I have two settings when writing:
there’s something endlessly hilarious to me about the phrase “hotly debated” in an academic context. like i just picture a bunch of nerds at podiums & one’s like “of course there was a paleolithic bear cult in Northern Eurasia” and another one just looks him in the eye and says “i’l kill you in real life, kevin”
apparently lucidchart.com is free for students, so I made a little test chart while learning the ropes.
free tip: don’t go to grad school
reading these court cases is making me so glad that I’m doing museum studies and not law. I keep grumbling things like “ex post facto? seriously? just say ‘after the fact’, you unbearably pretentious legal fuckers” at these documents
if anyone wants to improve their academic writing dramatically, pick up a copy of They Say, I Say by Berkenstein and Graff
it’s simple, direct, and game-changing; it’ll make you think about the mechanics of academic debate in a far more systematic way without once being dull or wordy or confusing. 10/10, would build a time machine and give this to my 18-year-old self if I could
purpleplunderbunny replied to your post: hideflen replied to your post: we had our first…
it was inevitable
YOU ESPECIALLY because we’ve been LJ/tumblr friends for like…. god it must be nearly 10 years now, and went to college for totally different things, but we managed to both independently end up doing museum studies MAs.
THIS IS A CONTINUING SOURCE OF HILARITY FOR ME tho my MA is public history??? so its not sooooo bad?? like
no it’s still pretty hilarious
dear god i think it HAS been almost ten years
OOPS sorry I was close??? I lose track of who is in which museum-adjacent field honestly.
and yeah it’s definitely hilarious. museum-y people cluster like nobody’s business. one of my roommates has an MA in library science and the other one has an MA in archives, and we did not plan this. it’s ridiculous.
we had our first group meeting with all eight of us who share the same thesis committee chair today and she was in the middle of explaining the timeline when I saw a hummingbird hovering outside the conference room window and automatically gasped “HUMMINGBIRD!” aloud and then immediately slapped my hands over my mouth in horror as the professor broke off mid-sentence and everyone spun around in their chairs to look
hire me I disrupt important meetings by pointing out birds
copyright law day 1 day ends in watching a clip from A Very Potter Musical
not sure how relevant to museum law this is but I do love this professor
I’m reading a copyright case for my Legal Issues class and they decided to use the weirdest fucking metaphor possible for distinguishing between fair use and copyright infringement:
“The core of copyright’s protective purposes are not much use in […] separating the fair use sheep from the infringing goats in a parody case, since parodies almost invariably copy publicly known, expressive works.”
what the fuck, judge who wrote that.
A Pretty Taste for Paradox 