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Can I become a Classicist, or am I just a dreamer?
I read that the skills you need for a PhD are 1. Persistence 2. Persistence and 3. Persistence, others also cite 4. Arrogance and 5. Intelligence. Is it normal for undergraduates to feel totally incapable and unqualified? Is this the imposter syndrome which all prospective and acting academic suffer from? I wish I had people…
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Summertime is for working hard
My deadliest sin is sloth, no doubt about it. being a teenager with free access to the internet meant many days wasted indoors (i only realise now). sadly those habits ossified, i am ‘paresseuse’. I want to achieve great things. great is a relative term which is allowed to fluctuate. change the day of one…
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Get your hands of that celestial body
I started crying because my dad told me they are planning on mining the moon. maybe i over reacted but damn that hurt. Couldnt stop thinking about how it would be stealing from Artemis and every other moon goddess. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who…
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Its so hard to respect economics students
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Announcement + The brilliance of Cato
This title reads like an apology video from 2020 – I don’t mean to be so dramatic. All I wanted to say was that I have found an answer to a question I asked myself at the start of the year. I may be a cook. Check out @deipnosophista on Instagram if you dont believe…
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Abandoning my conclusions about the Iliad
backstory: As preliminary research for my dissertation I have picked up a copy of Aristotle’s Poetics and have begun reading it before bedtime (I can only read a few pages before my eyes get unbearably heavy). Tonight I hit the most amazing section which deals with the different species and components of plots. Section 6.4…
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Χαιρε: Introduction
As a twenty-year-old girl, I get asked a lot about what I want to be when I’m older. I understand why folks ask, but I never know what to say. I try to explain that I cannot see into the future, and will probably just take whatever opportunities I can, but they still look unsatisfied.…
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