#Liberal Arts

[dark-wackademia]

I put a similar one in my presentation on saving liberal arts/classics!

[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.

[imawitchywitch]

Keep studying. Keep planning for that liberal arts degree. Keep attending your classes. Keep studying, because someone needs to know this information and have those skills so we can rebuild. Your degree and field of study is being attacked because of its significance for humanity. Your degree needs you. Your colleges need you. Our future needs you.

[thebellekeys]

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...

[apis-vergilii]

The study of the humanities is a training ground for the mind and the development of critical thought, self-knowledge, a deeper understanding of one’s own ethical values, and an appreciation of the shared humanity of those removed from oneself by either temporal or geographical distance. These are not idle theoretical fripperies: they are the foundation of curiosity, compassion, and responsible citizenship.

<piss on the poor>There are indeed many pathways to this knowledge. Yes, go to the library and the museum. No, not everyone needs to get a degree in medieval literature. Everyone SHOULD study at least some history and literature in high school and college.</piss on the poor>

The fact that the serious pursuit of humanist studies has been deliberately made *economically inaccessible* to something like 95% of the human population, and entirely generations of people have been deliberately trained to consider these subjects laughable and worthy only of mockery and disdain (and the first subjects to remove from formal curricula) is a catastrophic injustice on a planetary scale.

[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.

[threeofsswords]

“Majoring in gender studies to become a barista”

The right’s notion that the humanities are unimportant compared to stem ultimately comes down to the fact that there’s less money in those fields. Capitalism breeds anti intellectualism

[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.

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Grammar

Artist: Laurent de La Hyre (French, 1606–1656)

Date: 1650

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

This painting is one of a series depicting the Seven Liberal Arts, which represent disciplines associated with learning and language – grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy – as half-length figures of women. Grammar is shown as a woman watering plants, conveying the idea that young minds need encouragement to develop and grow. The Latin inscription on the scroll can be translated as ‘A meaningful and literate word spoken in the correct manner’.

La Hyre’s figure imitates classical sculpture: her drapery appears solid and is arranged in crisp, overlapping folds. Further references to the classical age can be seen in the column and ornate urn.

La Hyre was probably inspired by Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia, an illustrated dictionary in which ideas were represented through images of people. The French edition was published in 1644, about five years before the artist began his series.

[areallyuniquename]

[moonageromantic]

I'm only capable of reading poetry, screenplays, and energy drink prices.

[victusinveritas]

[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)