The University and the Human Spirit
Break the bonds which shackle the human spirit,
enlarge the bounds of human reason and freedom,
inquire freely into all matters of knowledge,
follow the argument whithersoever it may lead:
such is the great adventure of civilisation,
and of its teaching and research laboratory—
the university. - Jan Smuts (CU Reporter, Vol 78, pp 1300–1303.)
posted by Christo @ 7:34 AM
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hello.
my my. isn't this whole new world just the popular thing to do? i've just been introduced. whether this is good or not is yet to be seen.
so i hear you, too, might join up for the intriguing new masters program.
that’s a wee bit of a hike from Union, hey?
that library, gotta love it. I always go to the foot-rested windows on the 2nd floor. it’s where the cool people hang out, you know.
yesterday, there was a dude next to me copying entire textbooks onto his digital camera. hmmm.
it got mentioned in the hours? bizarre. i saw philip glass perform last year in Vancouver. amazing. but perhaps not as astounding as the conversation i had afterwards with a Christian Satanist. glass was a close second, though.
yeah, the masters thing and trinity. well, for reasons incomprehensible to me, the english department is always willing to bend over backwards for me and I figured that’s a good department to work with because the common complaint of grad students is that their profs don’t have the time of day for them. And here, I’ve already been asked to teach a couple lectures of the classes I’ll be taking, to help mark undergraduate papers, to go to conferences. Academically I think it’s going to be rad. And I love the English department. Even though it isn’t always the smartest thing to go back to the same university for your grad degree.
also, after a terrifying experience of living in france, I realize I need support and lots of it, and that’s one thing I’ll get in abundance out west.
ah, we’ll see.
so, if it’s not the MA for you, what? the other M word?
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