University thread

University thread

Isn't Reed that school for fat lesbians and trannies?

Yes

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University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences, The College of Arts & Sciences

UC San Diego

university of oklahoma

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trippy

uchicago, PhD philosophy

need friends

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OU was my undergrad, but now I'm at

who /UNAM/ here?

UvA.

Why do american universities try to be football teams?

Normie state checking in. But ayyyyy not too far from this user.

I can't be the only one

major?

I would be your friend but I don't live there and I don't know much about philosophy. We would just stay in and drink and play chess though probably unless you wanted to co dependent autists and go to bars to try to impress normie women who read a book once every 10 years for show.

What's it like? I'm applying to your program right now.

Yeah me too. What are you studying?

Universidad Nacional de Tucuman

>karlstad
Why?

I heard their philosophy department is excellent and the lecturers all really understand what they are talking about.

They're a great school for fashion too.

CS

Why not?

The university dropped 30 ranks on the QS World Ranking because of government cuts.
And the administration is the most incompetent people around.
Great research environment and great people though.

Just curious.

Because I live in Karlstad.

ayy

Shut-in autodidacts and single mothers.

>autodidact
>attending a university
pick one

I am arab but rich and I want to go there are the women nice?

Addazzio Sucks
York is great
I regret not majoring in philosophy so I could take a class with Based Kreeft
Poli-sci department is full of Straussians
Way to many WASPs for a school founded by Irish Catholics

These are not mutually exclusive, and on Veeky Forums of all places this should be blatantly clear. You seem to be implying that autodidacticism is a principled rejection of formal study or a lifestyle choice that is compromised by university attendance. It is possible to pursue an education in a subject other than that which you are taught – the practice of students of literature self-teaching philosophy and vice versa is incredibly prevalent, to take an example that is frequently presented on this board. Furthermore, within humanities fields today undergraduates must pursue a degree of autodidactic study if they wish to achieve a rounded education in their subject, given the dreadful and declining standards of research and teaching in most arts disciplines. Many Open University students are not in fact enrolled for the sake of education, but for qualification – I.e. autodidacts with need of a degree for career advancement or aspiration towards graduate programs.

I.e. :^)

>Using the term WASPs

Is life in the year of our Lord 2016 a 1990's Scorsese film?

>are the women nice?
The women are amazing. Intelligent, independent and beautiful.
You being arab might get you nowhere with some women. At least that's what I hear from friends with arab background, that have trouble with women because they immediately think you are a rapist.

Lot more foreigners here than I thought

Is Danish with and arabic accent as big of an affront to all that is beautiful as one would imagine?

This. You can get A's in all your courses and still not know anything about your subject in the humanities. People who know what they're talking about mostly had to teach themselves, i.e. do far more work than necessary to get a good grade.

I look more white desu. I am gonna try to breed some blonde Dane girls

thinking of applying. what did you have to do to get into the PhD program?

Sup fellow Reedie

Mostly. It's hard as fuck to be apolitical there, most of the people who didn't participate in the BLM protest on campus the other day got harassed

Fantastic physics program though so eh it's not too bad

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UW Madison

JHU Neuroscience Major

Basically the most Veeky Forums school in the world. Every day feels like a Steinbeck novel.

>state school
>Steinback

>Veeky Forums


haha

Try Columbia University in the City of New York. Pic is Butler Library, notice the names inscribed on the edifice.

Wow, pseud the building. I guess that does belong on Veeky Forums.

Feast your eyes on the Death Star pleb, the Infinite Jest of concrete structures.

gotta start with the greeks :^)

>cicero
>vergil
>greeks

I can see why you need that expensive education.

Any Bardians?

wew

If you know anything about the Core Curriculum, you read Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, etc (the Greeks) before you move onto the Latin authors. And I'm a financial aid recipient, so I'm sorry that you see cost as a barrier of entry.

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And if you had bothered to actually read those great thinkers, rather than skim through them so you could update your Goodreads account, you would know that the best life was one surrounded by the implements of agriculture because only a man that is in touch with the land can achieve greatness like the great rustic gentlemen of the enlightenment.

What is being higher educated feels like?

Required readings:

Homer, Iliad (Chicago, tr. Lattimore)
Sappho, If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho (Vintage, tr. Carson)
Homer, Odyssey (Harper, tr. Lattimore)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (Oxford, 4
th ed.)
Herodotus, The Histories (Oxford, tr. Waterfield)
Aeschylus, Oresteia (Aeschylus II, Chicago, tr. Lattimore)
Euripides, Bacchae (Euripides V, Chicago tr. Arrowsmith)
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin, tr. Warner)
Plato, Symposium (Hackett, tr. Nehemas, Woodruff)
Virgil, Aeneid (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum)
Ovid, Heroides (Penguin, tr. Isbell)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (Oxford, 4th ed.)
Augustine, Confessions (Oxford, tr. Chadwick)
Dante, Inferno (Bantam, tr. Mandelbaum)
Boccaccio, The Decameron (Penguin, tr. McWilliam, 2nd ed.)
Montaigne, Essays (Penguin, tr. Cohen)
Shakespeare, King Lear (Penguin, ed. Orgel)
Cervantes, Don Quixote (Harper Collins, tr. Grossman)
Milton, Paradise Lost (Oxford)
Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Oxford)
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (Vintage, trs. Volokhonsky and Pevear)
Woolf, To the Lighthouse (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
Morrison, Song of Solomon (Vintage)
Plato, Republic (Hackett)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics(Oxford,
trns. Ross/Brown)
Aristotle, Politics(Hackett)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
(Oxford)
Augustine, City of God (Penguin)
The Qur'an, Abdel Haleem ed. (Oxford)
Machiavelli, The Prince (Hackett) OR
Machiavelli, The Discourses(Penguin)
Hillerbrand, The Protestant Reformation
(Harper & Row)
Hobbes, Leviathan (Oxford)
Locke, Political Writings, Wootton, ed. (Hackett)
Rousseau, The Basic Political Writings(Hackett)
Smith, Wealth of Nations (Modern Library)
Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
(Cambridge)
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
(Oxford)
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman (Oxford)
Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Penguin)
Mill, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays
(Oxford)
Marx-Engels Reader(Norton)
Darwin, Norton Critical Edition (Norton)
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce
Homo (Vintage)
Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Norton)
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Grove)
Foucault, Discipline and Punish (Vintage)

It feels like you're just another piece of meat on the factory floor.

Looks like a bunch of books you haven't read. Is that supposed to impress me nerd?

I bet your "university" doesn't even have a small communist village where students can live on campus and grow their own food.

The Radical Tradition, R. H. Tawney
The Uncommitted, Kenneth Keniston
Towards a Visual Culture, Caleb Gattegno
The Two Cultures, C. P. Snow
The Unprepared Society, Donald N. Michael
Machine Politics in Transition, Thomas M. Guterbock
Methods fo Experimental Social Innovation, George W. Fairweather
The Hidden DImension, Edward T. Hall
The Compulsion to Confess, Theodor Reik
The Idea of Nature, R. G. Collingwood
Games People Play, Eric Berne
Self and Others, R. D. Laing
Problems of Historical Psychology, Zevedei Bardu
Knowledge and Wonder, Victor F. Wosskopf
The Revolt of the Masses, José Ortega y Gasset
Modern Science and the Nature of Life, William S. Beck
Capital, Karl Marx.
Race, Jacques Berzun
Small Groups and Political Behavior, Sidney Verba
The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich A. Hayek
Decisions and Your Future, Kendig Brubarker Cully
The Division of Labour in Society, Émile Durkheim
The Temper of Our TIme, Eric Hoffer
The Hero, Lord Raglan
Man, Machines, and Modern Times, Elting E. Morison
Critique of Pure Reason, Emmanuel Kant
The Image, Baniel J. Boorstin
Essays in Pragmatism, William James
The Lonely Crowd, David Riesman
Consciousness Unfolding, Joel S. Goldsmith
Essays in Experimental Logic, John Dewey
The Structure of Organizations, Eric Berne
Language Cahnge and Linguistic Reconstrucion, Henry M. Hoenigswald
Freedom Today, Hans Küng

>I-if I p-post my reading r-r-r-requirements m-m-maybe they w-w-won't call me a a a a pseud....

Fat chance pseud

Someone who has read, really read, all those books cannot be a pseud.

ey i live right by. Honestly basically feel like a student there.

I go to Princeton, though.

>he thinks anything can make someone immune to pseudotry

my nigga

Oh damn. What year? 19 here.

>all these people on Veeky Forums who claim to go to Ivies and similarly prestigious schools

For some reason I don't believe a lot of you because this seems more than statistically possible

Prove me wrong, I guess, it's just that my bullshit detector is going off

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Are you saying I don't go to UC Davis, the official university of Veeky Forums?

this.

Are you in the PhD program, user? Or undergraduate?

Nice, what's your interest in philosophy?

Studying philosophy, minor in poli sci

I'm pretty deep in Continental land (my writing sample is on Nietzsche, Bataille, and tragedy) so it might not end up being a perfect fit. But I took a look at the grad student page and was a bit surprised to see so many people with an interest in Continental thought. Can you tell me anything about the program?

Why would you say that? Where I go there are a good contingent of spergs with poor social skills, but with high intellect and interest in reading. Sounds pretty Veeky Forums to me.

pls respond

We should meet

what do Princeton people think of us Columbia folks?

What a waste of a good opportunity.

what? Wharton instead?

> Praesidium libertatis
> Implying

Isn't that the place Dennis Reynolds went to?

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Donald Trump was a Penn alum :^)

I was just teasing, you should do what you see fit. Congratulations on getting in.

Go dawgs ;)

Undergraduate atm, studying English focused in Creative writing

international relations/philosophy w/music history minor

the food music and microbreweries are the only legitimate scenes desu

Anyone else know how shit our English program is?

nothing really. Personally I am a fan since I like core curriculum. I know some kids that were considering going there. Everyone loves NYC I guess, so there's that.

what are you studying?

a-anyone else?

>Surrounded by spides and shmicks in my Politics degree

Should have really studied harder and went to Queens desu...

How do you like your professors?

Love this shithole.

Sup mate, the department does some fun shit if you decide to go. I usually get embarrassingly sloshed at the Folly. There aren't many easy ways to make friends at UChicago - I mostly hang out with mates from my undergrad frat and other international students. Pretty sure the uni will work you too hard for friends anyway...

So far (I'm a sophomore), they're actually all great. Know their stuff, teach well, provoke interesting discussions, provide good feedback on your writing, and overall just cool people.
You thinking of coming here?

A-anyone?

what year are you user? I just started