a lot of :
- "shit, i miscalculated what courses i needed to take this semester so i'm not going to meet all of my requirements to graduate on time"
- showing up to class one day and having to take an exam i didn't know about
- missing an exam
- failing an assignment that represented a large portion of my grade and trying to figure out if i can still somehow pass the class
occasionally they skew social; finding myself back in high school and sharing space with people i haven't seen in many years but understanding them through the lens i understand them now, but still being stuck in the social dynamic i had with them then
Mar 28, 2024
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recently i have been having a lot of dreams in relation to being in high school or college again. usually it’s an amalgamation of both together where people from both parts of my life show up. and it’s never at my old high school or college, but a better institution with better buildings. it’s been 6 years since i have been in a school environment 😂
Feb 6, 2025
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i was talking with a friend still in college the other day and he mentioned topics where i was like - yeah i remember learning about that but i barely know anything about it. unless you study or reminder yourself about this stuff every so often you will completely forget it. like why did i spend 16 years in the classroom destined to forget most of it??? u think there’d be a better way for ppl to figure out what theyd like and need to know early on and teach them that
Apr 11, 2025
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im graduating this may (feels weird to be saying this after 4 years), and im doing all of the random things that I can do only as a student. like, getting a bagel from our main student hub by myself and people watching! or, inviting a friend to meet up at the library and drink chai lattes while chatting about our day. i know im gonna miss doing these tiny things once i get thrown into “the real world” and doing these little things help keep me sane.
Jan 30, 2025
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
