oh philosophy

[onyxzeconqueror]

i have a real love/hate relationship with philosophy.

sometimes when i'm doing it i can have the most surreal, sublime moments. a piece of writing about life or causality, about absurdity or the way we think about ourselves as being selves can be the most beautiful thing to me. and at other times it's all just one giant headache

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[aussie_songbook]

I guess it will come as no great surprise that I'm madly, hopelessly, embarrassingly in love with my Modern History major. I went into it as a first year because it was the only thing I could see myself sticking with for any extended period of time; four years later, and I can't get enough of it. I lucked out - I fell into something that turned out to be absolutely perfect for me, and I appreciate how rare that is.

It terrifies me that this could all come to an end this year, if I don't get into the PhD program + APA/MQRES scholarship. But even then, I'm so devoted to my silly little subset of humanities that I'll probably end up doing anything to stay - a Masters, or research work, or sit-in protest in the ModHist lobby until they let me in!

TL;DR - Bec and Modern History, sittin' in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

[aussie_songbook]

Not to say that I don't have those "FUCK THIS AND THE HORSE IT RODE IN ON" moments, too. But I think those sublime moments that you talked about more than make up for the headache-inducing nonsense that we wade through.

[chiana606]

Being an English lit major at an all women's university was awesome. I got to major in my hobby -- reading books, most of which were really girly classics, which fits my taste exactly. At such a point as I go for my masters, it will probably be in something more career oriented, though.

[whispered_envy]

When I first started development studies, I was feeling all positive and optimistic about saving the world. But then it got more and more depressing when it was all "they tried this but that didn't work, then they tried this but that didn't work either, now they are trying this but that's not really working either". So for a while there I was wondering if it was really worth it. Then it sort of dawned on me that even if there are issues with the industry, there still needs to be people who want to achieve change, or else things will never improve. So that's what I hold onto now.

That being said, one of my tutors said the other day that aid organisations are really big on presentations, which is kind of scary considering I hate public speaking. Oh well, if I'm really not happy/struggling, then I will just turn to my back up plan of doing a postgrad to become a librarian.

[spiritsound]

Well as of tomorrow I will have finished a year of optom, which is the longest I've stayed in anything. Ironically I kind of find myself wishing I'd stuck with the music and got it out of the way, but at the same time I know I hated that. I'm liking optom, it's nice to have a challenge and meet some smart people :)

I'm so proud of you being almost finished!!!