So, here I am in Fairview.\u00a0 Me and Sam spent quite a few weeks moving in, and now everything’s totally set up.<\/p>\n
Actually, we were done a few weeks ago, but for some reason my blog kept glitching and I never wrote about it.\u00a0 But yeah.\u00a0 First month of school is almost over, and I must say I’m feeling a lot better about this year than I did about last year.\u00a0 Honestly, I’m not sure I could reccomend the PPE program to any new students.\u00a0 While I met some interesting people and I liked most of my professors, I horribly failed at all of my economics classes.\u00a0 I’ve found a lot of students had\u00a0 similar problems in that the students who enjoyed economics hated the philosophy aspect.\u00a0 The thing is, philosophy, political science and economics all are connected, because the latter two owe their existence to philosophy, but they don’t go together that well anymore.<\/p>\n
However, this year I’m not on a standardized timetable and I find I greatly prefer what I’m doing now.\u00a0 I don’t have any classes I dread going to or\u00a0 fail to understand.\u00a0 Even though I see my future in mostly analytic philosophy, I think my favorite class right now is Existentialism.\u00a0 I’d actually reccomend it to people who hate philosophy as well as people who like it.\u00a0 It’s just an all-around enjoyable class no matter what your background is, and the professor has a really good energy to his lectures.<\/p>\n
If you’ve been reading Sam’s blog, you know we both joined seven clubs last week.\u00a0 My favorite of these is the Freethinkers.\u00a0 It’s a fairly new club at UBC, I think less than a year old, but I’m really glad they’re here now.\u00a0 They’re affiliated with the Center for Inquiry<\/a>, which doesn’t have a large presence in Vancouver currently, but hopefully that will change over time.<\/p>\n All in all, the most depressing thing in my life is reading Kierkegaard.\u00a0 Which, to be fair, is really depressing, but as a whole that says good things about my situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, here I am in Fairview.\u00a0 Me and Sam spent quite a few weeks moving in, and now everything’s totally set up. Actually, we were done a few weeks ago, but for some reason my blog kept glitching and I never wrote about it.\u00a0 But yeah.\u00a0 First month of school is almost over, and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,378,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-clubs","category-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}