Comments | zubird: do haje

zubird

do haje

Dec 17, 2005 19:45

all last night i spent in the library; i left at 10:00 AM, took a shower, slept for 2 hrs and dreamt about finishing my drawings and the paper i'm writing about the migration/transfer of Slovak Roma into the Czecho-places during communism [this paper has been eating my life, i've been reading and translating reams and reams of legal documents in ( Read more... )

dustbin

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roomforhonesty December 18 2005, 03:16:34 UTC

I find all of this strange, as I've never gotten that impression from academia.

zubird December 18 2005, 03:25:01 UTC

eh, i don't know; maybe you're just better adapted to it than i am.

oihanen January 17 2006, 03:04:59 UTC

comestible December 18 2005, 06:13:18 UTC

yr frustration is in part due to the separation of the external and internal goods of academia. this distinction can applied to many areas of life, but is mainly exemplified in texts by way of the academic system ( ... )

zubird December 20 2005, 06:44:14 UTC

no, not at all.
on the other hand, it isn't that i'm not interested in external goods. i certainly want rank, money, power blah blah as much as anyone else. it's just that for me, that desire is entirely separate from the desire to learn. or something like that -- i'm really not entirely sure.