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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
“Winning the Game of School,” is one of the craziest Everything Is Terrible videos I’ve ever seen, and I’ve watched a lot of them. Usually I at least get a sense of why the video exists, but I honestly can’t wrap my brain around who thought this was material worth teaching.
Here’s a teaser - “There’s actually a fine art to raising your hand.”
The first time I saw this, I remember thinking the same sorts of things. There’s a joke and a remark for everything said in this video. One of the most Terrible Everythings, for sure.
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find the inner motivation to search for new ideas on your own. With any luck at all, you’ll never need to take an idea and squeeze a punchline out of it, but as bright, creative people, you’ll be called upon to generate ideas and solutions all your lives. Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
Bill Watterson (via calvinnhobbes)
How? Just…how? I am reposting this in the morning because people legitimately need to know about this. I’m on the same quarter system, and I will likely never take more than 20 credit-hours in one quarter.
My excuse is that I wasn’t a fucking millionaire celebrity. James Franco is the star quarterback of college. He sure is pretty, but gimme a break.
We were there at the same time. He was doing independent study in the film school or some shiz. It wasn’t like he was sitting through 2-hour Economic Theory lectures. (Trust me, because I was and I didn’t see no James Franco)
Which doesn’t mean he wasn’t still doing a lot of work. I hope I don’t step on any toes when I assume that Economic Theory would be a boring lecture to sit through. And film classes and whatever else he took would likely be more involved. But it’s not a competition to see which class is harder to pay attention in.
I know you aren’t pulling the “art kids are lazy because creativity isn’t really work” card, but it happens, and it’s disheartening. The out-of-work novelist and starving artist are archetypes that get romanticized by lazy people who want to be considered tortured souls. Art isn’t a 9-to-5 job and can’t be depended on to pay the bills, so you need to put in your time and work on your craft when you can.
James Franco, of course, doesn’t have to. Maybe you honestly think he didn’t have to put in much effort in those 62 credit-hours (I don’t know what that means… hours per week?) Maybe you could consider him the star quarterback of college. But that seems to stem from a sense of bitterness, which in turn is predicated on the idea that school is about the GPA and the degree. And if that is all you want out of school, then I understand why it would bother you that a famous dude did a shitload of schoolwork while filming popular movies and did pretty well. Quite frankly franco-ly, it’s not fair.
But it’s also not fair to dismiss somebody for going to school when he really didn’t have to. He wanted to. For some mad reason, he had a burning desire to learn… whatever he learned - for the sake of the knowledge.
A degree? It’s a piece of paper that used to guarantee you a job. Then, it at least kept you a step ahead of the incoming workforce. Now it’s the new high-school diploma, a redundant standard with no real advantage. This poster actually kinda misses the point, too, but it’s an advertisement, not a long-winded blog post (ahem).
Everyone who gets a post-secondary education does it for their own personal reasons. If it’s something you need, there’s no faulting you for it. And if it’s something you want, do it gladly. A passion for learning is a beautiful thing. Even in beautiful famous people who star in movies where they cut their own arm off.
(Source: kevinless)
While the States are all in a tizzy about their midterm elections, the negotiations at my school go on past the strike deadline.
That’s a good sign, I think. Hopefully they get shit sorted out. I have class tomorrow.
I should check if I have anything due in that class. Hm.
But most of all, I hope the faculty gets a little more freedom than what I hear they are getting. Administration is one thing, but school is school, yo.
And that is about as informed as I am on the situation.
“The Captcha of a Generation” — somethingchanged
Yep.
CAPTCHA HALF-EMPTY.
Seems about right.
Pictured: my university career. And the fact that this thing has 10,000+ notes/reblogs as of right now tells you something about our work habits, don’t it?
