My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)
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My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)
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#2This is pretty surreal, and feels like the beginning of a script for a Hollywood movie.
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#3So weird, but so believable.
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#4I'm a student at Berea College, which is like Deep Springs College (tuition free, everyone works etc.), but it's a bit bigger. It's a decent college and some work on the campus farm. Most of the faculty are from top tier colleges or are reputable scholars. A few students have transferred to top tier colleges as well. Anyway, the 60 minutes episode about Deep Springs is a good watch!
Re: My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)
#5I'm a student at Berea College, which is like Deep Springs College (tuition free, everyone works etc.), but it's a bit bigger. It's a decent college and some work on the campus farm. Most of the faculty are from top tier colleges or are reputable scholars. A few students have transferred to top tier colleges as well. Anyway, the 60 minutes episode about Deep Springs is a good watch!
From the article:
"My visit to Deep Springs College taught me, in no uncertain terms, to be extremely careful about trusting anyone. Whether it is trusting a leader, trusting the numbers an institution claims, or trusting someone who is making an argument to you about this or that. A substantial majority of the people, institutions, and others we encounter in our day-to-day lives are completely full of shit. Everything is a facade and you really do not know what is real and what is not."
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#6I drive past there semi-regularly since one of the experiments I work on is in the White Mountains (near Barcroft Station) and Deep Springs is on the way between Las Vegas and the experiment site. Would be fun to try to visit sometime...
Re: My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)
#7I'm a student at Berea College, which is like Deep Springs College (tuition free, everyone works etc.), but it's a bit bigger. It's a decent college and some work on the campus farm. Most of the faculty are from top tier colleges or are reputable scholars. A few students have transferred to top tier colleges as well. Anyway, the 60 minutes episode about Deep Springs is a good watch!
I have a broom made by the student workshop at Berea and it’s a delightful tool, never thought I would enjoy sweeping.
Re: My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)
#8I drive past there semi-regularly since one of the experiments I work on is in the White Mountains (near Barcroft Station) and Deep Springs is on the way between Las Vegas and the experiment site. Would be fun to try to visit sometime...
Is that on highway 168? Beautiful drive. Always loved the Westgaard Pass.
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#9> One of the most embarrassing moments came when they asked me a question about Carl Jung, whom I had quoted in one of my essays. I had included a few lines about how Carl Jung believed this or that.
> “Have you ever actually read any books by Carl Jung?” one of the students asked me.
> “No, I’ve never read a single thing by him,” I answered truthfully.
> “Then how can you possibly have a large quote from him in your essay, base an essay around his teachings and also lead us to believe that you know what you are talking about?”
> It was a really good question and he had a point. The rest of the experience and all of the questions went basically like this: I would say one thing and they would contradict me and accuse me of not really understanding what I was talking about.
This is a big paradox of modern society: most of what people believe is bullshit.
But you can’t go around saying people believe bullshit, because they are people, and worthy of respect.
The best solution is to focus on contributing new knowledge, not destroying the bullshit.
It would have been much more impressive if a student actually addressed the ideas attributed to Jung, or explained why the quote was misleading.
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#10I recall having a conversation with one of the most brilliant people I ever knew in high school. This was the college he wanted to attend. I hadn't heard of it before and later in the conversation referred to it as Palm Springs and could see the frustration on his face. Not the same vibe. He wasn't long for this world, died jogging in Japan and his parents didn't find out a week later until he was already cremated. As they say in Blade Runner: "the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long."