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In my Bachelor thesis I’ve indulged myself and named two chapters after J.D. Salinger works, one after a Doctor Who episode and gave the whole thing an edited version of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’s title. I mean, why the hell not?

The demands of a child’s nature must be taken into account to some extent or they will become crazy wackadoodles.
My notes on Neil Postman’s The Disappearance of Childhood

Potential thesis title. Thoughts?

Misconception number 9: Humans have five senses. Wrong. Humans have way more than five senses. The five senses were identified by Aristotle. And here’s a little rule of thumb: Aristotle, while he is very famous and everything, is almost. always. WRONG.
THANK YOU, JOHN GREEN. I’ve been trying to convince my fellow students of this for almost three years now. And this goes double for the current first years, since they still seem to take him seriously for some reason. Poor, misguided creatures. And yes, I am aware of how condescending that is. 

Late night cup of tea and going to bed early. I’m planning to take one final sprint with my final final, which is due on Friday. It’s about French existentialism, so I have to know stuff about Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus, which is horrific. I sucked during classes, so I’m a little nervous about the exam. Oh well.

The Case of the Fourteen-Year-Old Girl.

Philosophers are perverts.