#uni problems

[aseaofcoffee]

Sunday, 21st jenuary

(unaesthetic) full day of studying, I'm tired but quite satisfied. Now: rest time!!

[thefruityaquarius]

no one:

me: only refers to uni as ✨acadamia ✨ to make it more romanticized and therefore less hell

[hamletfromspilberg]

My normally: can write a fiction in the length of normal book

My in academic setting: don't know how to write over three pages and get physical pain from writing an email to my professor

[ratatoast]

we live in a society where silly girlies like myself have to choose between a fun and enjoyable degree and a degree that they will be able to make lots of corporate money with, AND IM SICK OF IT !!!!

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

Not to be a whiny bitch, but I want to fist-fight my professors for giving me 2 lengthy essays due on the same day

This is like, my own personal Hell

[eastern-lights]

When you're stressed out about exams so you put on some relaxing music, but now it's just

[another-little-hippie]

im here in the real world talking total bs about doing a dual degree so i can start working on my MLIS blah blah. im a male cow with big ass horns shitting my brains out. i write ONE PARAGRAPH. ONE! and was like, oh that’s nice, now let’s go look at my silly rock and roll star-crossed-lovers on tumblr.

[gummydummy19]

Why is my degree playing hard to get?

[ineedfairypee]

Life of a final year student 🥲

[tinkerbitch69]

My lecturers are trying very hard to get me involved with some kinda civil service work experience and I’m trying very hard not to tell them that I would rather throw myself off the roof then ever work for the government. Especially a Tory one!

[happiness2829]

[aseaofcoffee]

I feel very behind in my study schedule but I still have a week before the exam

my problem is that I create extremely ambitious schedules and it would take the same amount of discipline every day to follow it perfectly

[tyxaar]

Neck deep in semester rn so I haven’t had much opportunity to draw. >~<

[sailforvalinor]

Every university has its thing—apparently mine’s today is multiple spontaneous power outages, dumpster fires, and benches that mysteriously disappear and reappear in odd places

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

Me, receiving a B+ in any other class: :D

Me, receiving a B+ in a class where the minimum is B-: >:(

[eastern-lights]

Eastern Lights’ Guide to Classical Philology Courses

Introduction to Classical Philology - You come to your first class. You are alone. The doors creak. A pile of books enters. “Oh, welcome. I just brought some of the dictionaries I’d recommend getting,” says the prof barely visible behind said pile.

Latin Morphology - You never thought so many suffixes even existed. Turns out the Romans had a verb form expressing a tense you never even heard of.

Latin Syntax - The only place where “I spent the whole night studying all kinds of cum” is not sexual in the least.*

Ancient Greek - lol you thought latin was bad - enjoy learning three asses worth of declensions written in physics formula

Everyday Life in Ancient Rome - You feel kinda bad for the prof with four academic titles having to answer questions like “How did the Romans, like, deal with being gay?”. (The answer was “They had gay sex.”)

History of Ancient Art - witness various artists from multiple cultures go on a millenium long quest to depict the tiniest possible dick. You also get travel recommendations from the prof, down to which metro lines to take.

Greek Mythology - there’s always at least one Percy Jackson smartass who will get their illusions shattered

Greek Literature - go back to a simpler time when “an old lady told me” counted as a valid academic source

Roman Literature - taught by the same man who taught you Intro to Classics and Life in Rome last year. He assumes you’ve become fluent in latin since then. He assumes wrong. He’s not mad, just disappointed.

Reading of Latin Texts - Ovid is the first author you read. Not Caesar. Not Sallust. Fucking Publius Ovidius the-noun-and-the-verb-don’t-even-share-the-same-zip-code Naso. Silver lining is, you now know how to describe a loom in latin.

Interpretation of Latin Texts - Reading on steroids. Taught by the man who taught you Roman Literature. He’s still disappointed. Any attempts to translate Catullus’ profanities with anything less than R-rated language will be taken personally. Leave your euphemisms at the door.

* cum is a conjunction that has a lot of meanings depending on context