#Liberal Arts

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[sage-green-kitchen]

I have a liberal arts degree which means I also have a favorite citation style and hate the other ones. If you know you know.

[belle-keys]

And a reminder that higher education cannot be considered truly democratised if students can still be doomed to poverty with multiple or advanced arts and Humanities degrees...

[peanut-studies-psych]

second year of uni has started in full swing!

went through personality theories for my personality psych assignment

made a cute study set up <3

(tried) to start my biological bases of behaviour course's assignment by reading the assigned research article

did a mini art project for said biological bases course because ✨why not✨

[silverystardustt]

At its core, every piece of media we ever have consumed and ever will consume — whether it’s art, music, books, movies — is fundamentally about love, or the lack of it.

it’s an inescapable facet of human life. it could be about the love you have for people in your life, or how much you hate your job, or love your city, but the love is always there.

[unlirise]

i started using the pomodoro technique today and i'm proud of the amount of progress i made especially for the tasks i assigned myself. i'm still recovering from academic burnout so the progress i'm making with my thesis is slow. but, some progress is better than no progress at all!

i encountered some issues with my scope and limitations which forced me to re-pivot. as a result, i had to revise chapter 1 and 3, and i was able to do the former.

the university errand i had to run gave me an opportunity to go to the library. most of the time, a change of space is all i need to actually get some work done. it really is true that you associate certain spaces with rest and others with work. as much as i want the dorm to be a place of productivity for me, it just wasn't going to happen. i always play games, watch movies, and rest on my bed. the library and the dorm's study area, on the other hand, were places i always went to when i want to make significant progress on my academic commitments. those were the two places i mostly stayed in, which helped me to cross off those items on my daily to-do list. so now, this is what the list looks like:

rise's tuesday tasks:

ask for tutorial form from the registrar

finish revising chapter 1 of my thesis

annotate areas for revision in chapter 3

batch cook pasta for the week

on top of that, i was able to do some extra reading on the conventions of policy analysis! those are the notes that you see above. my thesis is essentially a policy analysis with how i'm looking at the effectiveness of the execution of national protocol. reading through it, it made me consider a career as a policy analyst. i want to practice writing policy-analytic papers and see if it's something that resonates with me. beyond graduation, i'm still majorly unsure about what i want to become. i want to keep my options open.

[catandgirlcomic]

Slime to student ratio

[emilydickinsonsghost]

Do it for the aesthetic. Romanticize your life.

Be as obnoxious and pretentious as you like. Read for pleasure and only study what truly interests you.

Change your major 5 times and never graduate.

Idolize dead authors and completely lose your grip on reality.

Do some acid and have a bacchanal in the woods.

It’s fun you should try it!

(Henry Winter ghostwrote this post, I guess. I speak from experience though, it IS fun, you SHOULD try it)

[hamletthedane]

Weird hill I’ll die on - the liberal arts equivalent of STEM really should be SHARP:

Social Sciences (economics, polysci, sociology, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, law)

Humanities (literature, history, language, library science, etc)

Arts (visual arts, performance arts, music)

Religious studies & Philosophy

[azuremallone]

[enlitment]

Tell me you're a Liberal Arts major without telling me you're a Liberal Arts major:

[sage-green-kitchen]

You have to be a little bit crazy to be an academic

[i-am-fucked]

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Why is she so 🤌🏻 ughhh

🥹🥹🥹

[peanut-studies-psych]

I JUST GOT THIS MAIL

slayed a little too hard🤭

not letting this get to my head tho, because there's still a long long way to go ofcourse

but the fact that i was amongst the top 10% in a batch of 750 students is so academically validating😭