7pm Tuesday: Embodying Agency As Cultural Mediators
Abstract: The average vacuum specific impulse of hydrogen/oxygen liquid propellant rocket stages is 451 seconds. Every now and then, they launch satellites.
You're absolutely right. I transferred from (a very good) community college in one of the most conservative parts of California, to a University of Cal..
I loved my general ed. social science courses I took at CC, and the experience made me think it suited me better than STEM. Then I went to university and got totally turned off of it. It's no-joke, just as bad as the memes and conservative radio hosts/pundits suggest it is. Identity this, equity that. White man is responsible for all the evil in the world. It's all fluff, and zero science.
This reminds me of my elementary school music classes: they seemed specifically designed to make me hate making music, and full of silly syllables and mnemonics that I have never seen anywhere since, and I dang near live with a church band and one a score book for an album in a change the lyrics contest. Also all the music lesson books I found in an unrelated school's storage room while I was sorting stuff.
There really is something to this phenomenon, which can occur in almost any field. And music is a great example. I think it stems from the uppity/arrogant leading minds of a given field wanting there to be more formality and rigor to their field than may be necessary. Can discourage people who otherwise might have taken a stronger interest.
It's not always born out malicious/deceptive compensation for a lack of real substance (like the OP satirizes), and there can be benefits for classifying and organizing concepts which are difficult to describe or talk about casually, for the sake of detailed scientific discussion.
Personally, I found social science to be easy to learn, when presented intelligently. Including complex concepts. The best lecturers I had were always able to explain the concepts in no-BS, intuitive terms. The worst lecturers (who always used this technobabble) failed to make even simpler concepts make sense. Really awful.
I didn't study music for more than a couple years in grade school, plus some DJing in college. But I also found music to be something that comes naturally, and learned through practical tutoring and/or self-teaching, if one is ever to become talented. Don't imagine many people really make it in music, by reading the textbooks and knowing all the terms.
Historicizing Power Structures through a Critical Lens
7pm Tuesday: Embodying Agency As Cultural Mediators
Abstract: The average vacuum specific impulse of hydrogen/oxygen liquid propellant rocket stages is 451 seconds. Every now and then, they launch satellites.
It occurs to me you might get a kick out of CBR headline generator. You might also get a kick of pasting "Top Five..." titles and ones where the subject and object reside in the same fictional universe into search. Where was the CFTV video *flip*flip* ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ELKSfNzcQc ...there's two? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5Nvv15ZXw
Love this. Thanks, my friend!
You're absolutely right. I transferred from (a very good) community college in one of the most conservative parts of California, to a University of Cal..
I loved my general ed. social science courses I took at CC, and the experience made me think it suited me better than STEM. Then I went to university and got totally turned off of it. It's no-joke, just as bad as the memes and conservative radio hosts/pundits suggest it is. Identity this, equity that. White man is responsible for all the evil in the world. It's all fluff, and zero science.
This reminds me of my elementary school music classes: they seemed specifically designed to make me hate making music, and full of silly syllables and mnemonics that I have never seen anywhere since, and I dang near live with a church band and one a score book for an album in a change the lyrics contest. Also all the music lesson books I found in an unrelated school's storage room while I was sorting stuff.
There really is something to this phenomenon, which can occur in almost any field. And music is a great example. I think it stems from the uppity/arrogant leading minds of a given field wanting there to be more formality and rigor to their field than may be necessary. Can discourage people who otherwise might have taken a stronger interest.
It's not always born out malicious/deceptive compensation for a lack of real substance (like the OP satirizes), and there can be benefits for classifying and organizing concepts which are difficult to describe or talk about casually, for the sake of detailed scientific discussion.
Personally, I found social science to be easy to learn, when presented intelligently. Including complex concepts. The best lecturers I had were always able to explain the concepts in no-BS, intuitive terms. The worst lecturers (who always used this technobabble) failed to make even simpler concepts make sense. Really awful.
I didn't study music for more than a couple years in grade school, plus some DJing in college. But I also found music to be something that comes naturally, and learned through practical tutoring and/or self-teaching, if one is ever to become talented. Don't imagine many people really make it in music, by reading the textbooks and knowing all the terms.
Reinterpreting Forms of Oppression as a Site of Political Contestation.
I am going to have so much fun with this! Thanks for sharing.
Critiquing Queerness As Violence. In today's media, that title probably already exists, SAD!
Are you OK?: Identifying Erasure As a Form of Erasure
When are you making a payment or two: Identifying Narratives As A Form Of Erasure
Somehow so appropriate...
No kidding. Pretty dead-on
That one sounds controversial, even from their perspective lmao
What this reminds me of... Go ahead and laugh; I sure did.
A 3x2x2: Signaling Narratives As a Site of Political Contestation
seems legit
social science currently sucks, but I'm minoring in economics cuz econ is cool
I did the same, but as a major! Econ is fun, and useful. Good luck, my man.
A reading of Queerness as violence. DT June
Gobbledygook for morons
Redefining Forms of Oppression as Transformative Justice.
Maybe not my real info.
Do you want this rabbit, it's small but you can use it for a stew | ....
This could be an interesting essay.