Dear voters: meet Stan Li. His lifelong dream, since his birth last June, has been to hold public office and help Americans build a better, fairer economy, and a more equitable and happy society for humans and pets alike. Unlike some of his dog park opponents, Stan has no beef with cats, and is more…
18 Things To Do While You Are Under House Arrest Due To COVID-19: An Anthology
What a time to be alive. Have you guys seen the flatten the curve graph? Only twenty-nine times? Well, hopefully you got the message, then! If you are a good person not a psychopath and your employer is good not a psychopath either, you are probably at home right now, grateful that you are still…
How NOT to find a job
Recently, my friend and website collaborator, Patrick P. Calderon, published an essay on how to get a job. But, in this day and age, with so much commodity fetishism around us all, who wants to really get a job, anyway? No, no. I think the true guide we need is how NOT to get a…
How to Find a Job
Today I’d like to discuss strategies for procuring gainful employment. You might perhaps object that I am, as a recruiter might scribble in the margins of my resume, “not qualified” to dispense advice on this subject. On this score you’d be right. Four years and 17 Lehrmda posts ago (1 Lehrmda post = ~85 days),…
Great Quotes from Academia: A Marxist Reappropriation of Surplus Academic Value
Scholarship, in any field, is a sujet sérieux. It is the noble, dignified enterprise of making the unknown known, of pursuing heights of knowledge and understanding never before attained. While bourgeois oppression of the proletariat and elitist monopolization of peer-reviewed journals prevents some of the best insights from academia from reaching the general public—the demos, as it were—we have…
We like Westworld: an unpaid ad.
Every four years or so, Patrick Calderon decides he will stop being stubborn and will at last listen to my TV/movie recommendations. Recently, he finally caved and binge-watched all two seasons of the HBO show Westworld. Given how hard it has been to convince Patrick and a few other friends to get into this show,…
Friend Review: Emma Venter
This is a post from the series “Friend Review”. In this series, we review a mutual friend. In this post, we would like to review Emma Venter. Emma Venter (Fig. 1) is a writer, philosopher, and literary scholar, notably known for being the daughter of famous South-African/American psychologist Anre Venter. Emma, intimately known as “Anre’s…
10 Things We Don’t Like (April)
Pictured: something we do like, simply for the purposes of clickbait. Also things we don’t like: clickbait. 2/10. This is the second in our “series” of posts about things we do not like. “Series” is in “scare quotes,” not only because we have thus far failed to master the complexities of English grammar (TOEFL score: 114, IELTS…
A Cupcake, Revisited: First Reflections as a Graduate Student
Above: If graduate school were a food item, it would be an expired, half-eaten cupcake that you decide to eat because of nostalgic attachment to memories of a previously good, food-standards-compliant cupcake. I recently returned to Notre Dame to take up a master’s degree program, thus remedying my mistake of studying only the humanities as…
10 Things We Don’t Like (August)
This is the August post of our new series: Things We Don’t Like. In this series, we will discuss things we, in fact, do not like. This is a heavily biased post that will be negatively reviewing things that didn’t quite make the cut for the “I like this” cluster in our heads. Things We…
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