the election results are going to take a few days. The world is going to be very tense. I want you to take all the things you like to do to distract yourself and splurge on them. I want you to go eat your favroite foods and spend time with friends. I want you to do what you gotta do to make sure you can make it through the week.
There are people out there who want you to survive. There are people out there who are just as scared as you are.
Today is Election Day in the United States, and Prairie Dawn wants to remind everyone who has not voted already to make a plan to vote today! Together we can make a difference!
John Oliver platforms Palestinian voices as he advocates for voting for Harris.
If you live in a swing state, please properly consider your role in this election. Remember to distrust the polls, the projections – the presidential election will be infuriatingly close. Nothing is set in stone.
Please think about your queer friends and family, your community that includes people of colour, disabled people, poor people, immigrants. Evaluate the true historical value of what a protest vote does – compare it to the two candidates, one of which will be the president at the end of this final stretch.
So it’s come my attention that there are a lot of students, particularly in humanities and social sciences disciplines, who need to hear this, so here goes:
Do the readings.
Oh my God, just do the readings. I promise, it gets easier once you get into the habit of it.
What makes a good student? Doing the readings. Literally just doing the readings is enough to make you a good student.
The readings *are* the course. The lectures are just priming you for the readings. The tutorials and seminars are just how we collectively process the readings. If the readings were intended to be optional, they would have been listed under the “optional readings” heading.
“Oh, but I’m so good at bullshitting” No. You’re not. The professor is giving you the benefit of the doubt. The professor is trying to fill in the blanks in the vague, general statements that you’re making because they’re not there to judge your worth as an individual, they’re there to teach you the bloody course. And that becomes vastly more effective, collectively, for everybody, when you Do The Readings!
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