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serena yuy
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10-06-2012, 04:21 AM
I'm gonna take a warm shower soon. Gotta get ready for bed. Long day tomorrow. :/
Gotta find some articles to save on a flash drive so I can read some while I'm out of town tomorrow.
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Crimson Fang
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10-06-2012, 04:26 AM
@admonished-
Oh you misunderstood me. I do love my majors. Indeed this week I am going to talk to my manager about the prospect of getting two days off work in December. This would either be through a shift swap or part of my annual leave. The reason being that the annual Australia/New Zealand Social Anthropology conference is going to be in a city quite close to where I live. The prospect of being able to attend this conference has me incredibly excited. It will quite likely cost me over 500 USD to attend it. This is something I am very much prepared to pay. :) Indeed it would be quite perplexing if I did not love my majors as I am still holding onto the dream of going further than a BA. xD
What anthropology class do you think you will end up taking?
Elysium-
Do you know which business minor in particular you will end up planning? With what I have heard about how constricted Bachelor major schedules are there it makes a lot of sense that one would be much more limited in their class options.
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ElysiumFate
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10-06-2012, 04:29 AM
Ach. That reminds me. Somebody corrupted my freaking flash drive the other day. So tweaked about that. *mumbles incoherently*
@Crimson: No, I still need to go to the business college on my campus and have a thorough talk with them about it. I've been told that a business minor is a brilliant thing to have with a psych major, but from what I also remember from that convo there aren't any versions of it specifically tailored to psych, so it'll be 23 more credits.
It'll be worth it though. I am still not sure I want to go with psych all the way to a Ph.D., but with that said I think it'd be good fun to be in the advertising field or some such related field where knowing how people's minds work would come in handy.
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serena yuy
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10-06-2012, 04:38 AM
I'm more of a tea drinker. ^^" I never wanted to become that person who needed coffee :/
Yeah, I've been stressed and just remembered I had an assignment due 44 min ago :/
I'm e-mailing the professor tomorrow when I get back saying that I was out of town and wasn't able to finish it before I left.
Which is NOT a lie. ^^" I'm going home tomorrow for the day for my youth group.
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Crimson Fang
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10-06-2012, 04:39 AM
@Elysium-
I certainly agree that it makes sense to have several paths open to you. I hope you do end up enjoying the business classes. As there is always the risk when taking another field that you will find it not to your liking. My former flatmate who will be starting his Ph.D in sociology soon took some time out from sociology to take some business classes himself to expand his intellectual tool kit. Unfortunately he found the classes to be a real chore and is quite thankful to be done with them. I also agree that social sciences, such as psychology, can be incredibly beneficial for areas such as marketing.
Edit: @serena-
Ah you were meaning it in the sense of someone who is dependent on it to function. That can certainly be quite problematic. I will send luck your way in regards to your professor's response!
Last edited by Crimson Fang; 10-06-2012 at 04:41 AM..
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ElysiumFate
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10-06-2012, 04:58 AM
@Ser: Awh, well, stick to black tea then, Ser. It generally has just as much caffeine as a cup of jo, and I imagine it's slightly better for you.
I'm not dependent on coffee, I just love the taste. Not the taste of it black, no, but with lots of cream and sugar it's amazing. ^.^
@Crimson: The way I see it, I am only 20. Yes, I think I should be in college, but I don't necessarily think I should stick directly to one thing. I've always been the kind of person who wants to have a ton of options, not just one closed in path. Especially because I've been a jack of all trades person since I was a child.
Sociology never sat well with me, so your friend impresses me. I was told once that psych doesn't transfer well to sociology, and it's true. I could get by, but it was quite hard for me.
I'm biased, of course, but I think psych and/or soc are both important classes for people to take. People don't have a clue how gullible they are until they've got some psych under their belt.
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serena yuy
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10-06-2012, 05:04 AM
I like getting coffee sometimes, but I usually stick to teas. I have many. I also have sleepytime tea, which I will be making a cup of in a bit to drink while watching stuff online or reading before bed after my shower ^^
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10-06-2012, 05:06 AM
El - Yeah, I was the only male. Regardless of what I said, regardless of how factual it was, and how wrong they were I was always kicked around like... well, kind of like I was beating women or something.
Eh, I know it's a different debate for a different day but I have to disagree. Medicine is medicine, it's not quantum psychics. The human body can be studied, observed, and medical treatments are then created based on these observations. I don't see where the knowledge of anatomy and biology is based on gender. Isn't that sort sexist within itself?
If you're talking about decisions I think that's a landmine. Due to the numerous issues that could ensure yes, people should legally be able to act on ther own. That's a total given (imagine the terrible court cases? x3) That's a human freedom that should be available to everyone. Socially I believe there are certain decisions that should be made together.
Just because you have the right to make decisions by yourself doesn't always mean you should. There's numerous things I could do but I don't, primarily because my girlfriend is more or less my moral compass. I could do it, but I won't because those decisions aren't just mine to make and do not only effect me. They effect others, and because of that I make those decisions with others.
Even if it's terminal it's still so relaxing. I'm so tempted to go take a beautifully long bath/shower. I'm just too lazy and full right now... x3
Serena - Aw... well hopefully you get a nice long sleep.
Crimson - Oops, sorry >.<. That will be an amazing experience. There's always so many fantastic speakers along with so many people to meet and talk with. Hopefully you get some good contacts. In April I'm going out of a state for a criminal justice conference, I'm thinking of taking a train. It'll give me time to finish my stupid paper.
I'd love to take every class available at my university but I'll probably take social. It will probably be the most helpful.
Last edited by Admonish Misconstruction; 10-06-2012 at 05:16 AM..
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ElysiumFate
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10-06-2012, 05:23 AM
We had three or four guys in my women's studies course. They all seemed to actually enjoy it and were always talking about how much they learned.
Well, yes, sure, of course men can study the female body and be doctors, etc. That doesn't bother me.
Just in general I don't want anyone of either sex (or any large corporations/religions) thinking they have the ability to tell a woman what can or cannot be done with her own body based on their own moral or religious views. That's where my issue lies.
And I agree. Major decisions should be discussed with others if it directly effects others, but when it comes straight down to it. Male or female. No matter what your partner or society believes, it should be your decision that is final, and everyone should be taught that, and everyone should have affordable and/or insurance covered access to important things like birth control. No one should be able to tell a woman she can't have those things.
That's what I was getting at.
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Crimson Fang
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10-06-2012, 05:30 AM
@Elysium-
I can hardly claim to be any freer of bias than you are when it concerns the importance of taking particular classes. Indeed he and I have been known to make variants of your comment about psych. Although out of the three of us, I am the most lacking. I have not taken any psychology or sociology classes. As my BA plan currently stands, this is not something which is looking to change. By having taken some sociology classes you have me beaten. My former flatmate has taken classes from all three of our fields. Although I have still critiqued him for his lack of politics and development studies classes on a few occasions. xD This was more in jest than anything else though. It can be fun to light heartedly tease friends at times.
Your point on difficulties in transferring from one field to another is something I am worried about a little bit. On one or two occasions I have made mistakes in assignments when transferring from Social Anthropology to either Development Studies or Politics.
@admonished -
Oh, I won't be expecting to get any contacts as I am simply attending as an observer. *Sigh* If I knew how to do that fancy strike through of words I could have made an anthropology joke there. It would have shown participant observer with the word participant crossed out. It would have...well probably just been another sign of how dorky I am. xD It is more than a little awesome though that you will be presenting a paper!
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ElysiumFate
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10-06-2012, 05:43 AM
I only took the one sociology class, so I don't have you too far beaten, there.  There is a lot of jargon in sociology that I don't understand and probably never will, so I didn't take any after the one I had.
Just in general, I find most classes I've taken enlightening in important ways. The behavioral/natural sciences, though, have been the most important classes I've ever taken, at least in my opinion. Economics and political classes have been eye opening as well. I know I'll never look at another commercial the same again, and I also know I'll never walk by somebody who needs help again, either, because of my psych classes.
Definitely--the problem with changing fields of study to take different classes is that they're so similar to each other, but the jargon and points of importance are just different enough to make it difficult.
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10-06-2012, 05:56 AM
Once I figured out the course the class was going I sat around studying Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine and Gender Troubles by Judith Butler. I decided to study something decent x3. One of our campuses has a really good gender studies teacher, I just haven't had the chance to take any of her classes.
Due to the nature of decisions the final decision generally has to be made by the person in question. That in itself does not make your choice anywhere close to right. While yes, you can make a certain decision that doesn't mean that you made the right decision. Everyone's entitled to stupid decisions. On the same token that doesn't mean those decisions are necessarily wrong either.
I think the tacking on affordable and/or health insurance is leaping from the basics of human decisions into politics. While I really do wish everyone could have access to inexpensive insurance it's not so simple and by the nature of the problem cannot be. For example, however noble President Obama's healthcare plan it's a heap of rubbish.
I guess my final point is everything's really convoluted. Every decision and every act is a struggle because there are so few overarching "yes" and "no" answers. Lawyers run the world and they'll never answer simple yes or no.
Crimson - Hehehe x3. I got it! Anthropology jokes, oh so silly. I wish I knew some and it's not dorky, it's cool! Oh I absolutely wish I was presenting a paper for the conference. Who knows, it's early enough I could try to enter it. I'll probably circulate it in our criminal justice department once I've finished editing it. I have a habit of writing numerous little papers and articles that I never get around to editing x3.
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10-06-2012, 06:13 AM
The ways in which they expect you to write in different manners can also serve to pose a difficulty too. Whereas Social Anthropology heavily encourages use of critical self reflection and framing which includes references to yourself such as"I", these things can be penalized in Politics and I have heard the same applies to Psychology. Most of my enlightenment has come from the social sciences. Although I have some interest in topics which lie at the intersection between the natural and social sciences such as human nature, sociocultural identities and enculturation. I also have some interest in neuroanthropology, although most, if not all, of what I know here comes from my recreational reading of a blog on it.
@admonished -
Haha thank you. It is not that I have a list of jokes, I just saw the potential while creating my post. That is partially a good habit to have though. If you can get around to editing it will become an entirely good habit. :O Also good luck with the paper then! Hopefully things ending falling into place. Granted this will not happen as passively as that expression implies. xD
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10-06-2012, 06:20 AM
Crimson - That then is snatching the moment and creativity. If that's dorky, let's hope everyone becomes dorks x3. But... it takes so long! The problem with scholorly papers is the massive amount of editing that has to be done. You have you put your thoughts in order, reference your numbers, and all that stuff. In the case of this paper I'm working on making it a PDF with all sorts pretty graphs, lovely colors, and all of that. Nobodies willing to read a thirty-odd page on the subject on the positive aspects of a armed society without all those pretty swirling charts x3.
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10-06-2012, 06:48 AM
I don't have any experience with scholarly writing myself as I am still at an undergraduate level. I have only heard others tell me that it can be an extremely long and stress inducing process. This is when presenting a non-controversial position too. As you identify this must become even more strenuous when your perspective being presented is controversial.
Thank you for the compliments. My co-workers can be helpful there, some of them are quite fond of word plays. So we make that style of joke all day during our shifts. :P
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10-06-2012, 06:58 AM
It's a terribly frustrating experience even though it's comparatively short. I think it depends on the controversial issue, for example abortion would be a very difficult issue to tackle. I'd run away screaming if I even attempted to tackle such a subject. My subject is rather straight forward on the other-hand, only consisting of collected data with a dialogue. The data itself is not controversial or difficult to understand so I feel rather safe. The issue is taking all of that information and explaining it as one coherent thought. When I write it all makes sense in my head but it doesn't always make sense once it's on paper x3.
Aw... it sounds like you have a nice job. Where do you work?
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10-06-2012, 07:09 AM
I work at a food distribution centre which deals with chilled and frozen products. I have found working here to be quite a positive experience as it has challenged some of my preconceived notions regarding the general public. Although one day I hope to be in a situation where I can experience the difficulties involved in scholarly writing. :P
Edit: In other news, this week is going hopeless for me. At work we have a competition going where we pick the teams and margins each week for our national rugby competition. I tried playing it safe this week by not picking as many upsets as I normally would. I have gotten one game correct out of the four played so far. In that one game I did not even get the margin correct. u.u
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10-06-2012, 07:13 AM
Please tell me it involves ice cream and fruit. All the temptation, right there. Meh, the public's really not all that great, I guess that's expected for us Criminal Justice majors x3.
Do you want to work in research and the like? That would be so much fun.
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10-06-2012, 07:26 AM
Yeah, there is a section of the warehouse dedicated mostly to ice cream. This is because it needs to be stored at a slightly lower temperature than other frozen products. So if you were to go there you would see an entire aisle of nothing but ice cream. I have actually been finding the opposite. At least where I work. They have tended to display higher understandings of the social sciences than I had anticipated. Although as there are a few people there who have done Masters degrees, I am not sure how representative they are of the general public. I have still however been pleasantly surprised by some who have not done university level study. Although I do still think there is a serious need for more public intellectuals.
In some ways I would say yes to that question. The ideal with returning to complete my BA is that I can get sufficient grades to go onto my Masters. If I am to indulge in naive fantasies for a moment I would love to one day be a political anthropologist. ;o
Edit: I am going to sleep now. I shall converse with you at a later date. I enjoyed our discussion. :)
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10-07-2012, 03:54 PM
Good morning everyone how is your sunday going?
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serena yuy
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10-07-2012, 04:24 PM
Not too bad... Though also kind of not going to be relaxing or too good later.
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ElysiumFate
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10-07-2012, 06:50 PM
Work?
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serena yuy
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10-08-2012, 12:23 AM
thank god no. I have weekends off. No, it was schoolwork ^^"
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ElysiumFate
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10-08-2012, 01:02 AM
Ah, yeah that isn't any fun either.
I got the new Muse album today. Dunno if you were one of my friends that liked them, but it made me happy. ^^
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serena yuy
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10-08-2012, 01:25 AM
Oh cool. ^^ I do like them.
Now I'm tired and would like to go to bed, but have work to do. :/
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