Metal Reviews

They're all available for public speaking if you have enough money, my lot. With the possible exception of Corey Taylor, and thinking about it isn't Bill Dukes dead? Put Jesse Ventura in instead.

Get Slavoj Zizek to speak at your school. When he speaks, it seems as if he's on cocaine and his head is going to explode. Not to mention you'll get some amazing commentary on the state of the world and how Switzerland is causing all the problems.

Yeah Roger Federer is fuckin' the world up. Those bastards >:[

Just gave my first two seminars ever. Both were introductions to Marx for first year undergrads.

The first one only two people showed up, and it was very hard to get them talking. The second there were three people, but it was great because they'd obviously read up on Marx and even brought up "Superstructure" and "False Consciousness" of their own accord.

just had the last Applied Corporate Governance class a few hours ago and i have to say it was a really interesting course. it dealt with the relationship between shareholders, managers and the board of directors of a firm, focusing on the latter, and tackled very interesting issues, like hostile takeovers, corporate scandals, conflicts of interest, long-term value creation, and more.

i recommend it even for non business students, if your school offers it.

admittedly the teacher was one of the best professors i've ever had, loved by everyone at the university and a board member of several major portuguese companies as well, so maybe i just got lucky lol.

http://lubswww2.leeds.ac.uk/CERIC/index.php?id=374



(No. 10 in the series)

Quite pleased but also pretty nervous that stuff I wrote is actually available for the public to read and email me abuse about.

Just bought my first book for fall semester, Heidegger's Being and Time

The fun never stops, does it?

I've finally got almost all the first 15 of 55.....I should read a couple now to make things a bit less crazy later.

So far I am pretty pleased though, average size is only 250 pages, with just a few in that accursed size 10 font.

Whoa wait what 55 books? If so that is the difference between history and philosophy, I'll wrestle with those 600 pages of Heidegger the whole 15 weeks and understand it less than you understand the 10 times that amount which you'll read.

Crazy difference, isn't it? Of course, this is on the grad level, on the history undergrad level it was usually about 5 books a class, instead of say, 18-19 One Heidegger sounds like plenty; I shudder at the thought of philosophy on the graduate level.

That said, my time around here is going to be severely curtailed in a few weeks...

I might take a class where that is one of the textbooks!

An existentialism course I assume? Honestly, if you're not crazy interested in continental philosophy of the last 50 years I would avoid it like the plague.

Yeah it's an existentialism course. I sat in on a lecture from it last semester and it sounded interesting. Had two classes with the teacher too and he's pretty awesome although he tends to only get 1/5th of the way through a course's material.

I loooove existentialism and if you're aspiring to be the artsy philosophy major you have to know some Sartre or what else would you sit around and discuss while smoking short cigarettes and wearing a beret?

So my Hannah Arendt course has 10 books. It's basically everything the lady wrote. That kinda blew me away to be honest. If you don't know, Arendt was one of Heidegger's students who became his mistress until he joined the Nazi party and dumped her Jew ass. She kinda reminds me of Ayn Rand insofar as she is so reactionary.

Registered for classes for the next year.

Fall:
Aristotle
Empircists
Contemporary Moral Theory
waitlisted 3 english courses: Augustan Period, Renaissance Drama, Modern Drama up to WWII. Hoping to take two of them, listed them in order of preference.

Spring:
Kant
Rationalists

most promising two out of these three: Philosophy of Law, Advanced Studies in Logic, and Epicurianism Stoicism and Skepticism

waitlisted: Johnson, Blake, Later 18th Century Lit, Romantic Period Literature. Will take Romantic Period if I don't get into 18th century.

I guess by "chose classes" I really meant "registered for a shitload, will choose later"

Empiricists kinda suck. Berkeley is intolerable. Hume is cool in the Enquiry but is awful in the Treatise. I like Locke's political works but his epistemology is actually not too bad on second thought.

Aristotle isn't bad. Oh man contemporary moral theory? Not sure what that would cover unless it goes into some metaethics.

I love Kant but you have to have a really good professor. I've only heard negative things about courses on the Rationalists but I'll be taking one this quarter. I hate Descartes and what I've read of Leibniz' and Spinoza's is pretty cool.

I really like Symbolic Logic and post-Aristotle Hellenistic philosophy.

I am thinking of giving up on an English minor in favour of only taking 4 classes a semester and a Linguistics class this fall. I liked it more at the college I was going to because English and Creative Writing were the same thing while now at uni they're split and it's not as much fun doing only literature study crap. Augustan stuff sounds genuinely interest though. idk.

I've heard the moral theory class is no fun at all. Same with Empiricists. People who took the Rationalists said it made them appreciate Descartes more though after thinking he was a bit of a douche from intro classes.

I like logic because the teacher here is awesome and it's pretty easy for me so almost guaranteed A+.

I had two classes with the Kant teacher this summer. He's pretty awesome but falls way behind in the course material.

Got some books for Basic Nutrition 1:

Chemistry of the Biosciences: The Essential Concepts
Lippincot's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry
Metabolism At a Glance
Metabolic Regulation: A Human Perspective
Krause's Food and Nutrition Therapy
Basic Nutrition
Moder Nutrition in Health and Disease
Food and Medicine

I'm currently in a screenwriting class, and I'm adapting the video game Bad Dudes into film.

Are you a bad enough dude to make a movie?