http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=24 Pensaments of an Anthropological Patzer Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/?p=24&cpage=1#comment-99 NotSoMuch Tue, 06 Dec 2005 15:02:43 +0000 http://www.pathawi.net/b-log/2005/06/04/do-we-need-no-education/#comment-99 This is many-thought-provoking. The thoughts: I came to read all this long after it was written and so only saw the new look of your blog. The old one sounds awful. Glad I never saw it. That said: I have always thought the only look I have seen is very effective. It is simple, straight-forward. Form supporting content instead of detracting from it is all you need/want. You have achieved that with the current incarnation. Get you masters in 8 months. I am jealous. It has taken me close to 2 years (but I have had to pace myself because I am simultaneously working a fulltime job, a parttime job and trying to begin/conduct a new personal relationship during those same years). 24? You are a couple of years ahead of me there too. I came back to university to begin my masters a little older than that. The publish-or-perish, get ahead in academia so I can do what I really want to do thing is very real. It is the dilemma when you consider it all ahead of time, when you start and it is the ongoing dilemma now and will be. Maybe you don't make a splash as much as you make a contribution. Loving a city is good. I love the one where I feel at home. I was born here, grew up here, went to university here, have most of my friends here, work here, have family here, began my current (very serious) relationship here, did my thesis here, write my poetry here, bike here, walk here, breath it all here. What's not to love? I like revolutionaries more than I like their vanguards. If you do your Masters (now or soonish) and do it in 8 months (or even if it takes you a little more) you will be well ahead of me. You will be on your way to PhD territory well before you are 30. I don't know if it is ever going to be realistic for me to get a PhD. (I never thought I would get to go back for my Masters thought). I have to struggle with keeping this woman in my life and helping her bring up her daughter and stuff like paying rent and other bills. So, if I don't do it (or if I do) you should. Take the chance. It could be the chance of a lifetime. £10,500 isn't as much as it used to be what with the falling exchange value of the pound. And where to get it? Buy lottery tickets, of course. This is many-thought-provoking.
The thoughts:
I came to read all this long after it was written and so only saw the new look of your blog. The old one sounds awful. Glad I never saw it. That said: I have always thought the only look I have seen is very effective. It is simple, straight-forward. Form supporting content instead of detracting from it is all you need/want. You have achieved that with the current incarnation.
Get you masters in 8 months. I am jealous. It has taken me close to 2 years (but I have had to pace myself because I am simultaneously working a fulltime job, a parttime job and trying to begin/conduct a new personal relationship during those same years).
24? You are a couple of years ahead of me there too. I came back to university to begin my masters a little older than that.
The publish-or-perish, get ahead in academia so I can do what I really want to do thing is very real.
It is the dilemma when you consider it all ahead of time, when you start and it is the ongoing dilemma now and will be.
Maybe you don’t make a splash as much as you make a contribution.
Loving a city is good. I love the one where I feel at home. I was born here, grew up here, went to university here, have most of my friends here, work here, have family here, began my current (very serious) relationship here, did my thesis here, write my poetry here, bike here, walk here, breath it all here. What’s not to love?
I like revolutionaries more than I like their vanguards.
If you do your Masters (now or soonish) and do it in 8 months (or even if it takes you a little more) you will be well ahead of me. You will be on your way to PhD territory well before you are 30. I don’t know if it is ever going to be realistic for me to get a PhD. (I never thought I would get to go back for my Masters thought). I have to struggle with keeping this woman in my life and helping her bring up her daughter and stuff like paying rent and other bills. So, if I don’t do it (or if I do) you should.
Take the chance. It could be the chance of a lifetime.
£10,500 isn’t as much as it used to be what with the falling exchange value of the pound. And where to get it? Buy lottery tickets, of course.

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