applications complete: 2 of 5
GREs: thanks to dad, signed up for nov. 11
letters of recommendation: working today on the first of 3
application fees: OUCH
letter of intent: 90% done

I can't believe I never had to read Zizek in all of my religion courses. Just started The Puppet and The Dwarf. it gets right at some central issues of modernity ( Read more... )

OK so that's it, I am going back to finish my doctorate.  I'll apply first at the closest schools (madison, chicago) and work my way out.

Unless anybody has any advice and good departments these days?

PREFACE

the quote Foucault begins with bears reproducing.  he wants to demonstrate how systems of organizing are cultural, even though ours may seem natural and objective to us.  he quotes Borges, who found the following classification system for animals in an old Chinese encyclopedia: "animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) ( Read more... )