Brown University (2023-2024)

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i wrote about fruit

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nvm

💀

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fire

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fax

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mine was bland

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its my fav supplemental

ive recylced it for like 6 other schools

XD

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fr i be doin that

brown was my first school

so i recycled the 7 supplements 50 times

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my first school was an instate safety

but yea

same

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!brown

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stop

my fav supplement is what i do for fum

or what brings me joy right

i wrote abt my pet rock in the woods named lumpy

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mine was about anime openings HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA IM SO FUCKED

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blud how is that any worse than a pet rock

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Nah what

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idk i hope the AO is a weeb or wallahi im finished

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in my video i told them to recruit me to the valorant esports team

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based.

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i wrote abt making jewelry

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i didnt want to talk about league of legends ngl

💀

im not about to go that far incriminating myself

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thats a chill one

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bro

they prob think im a fatass

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ay bro

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I'm here to ruin y'all's days

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i talk abt food in my supps twice and in my video

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too bad im A2C Winner

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Can't find the exact font they used

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i shitposted this one about yale but

this is me from brown soon

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we dont talk about league

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brown will not be knowing about league

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LoL

!

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bro scared me ngl

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oh i did too

my essay abt food

and my video

but im mad underweight lmao

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Mine was about having cold hands so I couldn’t play piano 😢

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💀 nah but i know what u mean.

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damn that sucks

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i’m buff

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what way do u mean that

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i go to the gym :D

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i have never gone to the gym

well not before this swimming season

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i don’t need the gym

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my school team is making me fucking gymmaxx

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i do 2 varsity sports and i suck at bof of them

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the bastards know i can't bench more than 70

but they're making me gymmaxx.

d i s p l e a s u r e

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i get the benefit of going to nowhere highschool so when i throw 115ft at discus throw thats considered championship level

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W

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free ah common app ec

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i'm gonna drop an easter egg here for y'all actually

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woahj

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shhhhh

don't let anyone else find out

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every one of those people is me

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when i get rejected i fr wont be able to show my face in here

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when i get rejected fr im going to CARRY THE BOATS

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next level embarrasment

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idfk what i even mean by that

but im going to bounce the fuck back.

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i got rejected from brown because they wanted to save me a special spot at brown 2 deluxe

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💀

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OMG

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they fr yield protected u so the new model of their school can pick u up

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manifesting

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literally

they been scouting me out in my emails for months

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sylvia is like the fairy god mother of this chat atp haha

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i got rejected from uchicago because they wanted me to go to brown

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yk how many password emails ive gotten?????

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"can't leave this bastard to rot in the dregs of our old school send him to brown2"

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Battle of the quirky schools

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they want me to change my password cuz too many opps wanna be me

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upgrades people

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You weren’t quirked up enough

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#9 > #12

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uchicago messed up dang

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tbh i think i'm more of a quirky uchicago nerd than a brown student

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(jk uchicago if i don't get into brown your institution looks very nice)

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but then again that's like the two sides of who i am

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when brown sent me the email telling me to watch the zoom abt pre-college programs i knew they wanted me that bad

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quirky nerd obsessed with humanities and a queer poet who sometimes likes to be funny

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very brown

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💀

brown is less humanities than people think

due to the overwhelming amount of cs kids

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isnt the third biggest major app math and cs

yea

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top 3 are cs apma econ

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is it bad that i was like "wow. brown is like, gay." and then decided that this would be a good fit 💀

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it's fucking stupid

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this is the way tho

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i thought about it further than that afterward but uh

admittedly

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oh you'll fit in wonderfully

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first thought!

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school is gay -> it's go-time

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how many straight white dudes are there

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stonewall is awesome even though i've never gone in but the community is very supportive

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one too many (any is too many)

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https://tenor.com/view/cringe-eeee-gif-24636179

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there's a decent bit of straight white frat bros tbh due to athletes

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conversely the only impression i have of upenn is this one 6'3" straight cis white finance bro 💀

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imma be so queer in college BWAHAHAHA

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as well as finance bros

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fantastic ill fit right in!! (i will not be fratting or athleticing)

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yeah it's mostly like finance bros and future doctors/lawyers/politicians

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frats r so fucking scary?

💀

idk

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brown frats are fine tbh since there's like no real traditional frats

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i've jhust heard a lot of bad things about certain frats

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HELP. only upenn person i know is from the dentistry school which is...not very representative lmao

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there's a queer frat actually and i've heard that they're nice

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state school frats

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my sister goes to swarthmore and like

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https://tenor.com/view/explosion-mushroom-cloud-atomic-bomb-bomb-boom-gif-4464831

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apparently there was a frat that just

called their attic the ||r***|| attic

for obvious reasons

and it wa sjust fucked

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sounds like a state school

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sounds right

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and students protested and stuff

and the administration fucking called the cops on them

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sounds like avoid the attic and youll be ok

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🤦

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oh is this swarthmore

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bro 💀 ppl dont go to the attic 4fun

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this was on the news

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yes

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I thought swarthmore was nice dang

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yeah oh lord

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every college has its stuff

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idk im really fucking scared of that

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and then they punished the protestors lmfao

smart admin

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ye

according to them (my sister) like

they market it as them being super receptive now

now that they had to remove the frats

average administration

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brown is fine i think

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🙏

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there are frat bros here but

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idk i know im overreacting but it's just really scary what i hear about frats

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as long as you protect yourself (which you shouldn't have to in the first place) you're gonna be fine

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bc there's that and then that famous story about the dartmouth frats

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men are fucked anyway, this place is lesbian paradise

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if u are scared of frats simply do not partake

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my bad boss

ik

i mean frats are why i'm very apprehensive abt places like dartmouth

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https://tenor.com/view/finish-him-final-blow-punch-fight-boxing-gif-13573989

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have you heard of what harvard frats do

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no

do those ppl even do anything 💀 i thought they were too busy math 55ing

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they ship girls in from other colleges like northeastern and emerson and etc to balance their ratio at parties

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makes sense

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this was years ago i think but yeah harvard men have something about that lmfao

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imports

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bro shipped in the latest models

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this is gonna make the rejection harder to bear

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importing talent

💀

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thas a little nuts

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this makes my rejection a little more okay

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i'm sorry that applying as a woman to brown is about twice as hard as applying as a man 💀

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i just need to not lose this energy until it's past friday

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https://tenor.com/view/rocky-winning-gif-14332927

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i'll beat the odds fr

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im rly fucking high on the energy rn

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according to cds, 67% of applicants are women and 33% are men, but the acceptances are 50-50

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energy from sleeping more than 3 hours

oh

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you got this!

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💀

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i did all that math out

ed for men acceptance rate is 21.7%

women its more like 11

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bro ran the numbers tf

oh

that's kind of massive wtf

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this isn't ed i think this was overall

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that fucking sucks actually wow 💀

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yea overall too

but i took the ratios and applied it to ed

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🐸

does it hold?

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yea

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or do they have diff practices for ED

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like 21%

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same men and women

way more women applied

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fall 2022 stats

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simple mathematics really

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dunno why the cds for this year isn't up yet

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allat math to get rejected

[rich mist]

Wait that’s interesting I wonder why the ratio is so big

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more women apply to college than men as of recent

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being a woman at brown is pretty nice tbh

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i think it's bc one of the schools where u have reason to believe that u won't get hatecrimed for being a woman 💀

well less reason to believe

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most of the hate crimes that happen here are due to... international politics reasons

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would you say brown is more work than social or more social than work

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oh

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or 50 50

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jesus

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I wanna go to brown cuz it’s gay af

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depends on who you are, i'd say it's a play hard work hard type of thing for most people

but then for losers like me i mostly work and have fun on my own than social

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Also providence seems cute

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AO REAL

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social scene is quite good though, work is also fun (for me)

[rich mist]

And open curriculum 😋

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cozy town!

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what do u do

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for common majors it's more social than work imo

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brown seems like the best place for "idfk what i'm doing so i'm going to figure out what i want to do"

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philosophy / lit arts

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like work i mena lol

but nice

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i got to decide what i'm gonna do for a final project for a philosophy class

so of course i decided to write a parody of the bible according to jean-paul sartre's existentialist philosophy

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i took a philosophy and reasoning course once

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which i should be doing right now actually

[rich mist]

How’s the phil dept

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sheesh

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all i remember was a dude eating puppies’ brains

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it's AWESOME

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isn't brown humanities kind of a mammoth

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a bit more analytic than continental for me but they are very stacked

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I wanna phil major 🥺

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hi guys new here

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we also have a leading kant scholar and a leading nietzsche scholar

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bro has the representative m&m color pfp

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definitely double major it with something else

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hi

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exactly

[rich mist]

Yeah fs i was thinking physics

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i dont wanna go to bed cuz ill be one day closer

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physics + phil is a concentration i'm pretty sure

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wait what

college board website

😐

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combined 14 course concentration? i remember checking it out

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React to vote to reject Aka:

🔴 for reject
🔵 for reject but make it blue

[rich mist]

That sounds cool

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it's fun to think about but once i get to the writing who knows

are you into phil?

if you are you can check out the phil courses they have for spring 2024 and woah it is fun

on cab

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alr bye

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take care

🫵

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i dont read

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love you

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same i am illiterate

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yo thats crazy me too

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...stem students?

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we got alot in common no cap

[rich mist]

Yuppp
Ive been trying to get through Kierkegaard’s either/or

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yeahh

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we should go out fr

[rich mist]

It’s heavy but the literary elements are awesome

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oh god kierkegaard hahahah

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oh yeah

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do you find his writing style tough?

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my first writing course will be the end of me at brown

thats not true actually

[rich mist]

Yeah its cerebral at times but also very engaging and poetic

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i've heard some people say they love his style while others saying that they can't bear reading him

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my first READING course will be the end of me

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i hope i get to take a lot of writing classes 💀

my ass is going to learn how to read and write

[rich mist]

Will do

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im not about to graduate from college being an illiterate bastard

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i got a 5 on AP lang

idk how

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continental trait! i like his way of writing in that lineage of kierkegaard / nietzsche / heidegger

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congrats

💀

take the W man

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i like literally donnow how

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writing workshops?

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the girl in my school applying to brown ed in literature and creative writing got a 3 in lang

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also i will say though

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Haven’t gotten too far info nietzsche yet :/, I have beyond good and evil on hold though

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the average writing level here is slightly disappointing but maybe that's just me

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stem kids outworking the writers

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stem

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beyond good and evil is extremely tough to read for a first nietzsche work, i learned that the hard way

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how good are brown's courses for ppl who don't have a solid grasp of writing

like

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i come from a stem background

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if i want to get good enough to be a reasonably strong writer for whatever things i need to do day-to-day later

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fair enough

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my ass needs to learn how to communicate

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depends on which sort of writing, i think designated writing courses are usually structured quite well, library has a writing center which helps a lot for those who don't write much or struggle to produce writing, they're an awesome resource and i think i might want to volunteer/work there

[rich mist]

Do you have a different recommendation then? 🙏
I’ve read a bit of secondary stuff on his work

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but if you're speaking more in terms of creative workshops, they're quite hard to get into (LITR classes), since they're either lottery classes with only 17 spaces which are hard to get early as freshmen, or classes that require writing samples

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oh

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about to show them the abomination that i call a writing sample

idk i think english classes can be fun but i'm dogshit at them LOL

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i like arguement writing

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im not gonna bullshit everything is fun

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if you have really good secondary guidance for his tougher works (beyond good and evil, thus spoke zarathustra, genealogy of morals), then i think you can go for them, but in that case you'd end up doing far more secondary reading than nietzsche's content itself

r/nietzsche on reddit has some good guides, personally i think starting with birth of tragedy or will to power helps

birth of tragedy is awesome

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it's over 0 decisionmaking time when i find out that english, history, arts, math, and sciences are all fun

[rich mist]

Okay, thanks!!

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also use and abuse of history? he's strongest with humanities analysis

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you'll still have your calling

[rich mist]

This is why you’re applying to brown 🙂

[mystic meteor]

it is

if i get in i'm about to thoroughly use everything this place has to offer 💀

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lemme send something here

for funny purposes

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including the bubble tea

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gonna send this for writing sample for next semester

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💀

this might be the shit

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(for those wondering, i do actually know what nietzsche meant when he claimed God is Dead, i just found a way to amuse myself with this)

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ikr it's hilarious

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i unfortunately can't appreciate this as much as i should be able to

[rich mist]

LMAO

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my older sister could tho

they're the uh

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it's so fucking stupid

but hilarious

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happier and more humanities version of me

🤨 causation?

[rich mist]

Average Nietzsche interpretation

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every 14 year old be like

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not really

i'm a humanities nerd

and i'm not mentally well probably

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oh

on that front actually

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actually maybe that's due to my stem background

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how robust is brown's mental health support

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people diss CAPS all the time

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oh no

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and i did too because of how long it takes to schedule

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oh

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but i think i got really lucky with my therapist

[rich mist]

They just hand you a joint /s

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since she's wonderful

honestly that's what they do in the dorms

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i'm glad to hear that

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i think as long as you want to get better, it really helps

also they're quite good at dealing with the asian family pressure and the trauma it causes you and helping you take that down

[mystic meteor]

i don't have experience w therapy but my older sister says it took them a while to find a therapist that meshed well with them

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not from personal experience, but i have talked to my therapist about a lot of these cases

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so im glad u found a good one quickly

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thank you

i try

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the band aid fr

💀

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oh yeah

if you think about it

everything in life is a coping mechanism

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like

exercising? that's a coping mechanism too

art? definitely a coping mechanism?

league of legends? why are you living even

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i dont play league to get rid of my anger

i play the piano if i feel like shit

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you do it because you feel empty otherwise

[mystic meteor]

i play league to build up the anger and play the piano to let it out

[rich mist]

Anything to distract from the unbearable existential dread 😊

[mystic meteor]

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music is also a coping mechanism!

[mystic meteor]

nah it's actually been pretty ok lately

on league

i took a 4 month break and am doing ok now

💪

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the state of angst/anxiety that has bothered philosophers for thousands of years

what is your proposed solution

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my proposed solution is that smarter mfs than me have tried to fix it and failed 💀

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please don't say kierkegaardian leap of faith

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is this a legitimate worry

like

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maybe smart isn't the solution then

[rich mist]

I was going to say embrace the absurdity 🥺

[mystic meteor]

there are a lot of times where things feel like shit and it's like 🙂 better ppl than me have tried and failed

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HAHAHA are you a camus fan

[rich mist]

Absolutely lol

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fair enough

[rich mist]

French existentialism on top

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camus isn't technically existentialist

sartre / de beauvoir are more direct

[rich mist]

Fair

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i liked camus' philosophy for a while but also i didn't like the oftentimes hedonist element of it

[mystic meteor]

why not

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there's also a correlation between intelligence and mental illness

so

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me on my way to be the outlier

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technically people who aren't as intelligent are oftentimes not bothered by the problems due to the fact that ignorance is bliss

[mystic meteor]

in the worst fucking way possible

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trauma and existential dread are not really the same problem but we apply the same solutions anyway

[mystic meteor]

does it work 💀

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personally i'm much more fond of nietzschean affirmation

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temporarily yes, so if you continue to maintain the temporariness for your entire life it is a de facto "solution"

but did you really solve the problem? nope, you're just deceiving yourself

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is that bad

💀

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yes

but no one thinks it's bad since everyone does it

so you have a few choices

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why is that bad

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1. kierkegaardian leap of faith where you believe in god and embrace the values

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my ass could not

skip

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2. accept that you have free will and you get to create meanings for yourself through taking up your responsibilities

[mystic meteor]

that

sounds like the more based solution ngl

🙂

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i mean, it technically isn't bad in itself, but in terms of human values it's just deceiving ourselves, which is considered bad faith

[mystic meteor]

isn't that still a band-aid though or am i tripping

like

isn't the created meaning and satisfaction from it still just something of an arbitrary construct meant to hold the "damn this sucks" out

💀

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everything is a band-aid in life since it's all responses to existential dread if you look at it that way, but some are better than others

[mystic meteor]

gg...

is it wrong to look at it that way

💀

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nietzschean affirmation is basically saying "damn this sucks BUT i still willingly suffer in all this and by embracing this suffering and laughing in the face of fate i am creating my own values"

[rich mist]

I see it more as “yeah this is gonna suck no matter what but I can still find meaning in it”

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camus' absurdism is basically saying "damn this sucks BUT it doesn't really suck anyway dance smoke women haha"

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💀

one of the weed enjoyers of all time

IS THIS REAL

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he's your average philosopher-who-gets-bitches philosophy

while schopenhauer and nietzsche are very bitchless-philosopher philosophy

[mystic meteor]

is there one that's better 💀

oir is that just a matter of choice

[rich mist]

Kierkegaard turned down the bitches to go think about god or something

[mystic meteor]

church enjoyer

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not really, there's no such thing as definite better in philosophy

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pretty much

a true legend if you ask me

a man of true faith

[rich mist]

Actively depriving yourself of happiness 🔥

[mystic meteor]

is his shit just religion

💀

[rich mist]

A man I can relate to

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LIFE-DENYING PHILOSOPHY!

[rich mist]

His shit is talking about universal human experiences through the language of Christianity

[mystic meteor]

yeah i can't read english OR math when im on too low sleep

gg

[rich mist]

I’m not religious, but I still find lots of his work really informative to how I live my life

[mystic meteor]

is reading this also a skill

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it's okay if you can't understand this, i took this from a pretty dense book and it's one of the greatest philosophical works of all time

it takes quite a bit of previous knowledge and understanding

but i think it's a passage you might be able to appreciate @rich mist

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"more Chinese"

💀

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he ain't wrong

[mystic meteor]

is it just a series of random adjectives to prove a point

or what

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chinese as in representing the "middle way" (中庸)

[mystic meteor]

oh'

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yeah

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he had some pretty foundational philosophy for later writings

establishing figure for existentialist philosophy

even though he's technically not existentialist

[rich mist]

I love the style lol

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his style is very fun to read, i'm sure you can relate through bge

[rich mist]

I’ll get to it soon…

I have a lot on my reading list after 😢

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no need to rush it! honestly i'm happy to see that someone reads philosophy at all and in this server

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ooh what's your reading list

do share

[rich mist]

I was thinking Beauvoir’s second sex next

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oooh

haven't read that, been working through chapter 3 ethics of ambiguity for a class, but de beauvoir is a great writer

[rich mist]

Haven’t really read any feminist philosophy

[fiery night]

I’m going to binge read and watch so much after apps

[hidden heart]

i want to see both of y'all's reading lists

i need diversity for reading too

haven't read nearly enough

[rich mist]

Being and time - Heidegger
Treatise on human nature - Hume
Man’s search for meaning - frankl
Formal logic - Jeffrey (probably need SOME analytical stuff 😭)
All of Harry Potter - my winter break tradition :)!

[hidden heart]

HAH funny that you mention being and time

not recommended in terms of reading alone 💀 one chapter in and you're gonna die

[vestal lava]

Why

[hidden heart]

it gets better, it really is a masterpiece, but oh boy i can't wait to see how you feel about it

[hidden heart]

have you read it before>/

*?

[vestal lava]

No

[hidden heart]

yeah here lemme give an example

[rich mist]

Someone recommended hegel’s phenomenology and kant’s critiques but HELL nah

[hidden heart]

hegel is horrendous

to read

kant's critique of pure reason is worth reading and that's on my list too

they have a course here specifically on that book

[rich mist]

I tried pure reason a year ago, but it was pretty impenetrable then lol

[hidden heart]

a lot easier if you have a teacher i think

[rich mist]

Yeah it would be nice in a class setting

[hidden heart]

this is what you get 1 page into a book

this is being and time

let's break this down

[vestal lava]

bruh wtf is that

Fucking hieroglyphics or some shit

[hidden heart]

he:

1. jumped into ancient greek 1 sentence in
2. then immediately switched to latin
3. assumes that you can grasp all the definitions of "Being"
4. jumps back into greek to explain something
5. uses the word "transcend" which can mean like 6 different things in response to previous philosophy (kant, hegel, husserl)

[mystic meteor]

wait do yu have to read the -

[hidden heart]

i did this for my continental philosophy class

[rich mist]

I also really wanna read the original poetic Edda, but my Norse skills aren’t there yet 😞

[mystic meteor]

is bro afraid of destroying the original meaning

SERVER ICON CHANGE

[hidden heart]

it was the most painful reading in my life up to the point

but it was

probably the most rewarding reading ever honestly, so yes, if you're up for the monumental task of reading Being and Time, absolutely go for it

[rich mist]

Maybe over the summer

[hidden heart]

funnily enough if you look at goodreads, all the bad reviews are basically saying "i don't understand this so this is stupid"

[hidden heart]

when you get into brown

if phil0652 is offered again (the prof is absolutely wonderful, he just got his phd but he puts so much effort in and is very engaging), definitely take it

dusk i like you

i hope you get it

i hope you get in

[astral quail]

when do ur guys come out

[rich mist]

Me too LOL, thank you!!

[rich mist]

Got it

I’m a junior anyways

[vestal lava]

Bruh

[hidden heart]

did you apply this cycle

[rich mist]

No

[hidden heart]

oh shit you're fine then

damn you're good for a junior

[vestal lava]

I need simple stuff to read

I can’t read complex philosophy

[hidden heart]

average harvard man

[hidden heart]

do you want some classics recommendations

[rich mist]

Idk everyone does hella impressive stuff and I just be reading things 🙁

[hidden heart]

reading things and being able to formulate complex thoughts regarding them is far more impressive than "doing things" tbh

[mystic meteor]

awards and achievements r for losers fr

[hidden heart]

i dislike the achievement-based way of application but i also get it, though my complaint about it is that intellectualism is very hard to take into account when that is the case

i don't think i had very impressive achievements but i think my essays made up for them since i intended to showcase intellecutalism in them

[mystic meteor]

the redpill is if u like reading u just do that shit 💀 the words make no sense to me so i'm going to go ahead and say it's pretty fire if u can actually make sense of what's on the page

[vestal lava]

Hmm

[hidden heart]

i'm pretty sure reading heidegger taught me a decent bit of ancient greek and german 💀

[vestal lava]

depends if they’re interesting or not

[rich mist]

That’s reassuring, thank you

[vestal lava]

are you in phil 1735

[mystic meteor]

free foreign language concentration FR

[hidden heart]

metaphysics?

nah, cat is

[vestal lava]

ok

[mystic meteor]

what ended up happening to cat

💀

[hidden heart]

banned

[mystic meteor]

jfc

i need that positivity out here

😭

[hidden heart]

saw her earlier in the ratty and didn't go say hi

[mystic meteor]

bro....

idk saying hi to ppl who r already doing things is scary

[hidden heart]

she was with other phil110 classmates i was just too lazy to start a conversation with them

[vestal lava]

scaredy cat

[rich mist]

Wait huh 😭 I thought she was chill

[hidden heart]

she trolled too much

[hidden heart]

not me

our personalities don't mix that well tbh

she's cool

[mystic meteor]

i wish i could be like her

💀

[hidden heart]

but not the type of person i'd hang around that much

[vestal lava]

hmm interesting

[hidden heart]

i think i prefer more quiet and aloof

she likes more conversational

probably more representative of what brown is than me

[mystic meteor]

im tryna get like her

😭

[hidden heart]

oh right dusk

for nietzsche i think twilight of the idols is good too

since aka indirectly mentioned an idol

[rich mist]

The title sounds pretty so I’ll add it to the list

[mystic meteor]

what

:woahme:

conversation contribution

[hidden heart]

you said you're trying to get like her

[mystic meteor]

oh

[hidden heart]

which i say don't, become your own values instead

[mystic meteor]

but ppl who r bubbly and kind r so fire

💀

[hidden heart]

no matter how good someone else's values or personality is, making your own is better

[hidden heart]

disagreed

sad but kind >>>>>>>

[mystic meteor]

i don't wanna see a mf be sad

[hidden heart]

sad and quiet but kind is ideal imo because that's usually genuine kindness

oh you won't see them being sad

they won't show you

[mystic meteor]

i don't want them to be sad*

[vestal lava]

🤔

[hidden heart]

but what do they want.

[mystic meteor]

unless they're the enemy laner

FUCKING bastard needs to be permanently banned 🔥

[mystic meteor]

idk.

[hidden heart]

or your shit jungle teammate

[rich mist]

I like her but she seems… really enthusiastic
Which is fine but a little off putting for me ngl

[mystic meteor]

you know too much of the vocab to have never dabbled in this activity

🤨

[rich mist]

Do you still feel like a good fit there?

[hidden heart]

i think i had 1 hour on league 3 years ago played 2 games with friends, but know enough since i'm asian and i have asian friends lol

[mystic meteor]

😭

im sry that happened to u

💀

[hidden heart]

considering that i have good friends who can appreciate me here the answer would be yes, but in terms of general vibe? probably still more uchicago

[mystic meteor]

what the fuck does the "i'm sorry [xyz]" even mean btw like 🤨

when tragedy befalls a mf and you just say "i'm sorry to hear that"

[hidden heart]

but also i would've died in uchicago with my procrastination and laziness

[mystic meteor]

i don't get that expression

[mystic meteor]

if it means anything i survived honors calc

and i shit my pants in terms of managing myself

[rich mist]

Ah gotcha
I love uchi vibes but my ass would drown

[mystic meteor]

idk what it is but they lowkey inflated our grades

uchicago isn't as hard as the rumors say from what i've seen

[hidden heart]

brown and uchicago are two extremes but i think in the end they both accomplish intellectualism depending on how you take it

[mystic meteor]

which is admittedly an entirely-too-small cross section to form a judgement off of

[hidden heart]

because you're high school

they have literal grade deflation for students

[mystic meteor]

no it's for the entire class

[hidden heart]

hmm

i have friends there and they're constantly dying

and they're very bright

so i dunno

[mystic meteor]

💀

maybe it's just that im only taking one class

it's prob that tbh

i also did it pretty dishonestly

[hidden heart]

they all take like 4 or 5 classes so

[mystic meteor]

like some theorems i just gave up and only learned their applications

so i'll have to go back and learn them

which is why i want to repeat calc a third time when i go to college

[rich mist]

Don’t they have quarter system too

[mystic meteor]

yeah

💀

[hidden heart]

yup so these lucky bitches are out of school already

[mystic meteor]

[hidden heart]

but they die in the 10-week period

[mystic meteor]

haven't seen eckhart hall in like 5 days

feeling better than ever

the 10 weeks vary tbh

[hidden heart]

uchicago campus > brown campus though imo

[mystic meteor]

rly

[hidden heart]

but uchicago surrounding <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< providence

[mystic meteor]

i think i've seen uchicago campus way too much it just lost its charm

[hidden heart]

chicago is nice though

[mystic meteor]

yeah uhhhh

uchicago straddles the line in terms of safety

they have their own police force

[rich mist]

Fr hogwarts vibes
But Hyde park 🫢

[mystic meteor]

which they use to call on protestors

insane

[vestal lava]

Forest of death

[hidden heart]

uchicago police department is the third largest police department in the nation

let that sink in

[vestal lava]

or whatever they called it

[mystic meteor]

genuinely insane

[vestal lava]

Hollow forests

[hidden heart]

only behind lapd and dc

[mystic meteor]

💀

tfw uchicago police gapping entire cities' worth of police

[hidden heart]

it's actually crazy

[mystic meteor]

according to my mom they like

threatened to legit move out of chicago unless the city let them have their own police force

[hidden heart]

this was a hunger games fanfic

but my favorite thing ever

[mystic meteor]

;LMAMO

LMAO

particularly the gothic arch

😭

[hidden heart]

they still can move out

if they ever want

[mystic meteor]

ye

it was more of a bargaining weapon prob

[hidden heart]

still funded by the rockefellers i think?

[mystic meteor]

ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL

WOOOOOOOOO

[hidden heart]

yeah rockefellers basically made uchicago

[mystic meteor]

[hidden heart]

wish brown would've gotten that money from them

at least they gave us a library

[mystic meteor]

duide their hands are everywhere

ken griffin tryna get like the rockefellers lol

how rich is that bastard actually

[hidden heart]

considering their dynasty it's not surprising

i hope maybe elon puts down his grudge for brown and give us maybe 50 billion or something

because his kid goes here

[mystic meteor]

oh

🐸

[hidden heart]

still hate that bastard though

[mystic meteor]

i'd hate to hate elon musk as a father

"father"

[rich mist]

Endowments are endowments

[mystic meteor]

resident clown*

[hidden heart]

also found out yesterday hans zimmer's daughter is brown '24

[hidden heart]

man showed up for move in day last year

[mystic meteor]

how was the reception from the students

wait

🐸 i'm dumb

u weren't there

LOL

[hidden heart]

yeah lmfao I heard it from others

[rich mist]

Brown students would prob protest lmao

[mystic meteor]

idt i would want to be within a mile radius of the guy

but it'd be lowkey chill if he wants to wire money to my school

[hidden heart]

Most of us hate him so yeah

Unless yknow

we accidentally "get hit" by his cybertruck

💸

💰

[mystic meteor]

yoo wtf

[hidden heart]

"a million or see you in court"

[mystic meteor]

it's

it's a 7th grade geometry problem made 3d

💀

[hidden heart]

pretty much

[rich mist]

Someone’s gotta pay that tuition

[mystic meteor]

oh no

are you serious

that's so sad

i love that place so much 😭

now it has this bastard's name on it gg..

[hidden heart]

exaaaactly

i mean y'all have the trump tower ruining downtown chicago

that's bad enough

[mystic meteor]

i don't go by there very much ngl

i just close my eyes and pretend the massive shimmering evil isn't there

💀

ken griffin's son used to come to our school and they donated a shit ton

[hidden heart]

is today duke day

[mystic meteor]

our auditorium got renamed and the students shitposted about it so much he pulled his son out 💀

yeah

it's a shit ton

6 ivies, duke, rice, vanderbilt

[hidden heart]

why is it duke and not ivies

also which other ivy except for brown decided to be special

[mystic meteor]

dartmouth

same thing as last year

[hidden heart]

lmfao knew it

[mystic meteor]

ye

how is brown's math btw

[hidden heart]

brown is latest

[mystic meteor]

i actually didn't look at it too much honestly because i was super taken by the general culture and opportunities

[hidden heart]

applied math best in the nation (world), theoretical math is up there too

[mystic meteor]

Nice.

[hidden heart]

brown's humanities is a behemoth

[mystic meteor]

ye

[hidden heart]

and talked about as much

brown's stem on the other hand isn't talked much about

but literally top 10 in the nation overall

brown's apma and cs truly are good

[mystic meteor]

i just applied under the assumption that brown's humanities are insane enough to give me a great foundation in whatever writing/reading/thinking skills i'll need, and that the STEM is going to be good anyway bc it's brown 💀

[hidden heart]

engineering weaker than it can be

[mystic meteor]

is apma shorthand for applied math

[hidden heart]

yeah

we say apma instead of applied math

[mystic meteor]

oh

[hidden heart]

so when you hear apma cs

or apma econ

you know that they're a fucking loser

[mystic meteor]

you know they're a bastard :kekw:

ye

[hidden heart]

you're getting it!

good

[mystic meteor]

idk like

i'm better at applied math than pure math

but the theorems are too interesting to give up on

💀

i have to at least try before backing out

[hidden heart]

cannot relate

[mystic meteor]

pure math doesn't click at all for me

[crisp pagoda]

see i'm bad at both #flex

[mystic meteor]

but it's incredibly uncomfortable to not delve deep into the inner workings of mathematical concepts for me

so i kind of have to go pure

it's like scratching an itch ig

[hidden heart]

humanities >>>>>>

[crisp pagoda]

REAL!

[mystic meteor]

my math teacher is such an insane chad

😭

[hidden heart]

you are required to take math classes like math 540 and 350 so you get theoretical maths anyway

[crisp pagoda]

i'm going to be an art neuro double major though lmao

[mystic meteor]

he got a phd in engineering and worked for boeing for some time

and then decided that shit was boring

decided to become an hs math teacher

[crisp pagoda]

that's so funny what

[mystic meteor]

this guy is actually just a renaissance intellectual

[crisp pagoda]

honestly win

[mystic meteor]

he knows every book ppl bring into class

[hidden heart]

uchicago prof?

[mystic meteor]

discusses performance arts

no just deadass the hs teacher

LOL

[hidden heart]

oh

[mystic meteor]

he taught my calc bc

and he's like this really calm wise person

[hidden heart]

shit that's awesome

[mystic meteor]

he's so cool

;sob:

[hidden heart]

that's what hs teachers should be

[mystic meteor]

he's literally my north star

[hidden heart]

oh wait

you go to a private

[mystic meteor]

i was like "i don't get wtf is going on" basically

ye.

[hidden heart]

almost forgot about that

[mystic meteor]

💀

doomed from the outset

[hidden heart]

if only public school teachers can be like that lmfaoooo

[mystic meteor]

ye

education is fucked ngl

[crisp pagoda]

public school teachers t-t

[hidden heart]

i've also never gone to public school

[mystic meteor]

🤝

[hidden heart]

so i'm extremely privileged with teachers like that

[mystic meteor]

he's my hero

[crisp pagoda]

i was in public for elementary and uh

[mystic meteor]

i waant to be like him

[hidden heart]

i wish public schools will have that in the future since everyone deserves awesome teachers

[hidden heart]

😭

[mystic meteor]

💀

[crisp pagoda]

i think when i started cleaning up the library, sttapling student's work up, and basically teaching math

i was like

wow this is ass

[mystic meteor]

bruh

[hidden heart]

see, public high school is bad but not nearly as bad public elementary, since the younger you are the more influence they have over you

and when very underequipped people become elementary teachers... fuck

[crisp pagoda]

and then i ended up going to a private whic i'm really glad i was able to do. like majorly privegeled to have been able to

[mystic meteor]

i went to this cultish conservative private elementary school

[hidden heart]

my life goal is basically to change that

[crisp pagoda]

but man i just remember being a fourth grader and going "wow. i think my teacher is incompetnet"

[hidden heart]

"wow, i am so smart"

[mystic meteor]

we would have this fucking thanksgiving procession wher ewe walked with food to a cornucopia and chanted praise for god

i didn't realize it at the time but like

wow

LOL

[hidden heart]

religious indoctrination!

[crisp pagoda]

positivty haha

[crisp pagoda]

um?

[mystic meteor]

i'm glad i got out of there

[crisp pagoda]

that's kinda wild

[mystic meteor]

wild shit

yeah

parents didn't see anything wrong with it

[crisp pagoda]

my private is religious but like, in the most air quotes way possible

i think half of us aren't even christian if i were to guess

[hidden heart]

christian/catholic parents?

[mystic meteor]

nah they're just like

asian.

🙂

[hidden heart]

oh

yeah

[crisp pagoda]

and chapel is just like, let's talk about global conflicts and stay informed

[mystic meteor]

they yelled at my older sister until they cried

[hidden heart]

atheist asian parents have no idea what religion is

[mystic meteor]

recently

[crisp pagoda]

HELP

[mystic meteor]

just bc the topic of makeup came up

and my sister was like "[my name] is willing to be my model for makeup"

and they were like OH NO DON'T DO IT WHAT IF HE LIKES IT

and my sister defended me and they started shouting at them

[crisp pagoda]

oh geez

[mystic meteor]

🙂

[hidden heart]

you can't makeup asian trauma

[mystic meteor]

i didn't know what to say other than to thank my sister for standing up for me when i wasn't even there

idfk what to even do

💀

[hidden heart]

awww your sis is awesome

[mystic meteor]

they try so hard to protect me and they're like

having a worse time than i am too

[hidden heart]

hang out with your sis and have fun together because she sounds like a very positive influence

*they

sorry

is there a gender neutral term for sis

[mystic meteor]

i feel like shit bc my parents favor me

idfk ngl

[hidden heart]

i guess only "older sibling"

[mystic meteor]

💀 ii've been thinkking abt that for a while

ye

[hidden heart]

my "sib"

[mystic meteor]

i should go ask them what i should say tbh

🤨

dont know why i havent yet i should go do that

[crisp pagoda]

same. i think they think it makes me feel good when it just makes me wildly uncomfortable

[mystic meteor]

BISCORB DM

i'm like

youngest asian child

[hidden heart]

god i hope it's not because of gender

[crisp pagoda]

biscorb tehee

[mystic meteor]

no

my brother got his ass beaten bc he misbehaved when he was younger

💀

[hidden heart]

the amount of asian families that favor boys over girls IN MODERN DAY WORLD is crazy

[hidden heart]

yeah that's typical in asian households though, you only beat boys not girls

[mystic meteor]

the problem for me with saying my older sib is that i have two

oh we all got beaten a bit

my brother got the brunt tho

bc he's the middle child

[hidden heart]

both use they/them?

sib 1 sib 2

[vestal lava]

😞

[mystic meteor]

my brother is a finance bro straight cis dude

he's completely diff from me and sib 1

[hidden heart]

older bro and older sib then

[mystic meteor]

ye

it's kind of hard to be around him ngl

[crisp pagoda]

goofy

[mystic meteor]

he can be fun a lot of the time but other times he's just

[hidden heart]

what's your input here

[mystic meteor]

classic finance bro

and it's like 🙂 gg

[hidden heart]

i don't think i can and have talked to finance bros

[vestal lava]

well

[mystic meteor]

i hope my brother gets cured soon

[crisp pagoda]

cured from econ fever

[mystic meteor]

fr

[hidden heart]

sorry, it's a lost cause if he got his degree

[vestal lava]

i have 3 sisters and that doesn’t seem to be the case for my family luckily

[hidden heart]

that's good

[mystic meteor]

he's still a sophomore in college

[hidden heart]

no open curriculum then byebye

[crisp pagoda]

he still has a chance to be saved!

[mystic meteor]

[hidden heart]

depends on where

if it's upenn you're gone

he's gone

[mystic meteor]

emory

he EDed dartmouth but didn't get in 💀

idk that much abt emory

[hidden heart]

lmfao

[hidden heart]

i know a decent bit

their finance is strong

[mystic meteor]

other than the fact that my parents yelled at him for "only" ending up at emory

[hidden heart]

i'm sorry about your loss

[mystic meteor]

Gg

[hidden heart]

only top 22 🤬

i think it dropped this yea

but emory is a top 20 imo

[mystic meteor]

dumb fucking bastard........... disgrace to ancestor