#higherlearning

[thedeluxedoll]

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The Sun Enters Sagittarius

22.11.25

What’s this transit about?

It’s a shift of focus toward a more optimistic way of thinking — a gentle reminder to notice the bright sides of things and to view your life from a broader, more global perspective.

It’s also a great time for learning, teaching, exchanging ideas, uncovering truths, and diving into heated debates.

To imagine the vibe of this season, picture an inner landscape like a spiritual seminary’s dorm and lecture halls — student–teacher life flowing as usual, but with everyone making an effort to stay uplifting, inspired, a little closer to the divine.

Still, this period will place all the dots over the “i” in many hidden matters, revealing growth points even in small conflicts. It brings faith — in yourself, in others, and in whatever higher forces you trust. It can be a time for reconciliation with old enemies, or for confidently cutting off connections that are inherently destructive and carry no life-giving purpose.

Yet Sagittarius season has its flaws: nuance gets blurry, details slip away, and it’s hard to hold onto specifics when everything is ruled by expansive Jupiter.

But if your intention is to put the puzzle together — not to calculate the exact algebra of how it should fit — then this is your moment.

This period lasts until 21.12.25.

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Black Excellence

courtesy of Mama AZ!

[vedicinsights]

LET ASTROLOGY CHOOSE YOU!

[erik-powery-for-america]

THE TRUMP EFFECT

Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students In a startling escalation in its war against higher education and, well, knowledge in general, the Trump regime just revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country. The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, claiming Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by allowing "anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators" to assault Jewish students on campus. It also accused Harvard of coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party, saying it hosted and trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group as recently as 2024. Harvard enrolls almost 6,800 foreign students at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, accounting for more than a quarter of its student body. Most are graduate students, coming from more than 100 countries. We call it fascism because it is fascism.

[belongstolove]

[salty-professor]

You should know this already

So, I have several degrees. This isn't a humble brag. It is what is required to teach in Higher Ed. I did the work. I earned the degrees. I was a student over and over and I learned and I learned so that I could, one day, like say, today, impart my knowledge to a student who wishes to learn from me. Maybe not me per se but someone like me. Someone who is an expert in a particular field who can help people become better at something.

This is the job I do. This is the job I just did ten minutes before I sat down to write this. I have a student who is riding the struggle bus at the moment with this unit's concepts. To help out, I've spoken to her, met with her virtually, chatted with her on the phone, and today, replied with a detailed email.

I have the privilege to do my job, but I worked my ass off and made huge mistakes along the way and now, here I am, in the Ivory Tower, trying to take it apart bit by bit so that it can be built again, stronger than before.

I teach. That is what I do. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I am a professor who doesn't profess. I teach. I like to actually find out what my students need and I work with them to crack the code. Does it take more time? Yeah. It does. Is it the right thing to do? I mean, I guess it depends on each person who sits on my side of the desk, but I think this is the job.

A few things drive me crazy about my colleagues. OK. Way more than a few. I wrote a whole book about it because my list is so long. I should say ONE of the things that drives me crazy is when one of them says to a student "You should know this already."

For those who have never been insulted with this bullshit line, here is what it sounds like.

Student: Um...Professor Fuckhead, I am really struggling with subject/verb agreement. You keep telling me that I am doing it wrong, but I just don't really get what you are saying. Professor Fuckhead: That was something you should have learned in elementary school at best or middle school at worst. I don't have time for that. I'm not teaching you English, I'm teaching you how to write effectively.

Yeah, so, Professor Fuckhead isn't wrong about a lot of that, BUT, he should take a few minutes to help out. He totally has the time. The class only meets 2.5 hours per week. All kinds of fucking time. Beside, the fact remains the student doesn't know it and s/he/y is asking for help. So, it is Fuckhead's fucking job to help. I'm not suggesting that Fuckhead needs to set up private tutoring sessions for this struggling student, but the internet is vast and the resources are free.

If it were me, I would say something like:

Page 22 in the free handbook I send you all on day one of the class should give you a lot of insight. Also, Grammar Girl has some excellent videos and resources that can help you refresh your skills. Let's look at a few instances in your writing where you are doing it wrong and then you can look at the resources and you can try to find the others in your paper. I'm not going to fix them for you, but I will show you how you can fix them.

I didn't shame the student. I didn't put up a wall. I didn't do the work for h/er/m either. I gave some help. I showed the student how to fix the problem and shared some resources because, yes, the student should know this already. This is college BUT s/he/y is struggling.

I know I can pass the course I am teaching. That is sort of the point of getting all the degrees. At some point, someone with more degrees than me took a moment to explain things to me that I didn't know even if I "should" have known it.

The world is big and our brains are stuffed with a lot of shit. I know that Brian May is both a rock god AND an astrophysicist. Is that helpful? No. Could I have used that mental space to remember something someone taught me when I was 9? Maybe.

Instead, I listened to Queen and then I asked a question of someone who knew more than me and while I was told on many occasions by Professor Fuckhead that I should know that already, thankfully, I had plenty of teachers who decided to take five minutes to help me out. Seems only right that I pay that forward.

#educationisaright

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💜💜 Reposted from @stic The OGs used to always greet me with things like what’s good Youngblood, tell me what you know good. They were always encouraging me to respect wisdom and to pick up gems from living life. A student of life is always in school, always taking notes and always learning from experiences. Living is learning. It’s been in our DNA from day one. The Universe is our campus. Know thyself is the school motto. You are the University. #higherlearning https://www.instagram.com/p/CXuMVRtN5cZ/?utm_medium=tumblr