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[roussehoe]

wh-subject movement feels like fever dream

[underwelmed]

source

[roussehoe]

Autonomous vs interactive models round 2.

Fight fight fight

[curseofmxcbeth]

Dark academia lifestyle

Talk less about yourself. 

Wear vintage clothes.

Wear delicate jewellery.

Wear dark colours.

Embrace some emo and goth style.

Listen to classical music. 

Light candles. 

Stay ahead in school. 

Go to libraries, museums, bookshops cafes, art galleries and thrift stores. 

Eat hearty soups. 

Have routines.

Study. 

[daisystudies]

tips for college classes that nobody tells you

1. don’t load your hardest classes in one semester. find out which classes within your major are rumored to be tough and divide them out throughout your time in college.

2. don’t show up to class earlier than 10 mins early. the class before yours will likely still be in there finishing up, and you’ll either walk in in the middle of a lecture or have to stand outside for a long time. just get there 5-10 mins early and you’ll be fine!

3. create a group chat for all of your classes. find a few friends from class and make a group chat! this can be either on imessage, groupme, or whatever is most popular to use at your school. this can be your go-to place to ask questions about assignments, due dates, etc. before asking the professor!

4. as for class participation, quality>quantity. in most college classes (with the exception of huge lectures) participation accounts for a chunk of your grade, and some professors take that grade very seriously. however, this doesn’t mean you should raise your hand and talk whenever you find the opportunity- your professor (and your classmates, for that matter) will appreciate you much more if your comments and questions are less frequent and have more to add to the class. 

5. the readings listed under a date in a class are due for that class, they are not homework for the next class. this is one of the biggest issues college freshman have at the beginning of their first semester. unless the professor specifically says otherwise, if the syllabus is set up to list each class individually with the readings underneath/beside the class, they are due for that class, not the next one.

6. make yourself known to your professor! this is especially important for a large lecture, where they won’t get to know you otherwise. stop by their office hours or go up to them after class and introduce yourself- making a connection with your professor can open more doors than you may know!

7. rate my professor is not always accurate. professors can get better or worse, and different people have different experiences. though it’s a great tool and you can still use it to see what people think, if you’re stuck with a professor that is ranked low, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll have a bad time in that class.

8. sometimes it’s okay to just skim your readings. you’ll find out soon enough if your professor basically goes over exactly what the reading says every class. if so, you only need to skim it over and take light notes. don’t spend hours closely reading a textbook that your professor is just going to go over word for word the next day (unless it helps you- if so, do it!)

9. the guy in class that answers every question isn’t smarter than you. that’s it.

10. if you come from a lower income area or a worse school district than your peers, you may be playing the “catch up game” for a while. it’s okay! i personally go to a college where most students here come from wealthy families across the world and were sent to the best high schools possible. if you, like me, come from a mediocre public school, you may feel like you’re a beat behind your peers when it comes to background knowledge. don’t give up. work hard, you’ll catch up with them soon. (also- they aren’t smarter than you just because they had better opportunities than you did growing up. at the end of the day, you ended up at the same college)

[drlinguo]

Series: Noam‘s secrets

Source: https://twitter.com/lauren_bliksem/status/1170963758325338114?s=21

[violetsnotebook-archive]

my november in photos / always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. – e.e. cummings

[pianoandstudy]

11/04/2018 :: Today I’ve revised maths and economics and studied lots of history.

[linguisten]

“To Italians, gesturing comes naturally. “You mean Americans don’t gesture? They talk like this?” asked Pasquale Guarrancino, a Roman taxi driver, freezing up and placing his arms flat against his sides. He had been sitting in his cab talking with a friend outside, each moving his hands in elaborate choreography. Asked to describe his favorite gesture, he said it was not fit for print. In Italy, children and adolescents gesture. The elderly gesture. Isabella Poggi, a professor of psychology at Roma Tre University and an expert on gestures, has identified around 250 gestures that Italians use in everyday conversation. “There are gestures expressing a threat or a wish or desperation or shame or pride,” she said. “The only thing differentiating them from sign language is that they are used individually and lack a full syntax.””

— Rachel Donadio, When Italians Chat, Hands and Fingers do the Talking (via welcometoitalia)

[luxe-pauvre]

“PhD programs in general have fostered this culture, online in particular, that insists that being a doctoral student is this really terrible difficult thing. I remember there was a blog that was popular when I was in grad school and writing about this stuff that was called “Dissertation Hell”. It was just all self-reflectively about just how hard and terrible and impossible it was to be a PhD student. I do not like these cultures. Here is why I think these cultures emerge … My observation at the time when I was a grad student is that, a lot of PhD students struggled with the worry that what they were doing was not a real job. Their friends had real jobs where they had to go to an office and work hard all day, their parents had real jobs, and let’s be honest, being a doctoral student does not feel like a real job. You go in, you see your professor maybe once or twice a week, there can be whole days where you do nothing, and other times where you’re busy. My somewhat flippant analysis was by cultivating these cultures of misery around doctoral work, it at least gave you a way of saying, hey this is really hard. This was implicit, you might not be doing this consciously, but it was a way of saying, oh this is really difficult, so therefore it’s justified as something to do. The other aspect at play behind these cultures is that there’s just almost no structure in doctoral programs, and for some people, and by some I mean basically most, it’s really really hard. It’s really really hard sometimes to build up a years worth of self motivated work with high stakes evaluation, without structure, without milestones along the way, and so some of this sense of failure and misery is just that it’s novel. Lack of structure is a novel set-up for work that takes some adjusting to. I point that out only to say, those are largely constructed cultures. … You are going to be fine. Focus on the process.”

— Cal Newport, Deep Questions Podcast (14th June 2020)

[roussehoe]

It’s all fun and games till you get into X bar and come across with a PP.

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

Sociolinguistics 101:

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

Dialectology 101

Prescriptivism 101

Etymology 101

Raciolinguistics 101

Semantics 101

Grammatical Tense 101

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

Referential Inscrutability

Syntax 101

Variable Rhoticity 101

Phonology 101

Classical Philology 101

Language Preservation 101

[violetsnotebook-archive]

17.11.20 / a week or so ago, someone asked me about how to take notes and the first step i mentioned was to simply write key phrases or keywords. i thought i would share these initial notes for a change. as you can see they’re messy and barely legible. but that’s ok because the notes just have to get written before anything else. anyway, i hope you’re having a lovely tuesday so far. let me know how you’re doing! take care ♡

[madnessofmen]

Every time I see people maligning academics for not writing in ways that are immediately accessible to them, my blood just instantly boils. Posts like this:

I feel like people don’t know that academic papers are not targeted at students?? They’re actually meant for other experts, academics, and industry professionals; of course students aren’t going to understand it!

See, academics actually have two jobs: teaching and learning. When they’re writing papers, they’re not teaching; they’re just sharing what they’ve learned so far. They’re basically going, “hey, any smart people out there know what to do with this data?” they seriously don’t care about students at this point at all.

The teaching part comes when all that knowledge has been verified/spread/gotten feedback and is then incorporated into textbooks and curriculums, and explained in a way for students to understand. So if you want to learn, go read a textbook! Or a literature review! Those are really good for academics that are dipping their toes in a new field; they’ve got the basics but need an overview of what’s been happening recently and where to start.

1) Wasting time rehashing what somebody has already said instead of citing their work

2) Wasting time explaining the definitions of basic words to industry professionals

3) Good, yes, this is what academic papers should be like.

4) This is what happens when you aren’t familiar with a field. I know this because I had to do this for both my undergrad biochemistry thesis and for the dark ecology (philosophy) kritik I made for the debate team. It’s hell. Get over it. You’re not a genius and you don’t know everything. My advice though: don’t try to learn from papers. As I said above, they’re not intended to be teaching materials and you’ll stop being frustrated when you realize that. Stop trying to drink soup with a fork.

*students just don’t have the necessary framework to understand it yet* AND THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT because good teachers will build that for you!! That constant state of confusion? That’s academia babey!! Literally was reading philosophy last night. I was confused as fuck! The teacher explained it! Cool, huh?

The teacher (usually) isn’t out to get you. The teacher seriously does not expect you to have understood the readings. The teacher actually expects you to be really really confused. The purpose is to get you to think like an academic; you’ve been given some new information, now think about it. How does it connect to what you already know? What further questions do you have? (You probably have a lot!) But what about…? And if…? That’s literally all academics do all day.

Also, when you’re in undergrad, the papers you’re assigned to read in class are likely 30+ years old, if not hundreds of years old (*cough* philosophy). That material has been in circulation for ages, so of course you’re going to find better explanations elsewhere. But at the time of publication, that paper was literally the only information on that subject. Those were the brand spanking new ideas of the time!

That’s literally how research works lmao. If you are a world expert on the Bleeding Edge of knowledge, you should be the only one that really understands your work. If it were obvious and easy to understand, it would have been done ages ago.

And the thing is: at the time of publication, yeah you’re probably the only one that understands it. And in the ten years following, people will write more papers citing yours and if notable enough, it’ll make its way into textbooks, where people will explain it even further. By then you will probably have also given serval talks to clarify and explain your ideas, maybe even written a book or contributed a chapter to a textbook.

Sometimes STUDENTS that NEED TO READ ACADEMIC PAPERS MULTIPLE TIMES TO UNDERSTAND THEM are NORMAL. Even academics do it. Don’t stress. You’re not dumber for it. Take it slow.

[academiques]

saturday, nov. 14 // plays bingo with nabokov

[negativefeedback-teen]

👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 not👏🏾 a👏🏾 service 👏🏾

Pass along and use the shit out of them

[rotgospels]

“Alienated from society and themselves, Romantic-Gothic heroes undergo the effects of this disillusion, doubting the nature of the powers that consume them, uncertain whether they originate internally or from external forces. Without an adequate social framework to sustain a sense of identity, the wanderer encounters the new form of the Gothic ghost, the double or shadow of himself. An uncanny figure of horror, the double presents a limit that cannot be overcome, the representation of an internal and irreparable division in the individual psyche.”

— Fred Botting, Gothic