Studying for my Social Science Final
Of course I blog more often when I really should be studying for my finals.
Procrastination is my life, man.
Anyway, I have a Social Science final tomorrow, which I think is really lame. Most social science classes at UChicago either have 3 papers, or 2 papers with the option of taking a final exam or writing a final paper. My Classics class…3 papers AND a non-optional final exam.
Thanks, professor.
Anyway, for this blog post, I will try to multitask. I shall re-read (or in some cases, read for the first time) my Social Science readings in order to prepare for my exam and blog about it.
Get ready for my valuable (ha!) thoughts.
Also, special thank you to Shmoop, a site that allows me to skim some of my Social Science readings when I really have no fucking clue what Plato is trying to communicate.
The Republic by Plato:
*Uggggh, so boring.
*Ha, I used to take detailed notes at the beginning of the quarter. I used to give a shit about academics. Oh, man… I even read the footnotes of Allan Bloom’s translation. Ha, ha, old me, you were a nerd.
*”WHAT IS JUSTICE?” How am I supposed to know?
*Socrates, shut up. Cephalus, no wonder you left. How I wish I could leave with you.
*Lord, I’m even skimming the Shmoop summaries. This is a problem.
*Socrates: “I’m going to ask for definitions from you just so I can tell you everything that’s wrong with your answers because I am a pretentious jackass who loves to talk, ha, ha, ha, LOL, LMFAO!”
*The Noble Lie: We’re all children of Mother Earth, you all. And while you is a mere bronze child and thus destined to obey me, I am a golden child. I don’t get to own private property, but I gets to make the laws!
This is total bullshit.
*Thrasymachus is getting pissed off at Socrates’s babbling. Oh, ho, ho. Man, I feel you. Too bad you’re a total jackass though.
*You speechless, Socrates? HA, HA, I WISH.
*Uggggh, I just want to go back to sleep. Blah, blah, blah…
*The best ruler is the ruler who doesn’t want to rule.
So what does that say about presidential campaigns…?
*”I should be president because all of you are morons who would be awful at ruling and I’m your least bad option.” BEST CAMPAIGN EVER.
*Factions=terrible. Okay.
*Why is this shit so well-esteemed?
*College=beneficial drudgery
*I should do a blog post while drunk. That would be so much fun.
*THE HOBBIT AND THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
*Appearances are everything, my man.
*Man, poets are being majorly dissed. I dislike poetry as much as the next person, but I would rather read poetry than this shit.
*Ruling is kind of a terrible job (look at President Obama. My, how that man has aged).
*Accept my bribes, er, sacrifices, gods!
*Essential needs:
1) Food – a woman’s got to eat, you all.
2) Housing – we civilized people need comfort.
3) Clothing – we all can’t go walking around naked. Plus, we need us some protection from Chicago winters.
*So a dog has a philosophical nature… Okay.
*YOLO.
*Socrates is in favor of censorship. Ooooh, hell to the no.
*These stories that Socrates would want to be told in his republic would be such a snooze-fest. Who wants to read about perfect, morally flawless people?
*Yo, mourning a loved one is bad. At least according to Socrates.
So be emotionless you all if you want to be intelligent.
This is bullshit.
*Ag, I’m going to go back to Buzzfeed.
