Hey Veeky Forums, I need some advice. The shortest version of this long story - I'm going to a school where there is no set curriculum, and so am going to take a graduate-level course on the poetry of Ezra Pound, a lot of which I've read. The teacher of the class has approved me for the course, but my advisor is naysaying and getting my old spirits down. Look what he wrote - I don't think he appreciates autodidacts, and I'm not such a Pound fan that I'd do all of what he suggests, but my god one class can't be so overwhelming.
Sorry to dump all this shit on you. Thanks.
Matthew Perez
Your advisor thinks you're a brainlet lol
Adrian Lee
you just want to tell people you're in a masters level course kys
Caleb Perez
he does...it feels horrible
Connor Thomas
thats really not why i swear
Jaxson Mitchell
Go to class and fucking prove him wrong.
Luis Richardson
amendment - this is only part of the reason
the other part is that quality of education in the undergrad humanities is awful - i want to see what's ahead
Jayden Sanchez
Am I the only who finds the idea of a graduate level course on Ezra Pound's poetry hilarious? Like, it's fucking poetry. A poetry of one single person. How can there be a fucking entire course built around that unless it's just a ploy by a bunch of pseudo-intellectual professors to create a bunch of smoke and mirrors and fancy sounding theories in order to justify their own employment.
Isaiah Sanders
>unless that's literally what it is
Grayson Nelson
To add. I would really like to meet a person who teaches such a course. I couldn't help but wonder whether he/she knows she's pulling one on unsuspecting audiences. Like do you have to pinch yourself constantly to believe normies are actually paying you for this shit right here? Or do you self-delude to the point that you yourself start believing in it?
Anthony Gutierrez
>Am I the only who finds the idea of a graduate level course on Ezra Pound's poetry hilarious? Yes
Ian Jones
>graduate level course on Ezra Pound's poetry hilarious? Hilarious but also great!
David Scott
then a) why did you take humanities it's fucking useless and b) why would you ruin your GPA and waste your money
Evan Harris
Colleges are not necessarily pragmatic - if taking this course is not marketable it is not for that reason less valuable. "It's fucking poetry"...read Philip Sidney's Defense of Poesy you roob
Liam Bell
Plebimus maximum here.
Robert Phillips
You both seem to imply that the best thing to study in college is what's marketable. Utlity is a fine spook.
As William James said in a letter to H.G. Wells "The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease."
Dominic Thompson
There is a lot of theory and generic concepts you will not understand, but you can try.
Lucas Barnes
I think I will, I've studied on my own pretty seriously
Mason Bennett
nice
Grayson Hughes
Why are you shit posting? Your councilor admits plainly: there is no reason you can't take that course and you can sign up for it. It seems you have reached your final goal and you should be happy.
James Taylor
Thanks
Carson Campbell
I think Pound was a significant enough poet to warrant this (knew how many languages? had mastered how many canons? guy's legendary). It's unconnected to the money supply, one of the few things left in western culture that's supposed to be, anyway.
Logan Harris
agreed, just go for it man
I don't know why this guy is biting his fingernails. Like I appreciate his concern but the solution isn't to say "YOU'RE GOING TO FAIL, I DON'T BELIEVE IN YOU!!!" what a faggot.
try it out and if you fail, it doesn't even matter... God what a shitty counsellor. Just sign up and enjoy it...
Kayden Gonzalez
Spooks are spooky
Carson Miller
It is for that reason less valuable. Post secondary education is an investment, wasting an investment on something that will not have a high chance of making you money, is useless. Indeed, better to go to trade school for plumbing or HVAC.
Ryder Allen
You should send your adviser a copy of Ezra Pound's transcript
Sebastian Myers
>Why would anybody base anything they do in their entire life on anything other than maximizing profit? I hate people like you so goddamn much
Austin Myers
It's not just about reading the poetry of Ezra Pound. You will also have to know something about the scholarship, so you will have to be familiar with the current trend of Pound criticism (I'm talking journal articles and that sort of thing), which graduate students will be used to. I'm not saying that you can't do it, and I know that a sufficiently intelligent person can quickly get himself up to speed. Just don't assume that it'll be quite the same as an undergraduate class.
Joseph Sanders
user, I was so dyslexic as a kid I couldn't read or write properly until I was about 8 or 9.
I remember some bitch at my school told me I'd never make "mainstream education". I finished school with perfect grades in English and Philosophy and walked into a Oxford interview fucked up on booze and valium.
Don't let people define you.
Zachary Murphy
>I finished school with perfect grades in English and Philosophy and walked into a Oxford interview fucked up on booze and valium. >Don't let people define you. Whoa...Ipsniring