kirjakaappi

25 | INFP | Ravenclaw | Aquarius

[psikonauti]

Jim Musil -  Pacific Coast

[darkmacademia]

copying out some old book notes into my commonplace book with my fountain pen!

[thepuppyclub]

Most emails do not find me well bro.

[djklmnx]

[englishgradinrepair]

sometimes I feel like I nod too much, but yes! (x)

[falsedetective]

the uncanny valley between “this academic article doesn’t make sense because i’m an idiot” and “this academic article doesn’t make sense because the author is an idiot”

[laleaurelie]

a gloomy wrap up. writing down a very belated to-do list for 2020 after finishing my reading on stoicism by epictetus. heavy rain outside my window makes my heart melt. 

// evening sessions

[medlit-study]

a French man will write something like “the structured structure is structured by structuring structures” and the academic community goes bananas

[delphicoracle]

putting the finishing touches on my second and fourth chapters, and then it’s off to my advisor for critique and time to move on to the third chapter.

[studyingonpointe-blog]

12/11 ▪ Okay studying for finals might be the most stressful time of the school year, but these cat stickers might be the most adorable stationary I’ve had all year. Go get some pretty stationary to make you happy and don’t stress too much, exam season is almost over.

[vintageeveryday]

A student reading at his desk, smoking a cigarette, 1956. Photographed by Thurston Hopkins for Picture Post.

[somerabbitholes]

16.12.19 // I'm terribly sick but I have my periodic tests from the 18th

[galina]

📓 🔅

[quotemadness]

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Mark Twain (via quotemadness)

[whitepeopletwitter]

[academicssay]

[professorerudite]

Yep. This is true.

[veryfunnymemes]

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

Seriously tho as someone who put literal years of effort into creating a Wikipedia hoax it’s basically impossible to get away with for more than like an hour. They’re fucking vigilant. I tried to build up trust by doing legit editing but my account got reviewed cause I approved a page that mismeasured the size of a ship by a few centimeters

[oldshrewsburyian]

Okay, NO, though. I’ve already responded to this post here, with external links, but I will add this: the mere existence of sources says nothing about the validity of those sources. It doesn’t tell you whether those sources are outdated, or disproved, or maybe just neglecting marginalized voices in the field. Despite concerted effort – I know a number of college instructors who do Wikipedia editing projects with their classes – Wikipedia is still not some wondrous “free source of unlimited information.” In some areas, sure, it can be great. In others… not so much (see this Harvard study.) Gender bias remains a pervasive problem. If you want a starting point, as an educated reader? Sure, go ahead. But for the love of all that is good, don’t stop there. I really, really worry about holding up any single resource as some sort of Holy Grail. And using the mere existence of sources as a test of accuracy/reliability, as the Tweet does? I need to breathe into a bag and recite a list of logical fallacies.