Posted by alexandra_k on February 5, 2019, at 3:42:11
In reply to Re: fools errand, posted by alexandra_k on February 5, 2019, at 3:32:22
and it's Camus. the trial.
i'm supposed to break down and beg my supervisor to help. i'm supposed to be overwhelmed and i don't know what to do. then things will run over and late. i'll be late my work won't be being done. maybe i'll start taking sick days. maybe some time in hospital for depression or something maybe that will help.
and then... maybe my supervisor wil feel like i've ben tortured enough. at some point. will be like ... willing to sign things off.
probably only after things have been irrevokably f*ck*d up. missed deadlines, i mean.
forced the student back to part time status so the degree doesn't count (just makes it look like the student is incapable of workign anything other than part time).
i guess my previous grades were the end of an era.
the end of the brain drain.
the end of the thing where the brains got up and left. just out and walked away.
though.... i didn't meet students with grades like mine. it surprised me. i thought many more would have...
but no.
everyone seems determined to teach me lessons now. in that way that the primary school teachers had...
they've taken over the universities now, you see...
and the way the world works apparently is that philosophy is the bottom of the food chain.
if you can't make it in philosophy you can't make it in anything at all.
which is why nobody in their right mind would do the subject in the first place.
the curiosity and joy and so on has just gone away...
why does this country think i'm garbage?
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