University Education

The students at the University of North Texas gaze upon the green light (cf. Fitzgerald) of greatness. This blog collects some of their most delightful and inspirational flashes of brilliance.

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Is force a vector?

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Oh, it [the sequence 111201] looks like binary!

At UNT, students are encouraged to make their studies truly interdisciplinary, calling upon knowledge from other subjects with ease. Truly, in this modern, technological age, a knowledge of basic computer science is necessary to ensure success.

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Kerouac invented stream of consciousness.

One proud social revolutionary ironically exercises his own brand of stream of consciousness in his refusal to acknowledge mainstream literary thought.

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We have laws for capacitors and resistors - do we have any laws for batteries in series or parallel?

The instructor struggles to construct a coherent response to this student's blaze of unadulterated brilliance. At UNT, students are encouraged to ask hard-hitting, pointed questions.

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Like, in the Enlightenment, they were Daoist and stuff.

A student's articulate and trailblazing interpretation of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" dares to tear down ethno-cultural boundaries by drawing audacious cross-cultural connections.

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Julius Caesar is the guy from Shakespeare.

Scholars at UNT display a remarkable depth of historical knowledge. The renowned playwright William Shakespeare also created Henry VIII and Cleopatra; however, he is perhaps best known for writing Hamlet and its sequel Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. (via thisuntstudentssay).

noooooooooooooo. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead was absurdist tragicomedy  that was not written by Shakespeare. it was written by Tom Stoppard. it was also written in 1966, so if you’re gonna complain about students not knowing something make sure you aren’t also wrong.

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Members of the well-educated tumblr community possess a keen awareness of such sophisticated satirical techniques as verbal irony. Like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, they are characters in their own absurdist tragicomedy.

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I don't know what i-am-bic pen-ta-me-ter is!

Advanced linguistics is this student's tool;

he never learned in element'ry school.

At UNT sheer excellence is found

in students whom old Shakespeare would have drowned.

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Julius Caesar is the guy from Shakespeare.

Scholars at UNT display a remarkable depth of historical knowledge. The renowned playwright William Shakespeare also created Henry VIII and Cleopatra; however, he is perhaps best known for writing Hamlet and its sequel Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

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I don't know who [Nixon] is. I'm not a history person.

The material covered in university-level courses is so comprehensive and thorough that students are constantly pushed outside their intellectual comfort zones.

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I can believe [that all poor people are lazy]! I mean, most of the population is obese!

A politically conscious student elucidates the true root of poverty with a keen sense of rigor. Sociologists would be envious.

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I noticed that he uses parentheses; what do they signify?

Alexander Pope's creative use of arcane punctuation in his Rape of the Lock bewilders many.

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I absolutely loathe A Modest Proposal because it's the ultimate dead baby joke, and I HATE dead baby jokes!

A UNT student's critical, objective evaluation of Swift's work raises probing questions about the moral degeneracy of Enlightenment society.

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How do you know that you only go around once, from 0 to 2 pi?

Integrating over a circle in polar coordinates is one of the many difficult concepts that students at UNT struggle to master in their quest for intellectual excellence.

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But lobster is, like ... a bug!

While comparing the butchering of human children in Swift's A Modest Proposal to the treatment of animals raised for consumption in reality, it is noted that crustaceans have it much worse: they are boiled alive. This is one educated student's deep insight.