@sahar_tartak
for the record: the boombox people were not yale students, they were protestors who came from elsewhere in Connecticut. i watched the yale organizers ask them to stop.
@sh_wnee
when our only interactions with the Big And Scary World Out There and All Its Moving People And Parts is buying things, the only time we feel we affect that world is buying, choosing, picking "best" products,
the pleasures of agency are associated with meaningless choices.
watched all the instagram stories and was honestly very proud of so many people. good job everyone. especially all the situationshupi hookup situations that were promoted into relationships. saw a bunch of those and wow. good job.
I want there to b a campus culture where people read the creative writing that gets printed and talks about it.
I loved reading the wallace prize winners and the lit magazine and always love the herald and it would be great to see people excited about them and talking
DONT write a ten page essay in your notes app assuming you'll never hit ten pages. I just put it on docs and it is 23. and I have like. a very critical page left.
two battling big groups on cross campus and i’m in the one with modelos and nicotine addicts. the other group has way more blankets and is studying so peacefully. sometimes it’s so clear where i’m going wrong… one of them is reading paradise lost…
last semester at sunset every evening I would look down and see in the long shadow of myself all that I have done (fucked your dad, fucked your mom) and all that I wished to do (have them both at the same time). now, there is nothing to look forward to.
back in middle school I played so much bloons tower defense that sometimes at night when I closed my eyes to go to sleep I would see them. the balloons and the monkeys. vision and reason are such great gifts.
the first years sitting on the steps of the schwartzmann center look very cute and brochure and fun but
how do I tell them not do do that because it is what schwarzmann would have wanted.
before tests I get very happy and excited and start double texting and giving money away and smiling and doing as much for other people as physically possible and it’s a good strategy (to make up for how I feel after the test)
kids in the humaniteis will read something too hard and say in seminar that "actually, i think the point is that we can't understand. we're not supposed to 'get it.' density can be a device."
the ideal social group at yale is 5-7 neurotic nerds who are obsessed with themselves and one-upping eachother.
I keep finding pockets of them but they are all too established and codependent, they do not need me. need to find one as it is being developed
THINGS TO BE ADDICTED TO INSTEAD OF WEED:
- decongestant nasal sprays
- giving your child robitussin every night because it “helps him sleep”
- the rustle of language
in eleventh grade I had a small breakdown about peanut butter where I cried. I thought it was mid and that everyone was lying about loving it. I saw this as an allegory for all of life and thought that everyone was deluding themselves about love always.
but the love was real.
some advice:
for the last three meals in a row I have just agreed with everything they said and my social life has never been better. people love me now like they never have before and don’t even notice that I am just agreeing with them.
here's an accountability thread for me. im not stressed because i have more than enough time to do these things, along with pack my house, before may 10 when i leave.
- 10 page paper: 0/10
- 15 page paper: 1/15
and then we peel,, the orange,,, peel peel the ors
@ge
and we peel, the orange , peel peel the orange and then we GO . BANANAS . GO GO BABANAS AND THEN WE GO . BANANAS GO GO BANANAS AND THEN WE STOP (STOP’!!!!’n)
me eating lentils and rice and listening to music: “Aw Man. You Really Can’t Upgrade This Experience”
me realizing I can turn off the music and read my book: “Oh My God You Can…. Fuck Yeahhhh”
me realizing I can tweet about it before I do it: “Yessssss”
I love dreaming SO MUCH. had so much fun fishing in my dream. along with so many other things. great views. great scenery. even made real friendships with people I don’t actually talk to in real life!
today I learned that beer doesn't sting you when it's sprayed in your eyes but grapefruit juice does. oh and also more about how to live a good and kind life
hey all! your subtweets have been too specific lately and i’m having difficulty projecting myself into your life.
be a little more vague!!! so I can read them like they’re about me.
best,
seth
bulldog bash? parties? you think parties are fun? you don’t know the first thing about fun. listen. feats of balance. feats of coordination and strength. that’s the real deal. thats what’s actually ‘it.’ that’s where it’s at.
we need to repurpose childhood. no more “let kids have fun.” no more “ignorance and bliss.”
the purpose of childhood is to get good enough at something to be able to live for it and devote yourself to it.
haven’t actually finished a book in years. I just read the first and last chapters, shmoop it, and then look at 2~3 jstor articles
takes like a quarter of the time and you get a MUCH better analysis.
my sister is doing research on how long she can take fun classes without anyone finding out she isn’t on track to graduate uc b*rkeley. she says she doesn’t need “that part” (talking about graduating)
#endfinancialaid
#stoplettingthemgo
to school for free
this feels important:
we don't have a synonym for "ignorance" that isn't negatively connotated.
and the word ignorance, with "ignore," makes it sound intentional.
but not-knowing is one of the main human traits. and sometimes its our fault but for most people i don't think it is
reflecting on today and realizing I wore the worst outfit out of my whole year so far (rivaled by last thursday) to go up and speak in front of my 150 person lecture hall.
awake before 1pm on a weekend what the fuck am I supposed to do with this time???? this has literally never happened what are you supposed to do if you’re awake before brunch???
if you look very carefully you can see the point in each semester where I became unhappy and started rereading stuff from before college (a few from spring were for class but everything else actively hurt my schoolwork)
i’ve found a summer job! I get paid to strip the stickers and tape off of cardboard boxes. look at that pile of tape on the left! 7 hours flew by like nothing.
how are you employed, fellow anons?
some recent highlights:
-“I don’t know”
-“money”
-“money”
-“I couldn’t see myself in MechE or ChemE so I had to do BioE” (i like that they thought there are no other majors)
sometimes when people are talking about tv or books or movies you can just pretend you’ve seen it too and they won’t even notice. been doing this for years.