University/College Thread

>Bton College
>Art and Philosophy

What do you think of his dismissal of everything ever written in Sasnskrit?

>"It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England".

Queen's University at Kingston. Philosophy and Classics.

Reed College
Literature & History

Georgia Tech
Physics with a minor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Hey also reedie here. I'm in math departament, but i need to take some classes for my x requirement. What do you recommend ?

Which one is X again? I always forget the dumb Reed groups. That's just some random class right?

What's your year and what are you interested in? Did you like Hum110?

X is literally random shit. I didn't take 110 ( transferred into reed recently my first semester is this fall) I'm planning on starting with hum 220 for my A requirement and I wanted to take some lit/Phil courses for my x because I'm all done with b, d and most of c

I applied for a Mst in history at Edinburgh, but went to Oxford when I was accepted. How comfy is Edinburgh? It looked like a nice university, just the city itself seemed a bit too passive and remote

Ah alright. He's just a quick n dirty overview of shit that might help.
These are all upper division classes, but desu if you just talk to the prof who's teaching the class, they'll pretty much always let you in. Esp for the humanities courses.

>Philosophy
I've never taken a proper Phil dept. course at Reed, so I can't tell you much. Reed's Phil dept is explicitly analytical and you need to take Logic if you want to take any of the higher level courses. If you want to explore Continental phil, check out the Political, History, and Lit depts, you won't find it anywhere else.

>History
Take hum220 with Lazier if you still can, he's taking sabbatical next year and is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met. He's also teaching two great sounding classes this year: Arendt & Totalitarianism in the Fall, and Dreaming in the 20th Century in the spring.

A visiting professor is teaching a class on the Chinese Revolutions this fall. She's supposedly fucking brilliant, and I'm signed up for it but there's also a Russian Revolutions class being taught at the same time by one of the Russian profs. Both sound very promising.

Another visiting professor is teaching a class (in the spring IIRC) called Constructing Soviet Culture, which sounds p fascinating.

It's a Classics Class, but Millender is teaching her infamous Roman History course, which requires a fuck ton of reading but is, obviously, very in-depth.

Avoid all classes being taught by Michael Breen. He's a very nice man but also a total bore.

>English
Jan is teaching two classes about German Critical theory that I'd be taking if it didn't conflict with my schedule. Very smart and funny guy, although a bit of a diva.

Lencek is teaching his 19th c. Russian lit course in the spring, which is a pretty landmark class at this point.

Dickson is teaching a class on Oscar Wilde that sounds promising.

Faletra, one of my favorite professors, is teaching his Dante course this year. I'm very pissed that I won't be able to take it. In the Fall he's teaching a Arthurian Lit class that sounds fun.

Knapp, one of my other favorites, is teaching "Shakespearean Mimesis". He's Reed's Shakespeare guy, and will convince you that Lit theory and Shakes, despite its pretentiousness (he's got a good sense of humor), are revelatory.

Everyone hates Martínez now for some reason, but she's still very damn smart. She's teaching a John Donne course in the fall that sounds damn good.

Savery is a goddamn genius, and probably one of the most hardass profs at Reed. His Black Panthers course sounds well worth taking.

>Politics
Steinberger is sadly on sabbatical next year, but try to take one with him if he gets back. Although none of his classes have requirements, they've probably been amongst the most rigorous discussions I've had at Reed so far.

Avoid Darius's intro class, it's boring. Take Steinberger's Idea of the State instead.

Hope that helped.

**Darius is actually a really great guy, but his Intro Course was just pretty disappointing due to its size and short length. Were I taking another year, I'd definitely take his upper level classes. Try to snag a syllabus of his and talk to him during his office hours, if you wanna talk about politics. Probably one of the most approachable professors at Reed.

Plebian coming through

I don't think I would venture to disagree; and I don't think Macaulay held such a view out of a resentment for a less civilized people, who's works could thus be easily discarded after having been deemed inferior, but rather because, as widely read as he was, and having served first hand in governing India for 4 years, Macaulay simply concluded that the scope of Oriental literature, and its value, pales in comparison to the great works of the Western world.

Yes, the election was rigged and the mechanisms used to call the people to express it's will was unconstitutional, therefore not valid. The possible outcomes are frightening: a coup d'etat lead by God knows which military dissidents, which tend to be silenced and frustrated from the beginning by SEBIN (government's secret police), like the case of Oscar Pérez, the surreal special operations cop that claimed to be orchestrating such activity, but got emasculated by it's past as a leading actor in some kind of educational film promoted by the police organism. Then we have a popular rise to the arms, which would bring countless fatalities, for the military has got it's hands dirty with blood and money for a long time, and has not hesitated one second when told to ruthlessly kill demonstrators, while letting itself mix with “colectivos" (to the point of giving them military uniforms and fake credentials), which are basically criminals hired by the Government to fuck people up. There was a case of sixty colectivos stabbing to near death (twenty times) a demonstrator in a poor downtown part of my city. Then we have several internal brawls in the opposition hierarchies, divides between honest politicians in jail, like Lopez and Ledezma, bastard congressmen claiming to be real leaders of the opposition while engaging in million dollar contracts with officialist drug dealing politicians, like Ramos Allup and Borges. There is not a single honest socialist in PSUV hierarchy. There are only oligophrenic ultra corrupted plutocrats in power. In all of the possible outcomes, we'll have the incidence of United States explicitly-under-the-table classic policies. It's probably our best option, anyway.

Thank you my man

I don't think these threads accurately represent Veeky Forums as a whole, because people who go to shit or mid tier schools are much less likely to post for fear of being made fun of

>FAU
>Neuroscience and Behavior

No prob. If you any other questions about Reed feel free to ask.

That's a fucking shame. Do most people basically share your views? What's the common opinion of Chavez now, in light of all of that?

Thanks for the quality post too; very lucid.

Majoring in psychology, on the research track. I'm a senior, no regrets, but having to deal with so many preppy little assholes gets old real fast.

>tfw reed didn't want to give me any financial aid
h-have fun boys

Sorry to hear that man. Reed's Administration is undeniably shit.
Everyone hates it. They used to let anybody in who wanted to go, but since like the mid 2000s, when the state got mad over some heroin deaths, Reed put in place a new president and got campus police. It fucking sucks.

I definitely would not be going to reed if the professors weren't as great as they are. Sorry you couldn't come bud.

>no one else on this board was smart enough to get into oxford

Eh, to be expected I guess. I literally can't express how much better my life has been since I attended Oxford. I went to a state school and gradually became the stereotypical moody, withdrawn sensitive type who both despises the quality of his immediate culture and feels a weird pride for having been raised in a sort of anti-intellectual and brutal environment. I was all set to take my Russell Group humanities BA and spend my life working as an anonymous, insecure wageslave forever thankful of being offered a job and forever too insecure to pursue my creative ambitions. The chip on my shoulder had become something of a wedge, and I felt too out of place regardless of my environment, too resentful and bitter to even attempt to make it in the artistic world. Then I finally applied for Oxford and got in to study an English MA, with reassurance that should I work hard enough a career in academia or within one of Oxford's affiliated companies would be almost guaranteed. I turned up as apprehensive as usual, and the first few days were spent regretting my decision and desperately feigning a cultured personality. But then I realized that the people there were just interesting and that the snobbery and exclusivity I had anticipated was just a myth borne out of my working class upbringing. I've since graduated, having spend the year dining in grand halls with groups of interesting people, dating several girls (one of whom, a petite Russian whose family traces back to the aristocracy, is now my fiancee). I work four days a week at a publishing company and earn £38k a year. I regularly meet up with friends from my college and visit Oxford for nights out and for meetings with my professors. The Martin Eden-esque novel I have been writing for two years has been selected for publication at a major British publishing house and, honestly, I could not have imagined a few years ago how great life could be. I come on Veeky Forums and see how pathetic you all are and just shake my head and chuckle. If I saw you guys on the street I would of course throw you a penny or discuss Bukowski or whatever "realist" writers you enjoy, but ultimately I would be able to tell within ten seconds if you're an Oxbridge grad and would dismiss you as a potential source of good company if you are not. I never thought I'd know what it was like to be objectively better than somebody else, for the value of my existence to be superior to the value of a stranger's, but now I do and I've never been happier. People are awed by power and prestige. All I need to do is mention the university I attended (if only for a year) and they immediately begin to hunch and look at their feet because they know they are in the presence of greatness.

Well, that's like the general consensus. Things tend to get much deeper, obviously. Regarding Chávez, the man was a crazy bastard with little academic formation, propelled by his natural rhetoric abilities into power. His administration was a waste of resources in the name of demagogy and his pathological search for power. The low class commoner tends to see him as a man with deep academic foundations, but those of us that seriously study such academic fields (history, law, philosophy, politics) know he was devoid of any skill apart from political snake enchanting and commoner folk wisdom. Our opposition hates him to death, while having mixed feelings (mostly a balancing pendulum between hate and disgust) about those who call themselves “chavistas but not maduristas", while officialist keep on their religiously chavistic rituals as usual, while blaming everybody but themselves for their disgrace. They really see him as a Messiah, and uphold their politics of social resentment as their north, disregarding every juridical limitation to achieve their nasty, ultimately undefined project.

HOW DO I DO IT. Seriously how does someone get into oxford

Just mostly on social life. My politics/philosophy are very NOT reed aligned, but I'm a fairly open person and I just want to make friends and not make a fuss. I live in Woodbridge so I'm close to campus but I want to know what I should do to navigate and make friends outside my departament

Since I'm in a university thread, does anyone have links for study guides for some teaching exams? 160 and 177, specifically?

anybody here go to University of Oregon?

Can't help you much there. I fell in with most of my friends just by bumming cigs and pure luck. I don't think there's really any cohesive reed community anymore; and most of the "political stuff" (nothing more than neoliberalism w/ idpol tendencies, they'll have you believe that they're socialists though) is online and stays within like two or three social scenes you'd avoid anyway. Unless you're straight up /pol/, I don't think anyone save for a few dipshits are gonna care much about your philosophy as long as you're a nice dude.

Try chilling with some Philosophy Bros, even if they're analytics. They have short phil lectures/discussions at the phil society during lunch, and they host events too now and again. The Film Club is also hosted by a chill friend of mine and seems to be attended by nice people, even if I don't really like the films screened there itself.

It's pretty easy, from my experience, to chill and go by unnoticed. I'm also a brown dude though, so I don't have to worry so much about campus politics/speaking my mind.

What exactly do you guys plan to do with your humanities degrees? (this isn't a jab, i'm genuinely curious)

Go to law school, become a professor/teacher, join up with x company (being able to write a good paper can still get you places; silicon valley types were hiring a lot of humanities dudes for awhile.), work for a magazine/publication, though freelancing isn't as possible as it used to be, go into politics. Save for specialized fields, you just sorta do what everyone else tries to do. Undergrad degrees don't really matter much anymore

become a TA, later become a professor, write stuff, do research work.

OT: University of Virginia 2nd Year, History and Philosophy double major, minor in Classics.

>History and Philosophy double major, minor in Classics
Nice dude. What're your interests in each?

...

History- Studies of the Ancient Near East. Carthage, Pre-Rome Egypt, Jerusalem, Bablyon, mainly. If it's before Islam and to the east of Saudi Arabia, I probably know something about it.
Philosophy- History of Philosophy, mainly focused on Religion. ATM I'm finishing up St. Augustine's City of God, previously I had been reading Plato and Aristotle.
Classics-Attic Greek, specifically I enjoy the mythology.

International relations here: become a diplomat in the foreign service, become an ambassador.

Same as last time - on my way to becoming an embassy-recommended research student with a topic related to Japanese literature at a Japanese university of my choosing.

Get a PhD at the aforementioned university, teach comparative literature at a Japanese university. Presumably a hard goal, but I'll give it my best. If I fail I'll return to my country and work as an interpreter or something similar.

Syracuse, just looking for something that pays honestly

Good shit user. I started out on that path but eventually shifted my focus to late 19th, early 20th century America.

>Brown University
>Physics PhD starting in a few weeks

Yo what's up? USB graduate here. Do you have any plans to leave this shithole?

OP here, what are you studying right now? What college?

Nice, do you have any particular specialty in that?

Nothing yet, mostly because I change my major three times (Went in as a classics major, switched to Polisci sophomore year, decided all I really wanted to study was early modern lit and history halfway through last year). I'm pretty satisfied with just being a generalist though. I'm hoping my thesis will focus on examining the relationship between surrealist motifs in early modern literature and existing social/political conditions, especially within Kafka and Joyce. Who knows what I'll actually do though, I change my mind pretty easily.

Yeah! What do you study?
English and Comparative Literature here

Not sure yet, obviously English is an option, only starting sophomore year but I'm in the college of arts and sciences

Sup yo im a 3rd year there it sucks

Vassar College. incoming freshman. please tell me some of you weirdos will be there.

What's up compatriota (no chavismo intended), I pretend to get my three majors and go to Italy with my wife (we're both citizens) to opt for a Laurea Magistrale in Law, in order to exercise advocacy either as a professor or a private lawyer. Sounds cooler than it actually is. How old are you? Was you physics major as hard as it sounds?

>its to be expected that no one goes to oxford here but me

Kek at ur arrogance. i study history at oxford. Graduate life does look pretty cool but undergrad is a pain the arse imo. We're just on an essay treadmill the whole time while the grad students at my college get tons of free formals and only fortnightly or self-arranged supervisions whenever desired. The only official obligation within postgrads humanities at oxford seems like the meeting of the deadline for two pieces of written work within the course of your MA year.

As a wider point, it always brings a smile to my face seeing these whiny americans fantasising about their supposedly perfect life at oxford. All these romantic images of socratic walks through college gardens or intellectual discussions over formal dinners are, by and large, totally fictious. Its the same set of social circles, the same drinking culture, the same shitty clubbing, the same skipping lectures and the same moaning about tutors that comprise life here. Lectures arent anything special, the architecture looses its novelty quickly, and tutorials are often little more than excercises in bluffing your way through a given topic. A large proportion of the undergraduate body, like everywhere else, are either pretentious teens/early twentysomethings with delusions of academic grandeur; gymbro investment banker warren buffet wannabes; tech startup cunts; or the usual 'politically active' cretins who believe their affiliation with oxford grants them license to be even more smug and self assured when preaching their views to others (be it SJWs or Tory-hacks). Its all a fucking farce further propagated by the cash-cow American visiting students who turn up for a term on astronomical fees and arent subjected to the same intensity as the rest of us. This diluted rigour then grants them the free time to indulge in this romantic image, and they return home waxing lyrical about their 'authentic aristocratic experience' which is barricaded to everyone but these de facto tourists. I bet a significant number of them ascribe intellectuality to oxford students by virtue of our british accents alone. If anyone still interested in opting into the oxford myth then just do well in your BA and apply for graduate programmes. They're way less competetive.

>Oxford student takes copypasta seriously
I guess you're right, plenty of dumb people go to Oxford

Im a third year too. I actually don't mind it, kinda excited to be back this semester. Whats your major?

I'm 22. The major can be difficult if you aren't that good at math and don't have a good work ethic. Many classes are demanding, the more advanced laboratories require lots of time and attention and new concepts can be hard to accept/understand. What fucks most people up is that from the 3rd year on courses are only offered once per year (and our uni is on a quarters system instead of semesters), which gets you a bunch of people lagging behind their peers.

I didn't have much problems though, the only really stressful moments were when I was writing my thesis and applying to grad school at the same time plus some exam weeks in quarters where I had enrolled more credits than recommended.

How much time is it gonna take for you and your wife to leave?

i know who you are dude, haha

I'm 20. If I want to get my major degrees here, it'll take until I'm at least 23. By the way, how does one seriously gets started with maths? I've always wanted to learn. I have a propaedeutic maths course by Navarro, which compends all five years of high school in about 500 large pages. Is it any good?

>University of Florida
>Going into my second year
>English major
The department seriously sucks, I hate it here

Never heard of that book, but to start any precalculus book should work (which is probably what you have). If after that you're still interested in the subject, try picking up books on calculus and linear algebra. You should also look for courses online to follow a certain program and maybe read some lecture notes that explain certain things more carefully, a good place for that is MIT's OCW, which have video lectures, lecture notes and textbooks to follow.

Don't fret mate - just focus on getting into a good grad school and improving your skills.

I don't think I know you. Have we had a conversation before?

UChicago autist here as always

I'm starting a PhD there in 3 weeks.

Hispanic Linguistics.

>Cornell
ahahahahahahaha

t. real ivy

University of Washington, Seattle
English, writing emphasis

Someone help me.

What should I do if I want to know and study the ancient civilizations, study some philosophers like Aristotle, Agostinho, Aquinas and study the classics?

Interestingly, I find the response more interesting than the pasta. Then again, I've always been a fan of mundane realism. Good job, Oxford historian.

study classics (and stay in academia or you're going to have a tough time).

University of Kansas
English and Creative Writing

I know there are a few /ucsd/ on here.

We'll you have 2 options.

1) Pursue a graduate degree in your field of interest, and be relegated to teaching (if you're lucky), or end up in an unrelated career.

2) Pursue a practical degree, such as STEM or business, and study your interests on your own time.

Uhhh.. Study Classics? Half of your reading will be on philosophy and such.

Some universities also offer something called ''Ancients Studies'' or something. Though I feel that focuses more on art, history and Babylonia and such.

I studied Classics, I did well and still read Greek and Latin in my free time.

I'm literally a traffic warden. I make 14$/hr. Good state benefits and whatnot. Still, I'm a fucking traffic warden.

We already have a university thread in the catalog. Please delete this one and post in the CORRECT thread, located here

>but this one was posted first!
UVA is positioned higher than Syracuse in every university ranking on the planet, so that is the correct thread to post in

I really wish I were someone who could get terribly excited about some engineering or finance project. Get a job that's both practical and rewarding.

Then again, work isn't the end-all-be-all. If you don't love your job, try to set up your life so you work as little as possible. My dream is to work three days a week at a job that I somewhat enjoy, and spend the rest of the week reading.

Grove City College
mathematics/actuarial science
Minoring in economics

Boys, I'm going to have to remind you to read the thread before replying to it. The CORRECT thread to post in is NOT this one.

It is located here

This was discussed in an earlier post, located here
Next time please check the catalog to ensure that you are posting in the CORRECT thread, and make sure to read that thread in its entirety before replying. Thanks!

>81 replies
>5 replies
The people have chosen

Mass mediocrity is not an excuse for personal incompetence. Post in the correct thread NOW or there will be consequences

>UVA is positioned higher than Syracuse in every university ranking on the planet

But Devry has a more attractive student body.

I never saw someone so drunk they pissed off the side of their beds until I had contact with UVA students.

And the alumni are even worse. Truly the trashiest human beings I've had business with.

You want to talk about white trash?

Rich UVA students are the worst sort of white trash there is.

I would rather hang out in a trailer park.

Pic related, someone I knew.

starting here as a transfer in the fall, no idea what to expect.

St. John's College.

I'm a living meme.

Starting year 4 at brown studying Comp Sci and Philosophy

t. resentful low IQ beta male whose brain was too brown and inferior to make it in

>associate of violent nigger rapist hates whites who are smarter and more successful than he is
Shocker

Philosophy, classics, french, some combination of majors/minors.... Hopefully transferring after this year anyway.

>Eastman School of Music
>Performance

No other musicians on Veeky Forums?

I'm mostly into poetry but my top 5 would be:
Winesburg, Ohio
The Master and Margarita
Pride and Prejudice
Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
(if plays count) Aristophane's The Clouds

>"Easiest to get into hardest to graduate from"
:^)

In all seriousness though it's mostly above average white kids from westchester with the occasional genius or degenerate thrown in. Actually a pretty good mix of people.

>implying that it's hard to get into UVA

Wew lads

ayyyyy. Entering my last semester here as a civil engineering undergrad. How frustrating was it to take Good Life with people who sparknotes for every assigned reading?

CS. I hope we don't know each other that might be weird

>Willingly becoming a globalist

Highly doubt it, as many cs majors as there are, I only know a couple.
But I'm sure if either of us did know the other, we would both know the other is certainly not the kind of person who frequents a site like Veeky Forums and would never bring up such an absurd notion to each other.