Miscellanea
Things I need to remember:
• Asking for help is not, as it turns out, fatal.
• Laughing is easier than pulling your hair out, and doesn't have the unfortunate side effect of making you look like a plague victim.
• Even the biggest tasks can be defeated if taken a bit at a time.
• I can write a paper the night before it's due, but the results are not all they could be.
• Be thorough, but focused.
• Trust yourself.
• Honesty, always.
Historians are the Cassandras of the Humanities
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Date: November 3rd, 2010 03:45 pm (UTC)I'm amazed at how many people buy into this simplistic crap. It may have been true once - although I dispute that, because it may never have been true - but it certainly isn't now. Social mobility has all but disappeared - the rich have worked out how to ring-fence their wealth and keep it away from the poor. "Trickle-down" is a fallacy, and it's amazing how many people fail to see that.