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tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

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“you should be at the club” i should be by the sea. i should be in the mountains. i should be awestruck and rendered speechless by the majesty of the natural world. if you even care

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Can you explain this gap in your blog history

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Guy who only knows thomas paine from his stay-making career in 1792: hey honey they're having to try the guy who made your bra for sedition and treason in absentia after he fled the country to avoid arrest

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having approached higher education with the basic and incurable attitude that I will do whatever the hell I want whenever I happen to feel like doing it, and with a healthy amount of disrespect for the university as an institution, I still really fucking like it. I think it's neat. people should keep track of everything humans know, and they should keep beautifully organized and maintained archives, and people all over the world should be able to visit that place to speak with other scholars, and the existence of the school should be independent of the fortunes of whatever nation or land hosts it. all humans everywhere should agree by common accord that these places are not to be destroyed. visiting a nice university library is like stepping briefly into a world where that's the case

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citationless behavior

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i think if you like francophone philosophers it's still really crucial that you do not adopt their way of speaking

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thesaurus.com save me

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hm. i feel terrified of everything. surely large ice coffee will ease this terror. surely

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Where did you do your masters? I want to be a research assistant but kinda lost currently :( can you give me some tips

Hi! I don't have a graduate degree yet--currently in the hellish process of applying for them :'). I began working as a research assistant in the second year of my undergraduate studies (which, tbh, is too early) because I thought it sensible to do one of my internships under a professor whose expertise matches with the sub-sub-sub area I want to pursue in grad school. I had taken two classes from him before I applied (so he knew me & my work quite well by that point), and he was already planning to spend the summer finalizing his monograph, so he did not object to having another set of eyes working on it. I began working as an intern, and after the internship period came to an end, we both found it fruitful to continue & turn it into an actual RA position.

That's essentially how I started working as an RA. Obviously, mine is a bit of an exceptional case considering I'm not in grad school, but I'd be happy to further talk about the process & see if I can give any useful advice if you reach out to me via messages! My one big suggestion without knowing you would be to reach out to profs/assistant profs you've taken classes from before to see if they might be interested in having an RA, or to academic libraries/archives for internships/volunteering positions, which might help if any opportunities arise in that direction. Good luck with everything!

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Did you do teacher assistantship?

Hello! My research assistantship, to some extent, involves some elements that fall under the duties of a TA. I've helped create syllabi, compile course packs, figure out dates for exams, etc. My main tasks are always about research, but I do find myself to be a bit of a TA at the beginning of every semester when the work is extra heavy for my prof :) Outside of that, I've never done an "official" teaching assistantship.

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The Night before the Exam by Leonid Pasternak, 1895

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wikipedia Tell me about this man's personal life

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RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

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the holy trinity (archive.org jstor & zlib)

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me looking at my research, my research looking at me, me looking at my research, my research looking at me, me looking at my resea

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Contrary to what many sites seem to believe using a vpn is not illegal