oh yeah, re-#introductions
I did myself a master in Education, almost by accident. when I did my bachelor, someone I had a low-intense crush on let it slip that they'd do the master thing, so I said - hey, this is good news. then she didn't complete the bachelor degree and I had to face the master music alone
and then I went and got a completely unrelated master in sociology, as you do. thus, if you ever need an interdisciplinarian, hmu
It is a miracle that any piece of writing gets done at all, and we should celebrate it in every way we know how
the key to reading Foucault
"why is Foucault doing this seemingly irrelevant strange digression about this one Monsieur in 16th century France?"
listen
this is literally the only chance he gets to tell anyone this strange and wonderful tale. you take your shots when you get them
the key to reading Foucault
as you know - upon having read these words, the knowledge is imparted to you - I wrote a thesis that was an archival study. during these archival galivants, I encountered many a strange tale and anecdote, few of which were in any substantial way connected to the overall project I was undertaking
therein lies the key
Foucault was also an archive rat, who encountered many a strange tale. thing is, after reading these strange anecdotes, you want to tell someone. ergo,
Gonna throw back to when I played #skatebird and then made a Skatebird!
oh yeah, re-#introductions
I did myself a master in Education, almost by accident. when I did my bachelor, someone I had a low-intense crush on let it slip that they'd do the master thing, so I said - hey, this is good news. then she didn't complete the bachelor degree and I had to face the master music alone
and then I went and got a completely unrelated master in sociology, as you do. thus, if you ever need an interdisciplinarian, hmu
also pay @bgcarlisle so they can upgrade the masto server to deal with how many new users are here now https://www.patreon.com/theresearchfairy
Survey: is there anything we didn't do during your time here?
Me: I waited for years and years for you to offer the second half of a master program so I could finish my degree. at length, I realized you were not going to do it, so I turned to a different university and completed it over there. it is, methinks, your loss
Alumni survey: do you think we, the university, could have done more to prepare students for the labor market?
Me, freetexting: it is not nor has it ever been part of the mission of a university to prepare students for the labor market. any and all attempts to restructure the organization towards such an aim should be resisted to the fullest extent possible. As Humboldt said,
"but skateboard academic sargoth, which institution are you at?"
see, academia stopped returning my calls after I discovered it'd only take another year to eke out two additional bachelors, in rhetoric and media studies respectively. I think my academic skateboarding antics is confusing the powers that be
I am become the skateboard academic, surveyor of words