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...overstate the characteristics of the two camps a little. As a late-night person who has never had a bad trip (and gets into prime Kant-discoursing mode at around 2:00 a.m.), I can say that we night owls study just as hard as the living dead who actually make it to the breakfast service in the dining hall on a daily basis. But the difference does exist, and why do we care? We care because every year around this time—and, I’m told, in May, too—we have to take final...
...know the differences. There are those students who can wake up at 7:00 in the morning, throw on a pair of shorts and flip-flops (year-round), enthusiastically scoop froot loops, er, fruity ohs into their mouths as they discourse on Kant. And there are those who sleep through their noon classes because they only got three hours of sleep and might still be shaking off the effects of an early-morning bad trip. You know, the Mass. Hall types who occasionally play a little classical music in the ayem versus those guys who lived across the hall from...
Hygienic and cosmetic therapy. Showering, shaving, moisturizing, clipping, plucking, tweezing, waxing, tanning, spraying, cutting, washing—each hygienic and cosmetic directive becomes more important when delaying completion of that final paper. After all, who can write about Kant with uneven brows, dry skin or greasy hair? This method of procrastination often involves trips to CVS to stock up on more chapstick, shaving gel or skin care product...
...with courses focused on trivial subjects that have nothing to do with important works of the past. This is not to say that there’s no merit in studying current cultural practices or phenomena; but time in college is limited. It should be spent reading Tolstoy and Kant, not psychoanalyzing a musical from Bollywood or writing papers about the cultural impact of “Survivor...
...Approaching questions about the goodness and badness of action through reflection on the nature of action is not, or course, new. And I use the history of ethics as a guide, in particular, Rousseau and Kant,” Lavin wrote...