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by noam » Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:00 pm
i studied at Leeds, they have a great analytic philosophy department, and as you get to third year a brilliant Metaphysics staff
aas i said, its a degree where you get out of it entirely what you put in, enjoying it is a weird one, i really enjoyed aspects of it, the feeling of accomplishment is satisfying when you really crack something
i really enjoyed the freedom to express ideas, but you are ofcourse constrained within the limits of academic study, which means you can be jumping through hoops, in that regard its actually easy to do well, but you have to be focused and just do the work you're given
i spent ages being a prick about my work and not taking it seriously, i barely attended and was generally a shit student
but when i worked, and worked hard, i enjoyed it so much more, the progress you can make in terms of thinking is really great, but it simportant to know that it wont necessarily make you the most employable person in the world... that said, i have a good mate in london who passed his business degree with a 1st and was awarded the top business student in the country or some shit like that and he's still unemployed now so there ya go
i started doing politics electives in first year, quit that, politics is interesting, but really, in philosophy you should pick some philosophy electives, the more you do the more cross-referencing you can bring in,from different theories and thinkers, which makes you a stronger student, you can also do Political Philosophy etc. but that stuff is basically as useless as you get, if you're gona do philosophy either do Continental/Psychological philosophy or go fully analytic and go down the logic route... logic is basically like linguistic algebra/programming
fook me looks epic
