It had a quotation about advising people on graduate school that I thought was smart but that bothered me in the end. I killed it by mistake but perhaps that was a good thing. I am going to stop railing about academic advice because in the end it is a personal issue, I am talking … More In which I find I have inadvertently killed a post
And this is the other thing I do not understand about academia, our duty to be in academia, and so on. All I ever heard about were the things you may not do if you are a professor. You may not: * desire to live somewhere pleasant, that you have any part in choosing * … More You may not
And look at this. Kansas already has a freely accessible website for second year Spanish, and Florida will have one for the first year soon. Also look at this. I would so like to work on a big, modern campus that had such things. I should arrange to visit Austin soon. I am so glad … More Openstax
I also see perfectly what I was trying to make a radical break from and why, at a psychological level, it was virtually impossible to keep working in that field. Yes, in the best of all possible worlds one could have done it but it was far more realistic to switch. And what I considered … More And also
To write, you have to feel comfortable and allow yourself authority. (You are also best not suffering sharp pain, and your mind must be clear.) It helps also if it is what you want to do. I wanted to do it for a long time or was happy to do it. For a long time … More And again
But really, I find everything is fine and people including me think of things in too fraught a way. If you have any trouble academia is not for you, or if it is not the only thing for you then you are a traitor to the cause, it is said. Why is loyalty coerced in … More Everything is fine
You cannot do it while tearing yourself down. I told Reeducation I could not afford the kind of self destruction it wanted and I was right. I told the academic advisors that my problem was not not knowing how to write but having had my hands cut off, as it were, and they did not … More More on how to write
This film is like an art installation. Axé.
The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. That’s different. And this is a different attitude from the baroque desengaño but I would like to re-study some baroque literature now. Axé.
I have not read this book, but should have done, and it is here. Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 