Tag Archives: School

Learning to Drown

Learning a new language is something like learning to drown, at least at the level I’ve been taking it. This Summer I’ve nearly made it through an eight-week intensive course in the German Language, and I can attest that the drowning simile is somewhat accurate (or just useful).
This might seem to be a bleak way [...]

Academia and Serious Students

Lately I have been thinking about College. What occupies me is not limited to exams, papers, and classes—but the institution itself and how we fit into it. An example from class, though, would be appropriate. At the beginning of the quarter, I was told that Kant’s Critique of Judgment is a discussion of how “nature [...]