When the bourgeoisie think they’re the proletariat

How I see myself in academe

I’m going to start referring to arguments as “voice exchanges”

State of the Field

When you finish a satisfying run through a rage aria

Sometimes it’s just nice to be enraged.

Adjunctification can adjunctifuck off. ☮️

When you’re a in a professional setting outside your institution, so you refer to one of your faculty members by their first name instead of the Dr. So-and-so name you usually call them

Bonus points if it’s not even their legal first name, but the shorter version they go by with all the other aCtUaL aDuLtS.

• I’d just like to give a shout out to all those faculty who are in a position to comfortably allow students to call them by their first name on the regular, thus negating this issue altogether. (There are plenty of legitimate, non-elitist reasons that this is not always possible, though.)

Working outside in some classic English weather

Moved into Cambridge to actually start grad school sunday :) finally think im used to the time difference after 2 days of my brain feeling like mushy peas

Hegel writes like a maniac with a manifesto why did we put this man in the canon again?

Venmo $20 to @Brandi-Jane for my Private snapchat

Pandemic-University Gothic

You ask another student where to find a specific building. They’re as lost as you despite being a year ahead of you in school.

You ask a senior about that building. They’ve never even heard of it. The TA tells you it changed names over the previous year but nobody remembered to announce it

The bathroom stall is almost clean of graffiti, except for the Bernie 2020 bumper sticker that looks fresh and untouched. You realize this was pasted on before Bernie Sanders announced his withdrawal from the presidential primary race.

There are brand new automatic hand sanitizer pumps at every building entrance, but the bathroom has run out of soap in every dispenser.

It’s several weeks into the semester when you see your favorite classmate take off their mask to take a sip of their water. They yawn as they unscrew the cap and you get a view of five dozen sharp sharp teeth. You blink. You don’t know what’s worse: that you forgot that people have mouths behind their masks that you’ve never seen and never think about, or that your brain is finally so fried from late nights that you’re seeing things

The stranger at the student store is talking to you as if you’ve known each other for months. They mention something your professor did the other day in class and you realize you’ve been sitting two seats down from them all semester. They always wear masks with colorful patterns, but today they’re wearing a plain paper mask. You know you’re face blind and the mask situation has only made things worse. You didn’t realize until today that you’ve learned to compensate for it by memorizing people’s custom masks.

Halfway through the semester you realize you got too used to seeing people’s names on Zoom and now you have no idea what your favorite classmate’s name is.

Halfway through the semester, you’re in the same bathroom stall, surrounded by flyers and stickers advertising campus events and new clubs, and underneath the Bernie 2020 sticker is “I need socialism because my classroom doesn’t have windows that can open in the middle of a pandemic!”

amargedom:

““Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.””

— Dalai Lama
(vianaturaekos)

mindfulawareness:

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

wordsnquotes:

“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”

— Marc Jacobs

purplebuddhaquotes:

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

— John Lubbock