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tagrendar

First day (yay)

Jan 05, 2006 17:24

First day of grad school today was fairly....anticlimatic? I'm taking two grad classes this semester -- European Thought and Ideology, 1797-Present and The Reformation. These classes require me to be on campus for about 95% of the daylight hours (potentially longer on Thursdays). One's at 10, the other's at 1. Both seem like they're going to be ( Read more... )

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iria_2001 January 6 2006, 01:25:44 UTC

*dies*
thomas mann?
i love thomas mann.
term paper topic: death, beauty, martyrdom and patriotism:P death in venice and other stories:PPPP
where are u now? OU? wazzat?
im insanely jealous of ur educational experiences. must...live...vicariously...thru...someone...

meowgurlgv January 6 2006, 02:20:50 UTC

the reformation class seems to follow right along the lines of coolidges witchcraft and reformation classes in one...
funny funny..
really.
Good luck with grad school..
also my dumb brother is at oakland a lot if you need to know where something is let me know :)

missazrael January 6 2006, 17:32:57 UTC

Buy your books off www.half.com. You'll get gouged at the bookstore, and if you buy them online, you'll save literally about half your money.

Trust me on this one.

alexg2490 January 7 2006, 18:40:01 UTC

Well, for Nationalism, it really depends on if the focus of the class is the willingness to sacrifice yourself for your country, or the belief that your country is better than everyone else's. If it's the latter, you could do the Nazis or the Middle Eastern conflicts, but those are getting rather tired. What about PERCEIVED Nationalism - the way a lot of people think Americans are stuck up and think they're better than everyone else, which really isn't the case? I don't know if there's a lot you could say on the matter, but it seems like you could go several directions with it.

tagrendar January 7 2006, 18:42:03 UTC

Alex, dear, it's my term paper. Focus of the class isn't on nationalism at all, it's on European thought and ideology since 1797.

So....yeah. America is out, and so is the middle east.

alexg2490 January 7 2006, 18:46:15 UTC

"Term paper topic: Something on nationalism"

I get easily distracted by simple things. I like things to be simple. And I have a tendancy to latch onto the one simple sentence in a sea of stuff I don't really get.

So, whoops :)