We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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Monthly Archives: April 2024
Campus Life at
Ulster University
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There will be time, there will be time. To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Campus Life at
Tsinghua University
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A document called “syllabus” persists, and is still distributed to prospective students at the start of each semester—but its function as a course plan has been minimized, if not entirely erased. First and foremost, it must satisfy a drove of bureaucratic needs, describing school policies, accreditation demands, regulatory matters, access to campus resources, health and safety guidelines, and more.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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Campus Life at the
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
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I had never encountered anything like the world or the words of Chester Himes. But I knew I wanted more. The next book I devoured was “Blind Man With a Pistol,” a deeply twisted and morally ambiguous novel about the senseless nature of violence. A work that is both terrifying and philosophical, it was a watershed moment for this young wannabe writer that also just happens to have one of the most fearless endings in crime fiction history.
~ S.A. Cosby via The New York Times
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Campus Life at the
Birkbeck, University of London
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“Libertarianism is a half-baked ideology that a certain type of young man gravitates to because he is unwilling – or perhaps unable – to think beyond his sociopathic self absorption.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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