[Anonymous No.18299174]

>>18298975
even if you go to work in the MIC, I wonder how much aerospace work you could possibly do. it seems like so much fun, thinking about navier stokes, learning all these cool emergent fluid dynamics phenomena, but ultimately you might end up on CAD updating a model for some piping in the propulsion or something.
modernity really blows. people used to have religious obsession with the stars. now cosmology is solved and no one gives a shit

[Anonymous No.18299179]

Who the fuck goes to Uni in current year LOL

[Anonymous No.18299202]

>>18299179
It is a prettty good experience. Assuming you are not paying for it.

[Anonymous No.18299249]

Boston College, The cantos

[Anonymous No.18299311]

>>18299249
take a class with kreeft and become kreeftpilled

[Anonymous No.18299338]

>>18295938
did u go to high school in the Main Line?

[Anonymous No.18299347]

>>18294192
>tfw born in a third world shithole
>tfw misses my chance to the ideal, rose colored campus years with the love of my life in a beautiful university

[Anonymous No.18299370]

>>18299347
which shithole?

[Anonymous No.18299381]

>>18295852
Which translation of Proust did you read

[Anonymous No.18299427]

>>18298643
>polishing the gun that will be used to put you down
>realpolitik

[Anonymous No.18299483]

>>18299370
philippines

[Anonymous No.18299485]

>>18299080
I went to Cornell for undergrad. Miss the campus so much. Willard Straight was so comfy for reading and writing.
Take Tom Hills medieval classes or Schwarz' modernism, both great profs.

Im at Columbia for grad school

[Anonymous No.18299566]

Uchicago undergrad, Swann's Way

[Anonymous No.18299569]

>>18299174
At this point, I'll be happy with a relatively chill 9–5 that pays decently enough to live a middle class life. Fucking around with CAD models sounds like a dream compared to busting my ass to help big corporations hoard intellectual property en masse. If you think the engineering profession is fucked, you have no idea how shitty is to practice law (at least in America; I think Euros have way more reasonable work-life balances).

[Anonymous No.18299597]

>>18294192
nyu (hell)
anatomy of criticism

[Anonymous No.18300441]

>>18294192
University of Melbourne law student. Reading Swann's way and now Celine's journey to end of night.

[Anonymous No.18300461]

>>18294192
I never even graduated high school. Formal education is overrated, become an autodidact.

[Anonymous No.18300510]

>>18299597
Why is NYU hell? I heard it was good

[Anonymous No.18300529]

>>18299483
>>18297039
>>18295310
Third world, unite!

[Anonymous No.18300544]

>>18297107
In London? Same, but I'm one exam away from graduating.

[Anonymous No.18300681]

>>18300544
Is most of UCL composed of Oxbridge rejects?

[Anonymous No.18300694]

>>18300681
Everything in the top 25 are Oxbridge rejects.
I rationalise my rejection by saying Oxbridge is plagued by Liberal faggots anyway

[Anonymous No.18300712]

>>18297107
>>18300544
>>18300681
>>18300694
London /lit/ meetup when?

[Anonymous No.18300722]

>>18296267
i'm a compsci at durham
what year is your mate in?

[Anonymous No.18300727]

>>18300681
Yes. Same with Durham, Warwick, St Andrews. All top 10 are Oxbridge rejects.

[Anonymous No.18300730]

>>18298299
Good day fellow Cantabrigian.

Kokoro

[Anonymous No.18300740]

>>18300727
makes me ponder sometimes
if i'm someone who got rejected from oxford despite getting 4 A*s, would I have been qualified to get into an ivy if i were american
who knows. am at fucking edinbugh now and its shit

[Anonymous No.18300749]

>>18300740
Probably. the American Equivalent of A-Levels are barely as difficult as AS.

[Anonymous No.18300774]

>>18294192
Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami

[Anonymous No.18300775]

>>18298975
Is university in America just a kindergarten for adults? When I was an undergraduate, almost all of my time was spent in front of books.

[Anonymous No.18300838]

>>18295996
Baserat, pluggar du latin?

[Anonymous No.18300845]

>>18300775
I'd rather my Uni was modelled after an American college. I'm burned out not even a year into my program, I have 6 essays and 1 ~40-page thesis to deliver in 1 month, and I can fuck up just 1 (one) of them to not get expelled.

[Anonymous No.18300885]

>>18300740
Definitely. But grades are not everything at Oxbridge, simply a minimum criteria before they assess your writings etc.

[Anonymous No.18300891]

>>18300845
What the hell did you do to actually get expelled if you fuck up once. Laziness?

[Anonymous No.18300917]

>>18300845
I'm American and got my BA there, but now I'm in grad school abroad. I will say a lot of the people I work with went through programs similar to yours. They seem to be able to produce a large number of papers quickly, but there's no real analysis and are often failing grade papers in my opinion. I think the American system (at least in the humanities) really teaches you to narrow down your interest and go in depth.

Also non-native English speakers that go through English-based programs in non-English speaking countries learn how to write papers and make arguments all wrong. But that's a separate issue.

[Anonymous No.18300987]

>>18300917
Tell me about that separate issue

[Anonymous No.18300991]

I got into oxford for forever will feel inferior for having been born anglophone

[Anonymous No.18301013]

>>18300681
OP here and yeah but it's not so much of a stress since anyone going further into academia 1. can get into an Oxbridge masters and 2. realises that Oxbridge isn't where all the more fun criticism happens

>>18300712
tempting but i'm too plagued by the pictures of /fa/ meetups

[Anonymous No.18301025]

>>18300774
nice, that's my favorite novel. how do you like it so far?
greetings from Germany :^)

[Anonymous No.18301029]

>>18301013
True, I’m currently at a graduate program there. I like it.

[Anonymous No.18301050]

>>18301013
>2. realises that Oxbridge isn't where all the more fun criticism happens
What do you mean by that?

[Anonymous No.18301053]

Got accepted to a masters at LMU-Munich starting this autumn. Is it any good? BTW I am not German (but I am white/Western European).

[Anonymous No.18301057]

>>18301053
What are you studying?

[Anonymous No.18301075]

>>18301050
Sorry, I should elaborate that I'm studying English. Oxbridge has a lot of really good professors (obviously) doing some really interesting work, but some of the more niche things that have interested me personally have more of an readership at other universities like York, Sussex, etc. Obviously prestige is one thing, but if you're pursuing an academic career and you're looking for the perfect advisor for whatever it is you want to study specifically, I think there's a lot more of a range at some of these universities that aren't Oxbridge for people to go down their more niche and varied avenues of interest. I'm saying this more for the undergrads who I know are staring at this thread looking for someone at Oxbridge to tell them that it's everything and anything. My bad for being too vague!

[Anonymous No.18301093]

>>18301057
Biochemistry, not really /lit/ tier I know.

[Anonymous No.18301097]

Community College
Helen Keller's essays and short stories collection

[Anonymous No.18301110]

>>18298314
I graduated last year and am looking to go back next year for grad school. Been visiting a friend who is pursuing a Ph.D and everything has changed so much already.

[Anonymous No.18301111]

>>18301093
As long as you like it thats the most important. Don’t know much about that German uni, but do you speak German or are lectures held in english?

[Anonymous No.18301137]

>>18297469
I would. I’m out in West Chester though.

[Anonymous No.18301145]

>>18301111
The education is entirely in English. I don't speak German very well, but I did study it for a few terms in high school, and my native language is a north Germanic language, so I think I could pick it up fairly quickly if I lived there. But I assume younger Germans nowadays are usually happy and capable to speak English with you?

[Anonymous No.18301152]

>>18300775
Yes, but it’s somehow still stressful. I was constantly stressed out and anxious in college despite having very little required readings or assignments. It’s the environment or something.

[Anonymous No.18301154]

>>18301075
Definitely right about that. For me, Oxford had just what I was looking for in terms of niche subjects though, offering Sogdian, Syriac, dicusssions on the monothelete controversy etc, with an enganging student milieux and teaching body. Oxbridge offers so much more with its collegiate system too compared to other uni’s, but I feel that’s more of a bonus on the whole.

[Anonymous No.18301170]

>>18301145
Yeah younger germans know english well, so do the professors usually

[Anonymous No.18301226]

>>18301154
Sounds really interesting! And the student body for sure adds a lot of depth. I'm currently caught on the fence between applying and changing my research interests or not bothering at all and just applying for other places for grad research. I'll figure it out over a gap year I guess.

[Anonymous No.18301246]

>>18301226
You could always try. Graduate degrees often matter more than undergraduate when it comes to humanities, so there’s no harm in at least sending an application if there is something that interests you.

[Anonymous No.18301251]

>>18300845
>have 6 essays and 1 ~40-page thesis to deliver in 1 month
Sounds easy as fuck and stop procrastinating, you loser.

[Anonymous No.18301255]

dundee university and not reading anything atm

[Anonymous No.18301263]

>>18301246
That's true, I'll keep it in mind, thanks! And maybe I'll get lucky and they'll have something that lets me work with what I want too.

[Anonymous No.18301288]

>>18301263
Hopefully, they are often lenient. The faculties often have a lot of resources, as well as the various colleges, so if one wants to pursue something specific it’s often not difficult. I wish you the best of luck if you decide to apply.

[Anonymous No.18301298]

>>18301255
How’s Dundee?

[Anonymous No.18301308]

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY @ WARWICK UNI
LEIBNIZ PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS

[Anonymous No.18301311]

>>18301308
Take your meds, schizo

[Anonymous No.18301325]

>>18300845
I did all of this in one week

[Anonymous No.18301346]

Reading Donos do Poder - Raymundo Faoro.
Guys could you please tell me about the University of Glasgow, I really liked a prof and dept there. However, although being good in the rankings I don't see its image as marketable as Edinburgh, etc (even though it's older). Can anybody with real knowledge tell me how it feels like studying there (quality ,etc)?

[Anonymous No.18301355]

>>18294192
Can I get into Royal Hollowway with an ACC? I was an A* student I swear, I resat but covid happened and resitters didn't get new grades. I don't want to go to fucking Swansea anymore. Please. I'm thinking of doing Bussiness and management, my year at Swansea has put me off English Lit

[Anonymous No.18301365]

iu489itporkglfui8u9it4oiur.

> jhu48u90ieproiuy8u9e4oieirduf8

Michigan State University // Personal Project

[Anonymous No.18301369]

>>18301355
For Graduate?

[Anonymous No.18301370]

>>18300681
i didnt apply to oxbridge, cba with entrance exams etc... Will reevaluate if/when I do a masters

[Anonymous No.18301377]

>>18301369
Undergrad

[Anonymous No.18301382]

>>18301377
Probably, there was more push in 2020 than in 21

[Anonymous No.18301389]

ENSAG.
Chants of Maldoror.
Currently fabricating a model of my project.

about to fucking end it all.

[Anonymous No.18301390]

>>18301325
Depends on your tutors' demands, since I'm in the arguably No1 Uni of my country.

>>18301251
You're a big guy.

>>18300891
Uni's demands. You can fuck up 2 courses and/or projects, you get 2 more tries to pass them, but on top of the new courses coming in. So in practice, fucking up more that once tends to turn into a death spiral.
On top of the pandemic, juggling jobs and the usual shit. We have had already 3 people quitting during the last 9 months - one dropped out for good, two went into a long leave to basically restart next year if you plead and cry convincingly enough on your woes.

[Anonymous No.18301397]

>>18300885
>>18300749
ah fair enough
for the record i definitely didn't deserve oxbridge anyway. i had good grades because i knew how to study effectively but i didn't actually develop a passion for what i do until my second year of uni, which means i would have been eaten alive during year 1 at oxbridge

[Anonymous No.18301408]

>>18301397
Well, there is always graduate.

[Anonymous No.18301455]

>>18301382
Thanks, I could use some reassurance right now. Do you think it's too late to apply now?

[Anonymous No.18301491]

>>18301455
I wouldn’t think so? I applied for UCL quite late and got an offer some weeks ago. I would try to submit the application as soon as possible though.

[Anonymous No.18301598]

>>18300681
I know many people at UCL that didn't apply to Oxbridge. I think it's a common misconception.

[Anonymous No.18301620]

sheff- ecce homo

[Anonymous No.18301626]

Someone give a shoutout to /lit/ on uclove

[Anonymous No.18301637]

>>18301598
Doesn’t UCL, Durham etc and Oxbridge have similar entry criteria?

[Anonymous No.18301649]

>>18301637
I would say so, yes. Depends on the field too. Of course, Oxbridge has the most competition, due to its reputation, so they usually implement more rigorous entry criteria in the form of interviews and extra examinations.

[Anonymous No.18301656]

>>18301390
For you

[Anonymous No.18301701]

>>18301637
UCL is for rich chinks and Americans who are too stupid to get into any other university so they just pay their way into the UK by matriculating into UCL

[Anonymous No.18301716]

>>18301390
>You're a big guy.
For you

[Anonymous No.18301730]

>>18301626
you got it

[Anonymous No.18301740]

>>18301154
Yup, here at Cambridge the supervision and college system is really good for helping you learn. You literally get to talk to world-leading researchers and academics multiple times a week about anything you want to talk about

[Anonymous No.18301753]

>>18301637
Not really. Durham thinks it is Oxbridge but it isn't even close in reality. You can get there with ABB. Meanwhile at Oxbridge you have multiple entrance exams, interviews and application forms to write and most students here are at the very least A*A*AA. I haven't met anyone with less than AAAA.

[Anonymous No.18301760]

>>18301701
I think this is true to an extent. Last time I checked, approximately 19% of UCL's students were international, compared to around 11 for oxbridge. I think there is no official cap, so I guess UCL is taking full advantage of their Chinese funding sources.

[Anonymous No.18301769]

>>18301753
I don't know about Durham, but places like UCL and Imperial have very similar requirements grade-wise compared to Oxbridge. Usually A*AA. 4 A-levels is not as common anymore.

[Anonymous No.18301770]

How the fuck do I get into Oxbridge for postgrad? What rank of Uni do I need to have gone to get in? I doubt getting an 1st at a third rate place would get you in

[Anonymous No.18301772]

>>18301753
i know a girl who got into oxford with AAB (for politics)
meanwhile i am at durham with A*A*A* (for compsci)
just fyi, not saying durham compares to oxbridge necessarily

[Anonymous No.18301776]

>>18301760
>approximately 19% of UCL's students were international, compared to around 11 for oxbridge
that sounds exceedingly low desu
fairly certain ucl is at least approaching 50% international

[Anonymous No.18301777]

>>18301770
Connections and experience in your field I suppose.

[Anonymous No.18301783]

>>18301772
Once you get an offer, you are basically secure, unless you really fuck up

[Anonymous No.18301792]

>>18301730
Cheers

[Anonymous No.18301796]

>>18301783
funnily enough another girl got an offer for politics but at cambridge, got the exact same grades as oxford girl and got rejected
she's at warwick now haha

[Anonymous No.18301805]

>>18301770
I got in for post grad and I took my bachelor at a 150 ranked uni internationally. Its not impossible, you just need to write good, have excellent grades and references who are somewhat internationally recognised and have published a lot.

[Anonymous No.18301807]

>>18301796
Oof. I guess that's fair.

[Anonymous No.18301820]

>>18301796
Grades are only the minimum criteria you need to face as there are a lot of other factors. If you have good enough grades they will look at your other merits and see if you fit.

[Anonymous No.18301857]

>>18301298
the university is pretty alright, the city outside of the university and downtown area is pretty shit

[Anonymous No.18301862]

>>18301857
In what way is it shit?

[Anonymous No.18301916]

>>18301862
It's in scotland

[Anonymous No.18301963]

>>18301916
Would you rather go to Edinburgh?

[Anonymous No.18301981]

>>18301862
nothing to do, poverty, junkies. But these are things you'll never find if you stay within the University/Downotown area. Dundee is the #1 in heroic consumption per capita in scotland but you really couldn't tell if you just stay withing the "gentrified" area

[Anonymous No.18301986]

>>18301981
heroin*

[Anonymous No.18302034]

>>18301981
What about the Uni of Glasgow? And why is Scotland considered shit? This doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous No.18302042]

>>18302034
It does make sense; it's scotland

[Anonymous No.18302073]

>>18302034
Scotland isn't considered shit. Edinburgh/St.Andrews/Aberdeen are world class Unis and the ones in the tier below like Dundee are still great. Just be ready for very shit weather if you're not from the UK. Also a big positive about Scotland is everyone is really nice

[Anonymous No.18302074]

>>18301355
you shouldn't bother going to uni at that point. do an apprenticeship or something, don't waste your time.

[Anonymous No.18302075]

>>18295956
Based autismo making faggots seethe

[Anonymous No.18302131]

>>18301981
>live in Scotland, the oil beast of the UK
>basically offered everything at life on a golden plate
>be poor
>do heroin
Do westerners really

[Anonymous No.18302151]

>>18296266
why do leafcucks read this so much, fucking hipsters.

[Anonymous No.18302154]

>>18302074
Trades are a meme

[Anonymous No.18302161]

I'm in a shit uni, but it's online so I don't give a shit about it anyways.

Anyways, Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous No.18302197]

>>18302131
Yes.

[Anonymous No.18302212]

>>18302161
Which uni?
Also, Count of Monte Cristo is great. Amazing prose.

[Anonymous No.18302248]

>>18302161
Uni is a scam. If you're reading this, unless you're going into STEM with a good pathway for a secure career, turn to alternative options.

[Anonymous No.18302546]

>>18302248
Why?

[Anonymous No.18302647]

Srinakharinwirot uni
phd physics student
cloud atlas

[Anonymous No.18302780]

>>18302546
A few of my peers are graduating from good unis with at least a 2:1 and are struggling to find work. Covid + foreign hiring has messed up the job market (in the UK at least).

[Anonymous No.18302983]

>>18299080
We should meet up, GR is great. Wanna meet outside of Goldwin Smith? I'll have a book in my hands

[Anonymous No.18303014]

berkeley dropout and

the bone clocks
10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world
detransition, baby
dune
and the bedside book of birds

[Anonymous No.18303018]

can anyone rec some synonymous alternatives, in dire need right now

[Anonymous No.18303026]

>>18303018
hard (difficult) to say, really

[Anonymous No.18303043]

>>18303018
once you're feeling over those keep in mind a picture is worth 1000 synonymous alternatives

[Anonymous No.18303112]

am at oxford studying philosophy joint honours

was reading dfw. now not reading anything. losing my fucking mind over exams. wanna kms, this place is hell

[Anonymous No.18303167]

catholic university of Leuven

reading:
Legend of the galactic heroes
Nietzsche - Birth of Tragedy

[Anonymous No.18303175]

>>18303112
perhaps the place isn't hell, but philosophy is

[Anonymous No.18303497]

didn't realize that there's so many brits on this board

[Anonymous No.18303590]

>>18303497
I'm a brit and I find it odd too. With how much "anglo seething" you see you'd think it'd be the opposite

[Anonymous No.18303739]

Vassar. currently reading a collection of short stories by Mary Gaitskill (not for class)

[Anonymous No.18303866]

>>18303167
How Catholic is this Catholic university?

[Anonymous No.18303932]

>>18301772
Durham undergrad student here and I agree with this. The grades are only lowered for subjects like education or anthropology. I have A*A*A*A and that's not uncommon on my course. I imagine the standard is pretty similar among the rest of the top 10, just with none of the entrance exams and interviews like oxbridge

[Anonymous No.18303957]

>>18294192
Santa Clara
Ancient Gnosticism

[Anonymous No.18304002]

>>18298239
lol are you sure you're not confusing your life with the plot of Ender's Game? why on earth would that kind of stuff be assigned to undergraduate students that don't have clearance or really any vetting at all?

[Anonymous No.18304049]

>>18303112
Which college? I’d feel bad if it was Wadham.

[Anonymous No.18304055]

>>18303497
A lot are internationally studying in the UK too I reckon.

[Anonymous No.18304069]

>>18296296
I did History at Durham and none of the professors are Marxist/SJW-tier.

[Anonymous No.18304111]

this is just a burger and bri-ish circlejerk innit