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anjenue

[still alive, i see.]

Aug 26, 2006 17:11

So this post is woefully belated, but HI FLIST!!! I am alive and in a hotel in Santa Fe. I'm staying here for another week and a half except for three days next week when I'll be back in Toronto (I get in Tuesday evening, oversee the movers on Wednesday, and fly back eeeeeeeeearly Thursday morning so I can be back for class on time, after spending ( Read more... )

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heidi8 August 27 2006, 00:59:44 UTC

1. The reading list sounds amazing.

2. This is the second post on the first page of my flist to include mentions of shiraz. I should go have a glass of it with some chocolate...

anjenue August 29 2006, 14:53:43 UTC

1. Oh, I know, right? It is a LOT of reading, to be sure, but I'm so excited!

2. I'd actually never had it before, but it is zomgsogood!

danbi August 27 2006, 03:37:41 UTC

That drive sounds like so much fun. Especially the detour. Really inspires me to take a drive around, once I get a car, and try to see more of the United States. I've seen countries but not paid much attention to my home, as it were. I'd love to see more stuff like the scenery you describe. Sounds awesome ( ... )

anjenue August 29 2006, 14:55:44 UTC

It was amazing! I've never been much of a long-distance driver -- I have a terrible tendency to fall asleep on the road -- but this time it was actually a really nice experience. And yeah, you gain a lot more appreciation for things when you're the one doing the driving.

I'm totally going to do the discussion thing. I may actually make a post before I hop on the plane and see what people have to say when I come back. Grad school is very stressful, but St John's actually doesn't evaluate on grades so much -- there aren't assignments, per se, just oral progress reports with your teachers.

sherlell August 27 2006, 05:46:04 UTC

glad to see you made it to santa fe safely!

oh, Kant. you are my nemesis. i had a very similar reading list for the philosophy course everyone has to take at Columbia when i was an undergrad, and dude. everybody else i could pretty much get a handle on, but Kant. maybe b/c he's german, i don't know. but i didn't understand a goddamn thing he wrote. however, other people seemed to get it, so it can't be too bad. :)

and machiavelli is just the best. so great.

and bring on the school related stuff!!! i'm going to be applying for PhDs this fall, so i'm all for hearing about the school!

*hugs*

anjenue August 29 2006, 14:57:00 UTC

OMG I am so scared of Kant! I remember touching on him a bit in highschool Humanities, but like...a whole book! Granted, it's ickle, but still! I've heard nothing but horror stories.

I LOVE Machiavelli. I've read it before, but that doesn't make it any less exciting.

Oooooh! I saw that you had a list of like...three schools, was it? Have you added any more?

sherlell August 29 2006, 18:50:58 UTC

it's really impressive how such a small book can inspire so much fear. oh well. even if you don't quite get the Kant, there's always someone around who does. and you can lean on them for help. that's how i dealt with it ( ... )

meredyth_13 August 27 2006, 10:21:18 UTC

See? This is why I should catch up on my flist BEFORE pinging when I finally get a moment on line. So much to talk about - the course sounds fantastic, although that's a SHITE load of reading, and some of it looks very dry. But the interaction, the ability to take your own ideas forward and develop and present them? Brilliant!

I look forward to your school posts - I might even learn something. :D

anjenue August 29 2006, 14:57:48 UTC

Hahahah it's all good! :D It is a shiteload of reading, but I'm so excited about it. I like the idea of finally feeling smart instead of pretending to be smart. And the discussions thus far have been AMAZING.

egalite August 27 2006, 22:19:57 UTC

Wow, I am SO jealous of your program!! That sounds SO interesting.

I am glad you made it there. And I'm really looking forward to hearing all about how school progresses.

anjenue August 29 2006, 14:59:19 UTC

It is really interesting! It's all based on the idea of Roman education, which is the very interactive type of forum learning; it's a bit flawed in that it kind of neglects the last hundred or so years of discovery, and thus if you're in something like one of the sciences where it's all about the up-and-coming, it doesn't help you much, but it definitely gives you a very firm grounding in the Classics, which, when you're in Humanities, is a very very important thing. :D