asleepawake

Hahaha &Sorry! I don't mean that any and all uses of them are bad/wrong/naive, I just struggle with taking them completely seriously. I ended up using Moses and Monotheism in that paper if I remember correctly, and it worked out just fine for that assignment. I was just careful to pick and choose sections that I could reconcile with my own argument, which sounds like something I wouldn't do anymore.

wax philosophical

The logic of this statement baffles me. You are so wise to practice what makes sense.

Yes, this. Animal studies high five! I do want to say something straightforward about Freud/Lacan/etc, briefly. I'm not responding to anyone in particular, as I've only just browsed the other comments. Like others, though, I find that much of their work is foundational and thus valuable, but I also cannot help feeling that much of their work delves into the world of pseudoscience. For example, in my first graduate seminar as I was writing my first real seminar paper, I was shocked to have Moses and Monotheism suggested to me as an appropriate source which I should take seriously. I remember writing "discredited!???" in the margins at least a few places. While certainly an interesting read, I couldn't get on board with so much of it. Likewise, I have sat in another seminar while everyone discusses Lacan's mirror stage as if it were a thing, when a basic review of the current science shows he was pretty much making a lot of stuff up. I just can't participate in this discussion earnestly, because there are too many underlying assumptions I find absurd. It has historical importance, and we should read it, but so much of the use of these texts in the humanities seems naive to me. It is true that we ought to be skeptical of "empirical evidence" as the only measure of knowledge-gathering, but I also do not take young Earth creationism as seriously as I do evolution, for example (not to, uh, compare the mirror state to creationism or anything...). Also, I don't have penis envy.

blood feud

bird bath

Straw Man

mini cooper

You can't buy me, hot dog man!

USB port

Just for you:

I got my acceptance a few minutes after midnight. Sorry!

It happens occasionally, but most come in during the week. Go outside and relax!

SMU had a January 15th deadline, no? They aren't a great fit for me but that funding had me constantly toying with the idea of applying... Louisiana State University is open until the 25th, and Cincinnati and U of North Dakota until the 1st.

Congrats, Keely! How exciting!

Congrats nada.am and mostlytoasty!!! Glad to see this thread picking up with acceptances.

I can't up vote this but I WANT TO.

It is way too early to say if you'll get in or not this year! As far as I know, virtually no PhD programs take students in the Spring. There are some MA programs that do, but I doubt they offer competitive funding, if any, at that time. Your best bet would be to work for a year and wait it out if you don't get in this year. Would you want to go to a school that wasn't a good fit for you just because you didn't want to wait 9 months? You'll be in a PhD for a long time, so take your time.

Discipline and Punish works so much better...

Don't grad students do the same thing but with different books?

+ the perfect cadence in my head. Allow me to adjust: I'm okay with Gladwell, though. To me the sentiment of hating "anyone in armchair philosophy or pop philosophy" is basically hate for anyone who engages in philosophical pursuits in an accessible way, or outside of the confines of academic structure. Sure, I see why you might not like some of these folks, but hating all of them is your loss.

You are a poet

AKA "I want to be employed until somebody else starts the revolution thnkx."

I want a job, too!