Monday, August 30, 2004

Life in Grad School

As I said before, everyone - or nearly everyone - is intelligent in grad school. Now some may work harder than others and some may be more intelligent than others, but there are not any idiots in grad school. The interesting thing about it is that you can have reasonable conversations with people also. If someone disagrees with another person, they tell that person why he is wrong and attempt to refute his seemingly incorrect statements. Now, obviously everyone is biased whether emotionally or intellectually. Also, people bring presuppositions and premises to every argument that they might not have grounds for, but they attempt to argue for other beliefs and ideas based upon their previously held presuppositions. It is refreshing to talk to people who are genuinely intelligent and not emotionally driven pseudo-intellectuals and not able to think coherently. I like grad school.

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