Philosophy

So, while not strictly a definition of the word philosophy, I am posting here my own definition of what it means to be a philosophy major:

philosophy major : one who is in the voluntary process of trading a large quantity of dogma for a small amount of knowledge. See also philosophy graduate students.

I think I may have t-shirts made.

Paul mentioned that he had pulled my blog from his list of blogs since I had not posted anything new in over a year. I figured, being at the start of a new chapter in my existence, it would be a good time to post. That is a very long introduction to the fact that I have taken up the torch and decided to make another go at finishing my philosophy degree at Rutgers. Right now, I am taking a class called Theories of Knowledge. Basically, its what I think of as 'Epistemology Light.' The only drawback is that, being a summer class, it meets 2 times a week for 4 hours at a time. I am somewhat more sleep-deprived than I can handle.

This class is over in another 2 weeks, though. Then I will be moving on to Intro to Logic for the back half of my summer. This should be a little bit easier on my logistically, as I only have to be on campus 1 night a week, since it is a web-based hybrid class.

In the course of my first month back at school, however, i have been reminded of my great love of words and dictionaries, and have decided to revive my old practice of posting about unusual or lesser-used words that I stumble across. We'll see how that goes.