I always seem to get fatigued in the middle of a semester, where it's been a while since I've chilled out properly, where it's not new anymore and becomes more of a slog, but the assignments and exams haven't yet piled up so the adrenaline hasn't started pumping yet ( Read more... )

I don't actually want to abandon this journal tbh, and so I will attempt to maintain it for now ( Read more... )

( stay in wonderland instead -- with my zombies and fantasies )

( I have something to say for once... )

More and more I find myself hanging with my friends from the philosophy department and just finding myself generally disliking people related to my study of Japanese. Professors I can't say I have much to say in terms of how much I enjoy/don't enjoy their teaching, because I greatly enjoying learning the language and the professors are great, ( Read more... )

Person-who-I-like not only makes me happy, but also makes me want to work harder and achieve more. I'm surrounded with great friends who I actually like, and who I can connect with ( Read more... )

If one holds a simplistic belief about justice (and we're assuming this belief can be conclusively proven false, given the premises), but isn't in a position where he/she could make any decisions under the framework of this belief... Does it even matter? Obviously, ignorance = bad! But I honestly think Tolkien had the right idea when he wrote the ( Read more... )

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I've been getting stressed for exams lately, as I'm wont to do. But lately I've found a rather odd coping strategy ( Read more... )

All three distinctions come from different areas of thought (philosophy, logic [I hold that it's separate from phil; maybe philosophy and mathematics' lovechild] and programming), but they all make the same distinction. That is, the idea that some thing has the characteristic such that it is that very thing. Variables refer to objects, tokens can ( Read more... )