me: haha oh god this is so bad im making so many unsupported claims and pulling all this analysis out of my ass
my prof in the margins: excellent analysis!
me:
when i was in high school i used to write my papers thinking wow i’m just bullshitting all of this. then like a week before my senior year ended after all the grades were set, i was talking to my english teacher and told him you know i just bullshitted every paper i wrote. he told me that while i may have thought i was just pulling it all out of my ass, i genuinely knew what i was talking about and made well-supported analyses. i only thought i was bullshitting because it didn’t take much effort and it all seemed obvious to me. if you do well on your essays even though you think you’re just making it up as you go, chances are you’re not pulling it out of your ass. you’re just a genuinely talented analyst, even if the analysis that you’re making comes from a subconscious understanding of the material rather than a conscious effort to study it. give yourself some credit.
Report: White Man in Local College Class Will Not Shut the Fuck Up
i really enjoy looking at the tags on this post
Some of my favorites:
Dude-whose-name-I-don’t-remember, who tried to pass off “This Much is True” by Spandau Ballet as a poem he wrote. He’s reciting, and all of us students are looking at each other like, “um, what?” and he finishes, and the teacher launches directly into a critique, rather than letting the class comment. And we’re all waving our hands madly, trying to get the professor to let one of us speak so we can tell him it’s plagiarized, and he says that we can comment once he’s done. So the professor goes on about this and that, and concludes with, “But it doesn’t matter, because you didn’t write that. I’m old, not dead, and I do own a radio.” And DWNIDR tries to argue that he was “merely inspired’ by the song, but that his poem is different and original. Professor gets up and has us recite the lyrics, which he writes on the board, and has DWNIDR write his poem on the board next to it. 100% match. And DWNIDR still insists his version is different. Class ends.
Next class meeting, (this is unplanned) a few of us stand up and recite “poems” that are song lyrics. Professor 100% treats them like original works, and the rest of the class plays along, except DWNIDR, who is outraged at the praise being heaped upon the “stolen words” and keeps trying to explain to the Professor that it’s plagiarism. After the third one, Professor turns to DWNIDR and says, “Well, you’d know, you’re the expert plagiarist here”.
One of the best weeks I had in college, ever.
*sniffle* That is one of the most beautiful stories I have ever read.
Shout out to the guy in philosophy who kept asking unrelated questions.
Also shout out to the anonymous concerned citizen who, after our professor’s heartfelt lecture about poverty then and now (19th century literature) emailed the professor to tell him not to worry, poverty doesn’t exist in our society anymore.
To the dude in my gov class who always had something to say and felt the need to add “It’s peanuts” every time money was mentioned, I hope you get pelted with peanuts by 50 elephants
No amount of ‘hard work’ the 1% has done can justify them hoarding all that wealth when there are people working full time jobs who can’t afford to feed their families
Some earn like 400x what the average worker does, it’s impossible to work that hard, they’re leeches who profit off underpaid labor.
In today’s WWC19 Brazil v Australia game Marta became the World Cup top scorer between men and women along with Germany’s Miroslav Klose. Marta celebrated her 16th World Cup goal pointing to the Go Equal simbol on her boots. Go Equal is a moviment that fights for equality in football, which Marta is an ambassador. Asked about her record Marta said: “New record? This is for the equality of all women. I don’t like to talk, I like to show them.”
gonna try and keep this short & snappy and avoid saying too much about my personal feelings about the video as a whole but when dan howell talked about how people invading his privacy caused him to literally experience PTSD symptoms and painful self-hatred regarding his sexuality i really hope y'all listened because some of you were a part of that and i hope you understand now why you are not entitled to intimate access into the lives of strangers online, no matter how famous they are
