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100 Days of Productivity - Day 2

19/10/2021 || bringing a little bit of autumn into my office.

Read up on stylistic devices in historiography today and made all the notes necessary to do a textual analysis tomorrow.

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100 Days of Productivity - Day 1

18/10/21 || Back from a semi-hiatus on this blog, now no longer as a MA student but as a PhD candidate in ancient Greek literature. As progress on a large research project is slow and often not easily visualized, I wanted to start the 100 days of productivity challenge to keep myself motivated and make a log of my activities. So here goes!

Today I prepared one of the seminars of an upcoming conference, meaning I read the (humongous) article and spent almost an hour brainstorming a solid research question about the topic.

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thoodleoo

really love seeing old translations of naughty greek and latin texts where they’ve been translated into, like, italian instead of the translator’s native language, because all i can imagine is some old victorian translator sitting there with a copy of martial’s epigrams like

wlwellbutrin

it’s really fucking interesting that accusations of inaccessibility never seem to be levied against The Hard Sciences

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if someone asks me what i’m doing in lab and i explain a little bit of maxwell’s vortex hypothesis, nobody expects to understand the whole thing. you have to have some foundational knowledge of calculus and electromagnetism, and you need to study faraday’s experimental data; without those, i can give you a summary of maxwell but i can’t possibly make you understand the whole thing. that’s not a failing on my part, your part, or maxwell’s. it’s just how it goes when someone produces a paper in a specialized field, and people generally accept that.

if someone asks me what i’m writing my annual essay on and i say it’s about spinoza’s conception of god as explicated through nature, suddenly i’ll get people who expect that either the entire thing needs to be stated in fifth-grade vocab terms, in which case they’ll shit on the entire field of philosophy for being easy, or i’m being inaccessible and elitist, in which case they’ll shit on the entire field of philosophy for being pretentious and esoteric. it’s striking, actually, the extent to which people have different expectations of subjects i’m in fact studying simultaneously in an interdisciplinary program.

there are plenty of academics who overuse jargon, whose writing is genuinely unintelligible and needlessly convoluted, and who i would like to punch in the face. but the solution to that problem is not to make blanket statements about how knowledge must always be accessible to people outside the field. and even when people do make those statements they never mean them. what they mean is that they think humanities are essentially lower and dumber than hard sciences and that the way students discuss them should reflect that.

catilinas

*latinist voice* peloppnnpnppnesian war

#yes call them out

vampiregerards

peak academia is scanning a 300 page book for a single phrase to use in ur essay just to add the big fancy book title to ur sources

Miremur periisse homines? Monumenta fatiscunt,/ mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.

Ausonius, epigrammata 37 (”Why are we surprised that men die? Monuments fall apart, death comes even for stones and names.”)

#ausonius #quotes #latin quotes #latin poetry

terpsikeraunos

ἀστέρων πάντων ὀ κάλλιστος - …the loveliest of all stars…

Sappho (Lobel-Page 104b)

#sappho #greek poetry

illinoisrbml

When we think of 3D technology, we don’t often think of the sixteenth century books. However, printers have found ways to creative interactive texts since printing began. For example, Euclid’s The Elements of Geometrie included shapes that buyers could cut out and glue onto the pages of their book. These cut-outs would then form the three-dimensional shapes described in the text, like the pyramid above!

Euclid, The Elements of Geometrie of the Most Auncient Philosopher Euclide of Megara (Imprinted at London: by John Daye, 1570). Q. 516.2 Eu2:E1570.

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One of the two brothers represented in a Fayum portrait. He was quite a handsome man, if you ask me!

Roman Period, 2nd Century AD

Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

The young men may have been warriors who died together.

#ancient egypt

liskindol

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tag yourself student edition

who cares: reads books in class instead of listening, attention span of 5 seconds when studying, generally starts studying in the day before, lost all their new fancy pens by week 2, still somehow gets A*, sometimes starts arguing with the teacher

i can and i will: motivated af, watches legally blonde 24/7, big dreams and aspirations, bullet journal is goals, sometimes very forgetful but makes up for it through very hard work, wants to figure out everything by themselves before asking for help

hello my name is stressed: signed up for 10000 extracurriculars and can’t get out of them now, time management god, hates the glorification of all-nighters but stays up until 6 am anyway, has the highest expectations regarding themselves, needs a hug

aesthetics TM: desperately wants their notes to look perfect, spends all their money on stationery, loves to doodle, PUNS, is great in one specific class, always tries to help their friends with homework, study playlists!!!, can still easily feel overwhelmed and lost but they try and that’s enough

what: has lost their motivation somewhere along the way, has no idea what’s going on, “there was homework”, messy notes and messy life, really wants school to end, hates the education system, has no idea what they want to do after school tho

#i'm a combination of who cares and hello my name is stressed #you'd say it doesn't work but i do like 15 credits extra each semester and still haven't died

studyskylar

busy week 🐝

#bujo #inspiration

learnign

06.29.17 // the academic year is over, and since i’m about to start using a new bullet journal, i thought i’d share my last one. here’s a snapshot of my favorite spreads this year.

#bujo