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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Philosophy 216
If you ever think it might be a good idea to take a graduate course in philosophy, it's probably not. Especially if your job is to read and analyze literature. In that case you will likely be extremely confused (unless you are a certain group of literary scholars I know, all three of which went to Cornell). Not only are the ideas discussed in the class confusing, but the very terminology and the method used to discuss those ideas are perplexing. This is me on the Tuesday evening of my wedding anniversary. If I would have been smart and not gone to grad school, I could be taking my wife out to dinner right now instead of sitting here feeling confused during the break of my philosophy course. The moral of the story? Don't go to grad school, take your wife to dinner instead.
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"Don't go to grad school, take your wife to dinner instead." Though it's said facetiously, that goes down in my book as golden wisdom of truth and light. Truly truly.
Golden wisdom indeed. I attribute it to someone other than myself. But really, if I were my wife and I was talking about how I wanted to get a graduate degree despite the fact that I was being recruited for jobs I (being the wife) would have said, "Suck it up book boy! Get a job and take me to dinner!"
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