Monday, April 28, 2025

I had
FORGOTTEN this

I liked ethics 
SO MUCH 
I was LIKE 
this philosophy stuff might be my thing 

SO
second semester 
I took
METAPHYSICS 

now I was not qualified to take that class
it was a junior level philosophy class
that, I'm pretty sure, had LOGIC 
as a prerequisite 
OR
it REALLY should have 

it was NOT what I was
EXPECTING 

I am not complaining about my grade
which might have been
a B or B minus even

BUT 
in addition to 
the class not really being
what I expected 

that prof was sexist 
he just was
nothing to do with me or my grade

just like whatever, ya know
BUT 
I had forgotten that I thought I found philosophy 
& then I said
THIS 
is probably not for ME

& THEN 
picked it BACK up
& SWITCHED
MAJORS

I had just switched to PAINTING 

painting was a competitive department 
you had to take a 
certain number of semester hours
at a certain GPA 
to be approved for the ART department 

SO
it was like three semesters

I had forgotten 

I can't remember 
WHAT got me
BACK

MAYBE it was
LOGIC one
seeing doctor nelson again

BUT 
I'm not SURE 
I don't think at this point
that I can reconstruct what I took
like semester by semester

the guy I took logic two from
I also had for 
philosophy of science--  scientific revolution 
I can't remember the exact name
it was about how
in science 
there are challenges to the status quo
& even with proofs
there is often A LOT of push back
but maybe it wasn't just that
because I vaguely remember 
dinosaurs & the comet

Austin, logic two, Phil of science 
METAPHYSICS guy
Lieber, modern philosophy 
twentieth century philosophy guy

Freeland, philosophy of women, nineteenth century philosophy, images of madness in art and philosophy 

Nelson, intro to ethics, logic one, I feel like I had two more classes with him I want to say political philosophy and philosophy and law--  but I may be conflating or opposite of conflating like splitting into two it was MOSTLY John Rawls 

I'm not sure about
what was in what order
CHRONOLOGICALLY