Losing my sense of taste | Rohan's Rambles
Sometimes I look back over my journal to see what is repeatedly on my mind. Complaints about PPE figure heavily: 2023/11/25: I have a philosophy essay to write and I don’t want to. I have a feeling [next term] will be like this a lot 2024/02/12: I’m looking at the word doc for my genphil essay now and just feeling an immense frustration that I am meant to write about such a stupid + boring + infuriating topic. 2024/02/14: found politics reading dull and wanted to be doing almost anything else Yet I don’t like the idea of failing to do my work: 2024/02/19: [quiet quitting] feels ~deontologically wrong to me. Would be uncomfortable not following rules to hand in seven essays, etc etc. Until about a month ago, I had been doing all the essays set With the exception of the Q-Step politics assignment, because I really couldn’t stand having to make some graphs in R for the sake of it. I had a look in the Exam Regulations to check that it wasn’t an official part of Prelims PPE (it’s not), and
Losing my sense of taste | Rohan's Rambles Losing my sense of taste First published: 30 May 2024 ; Last modified: 01 October 2025 Sometimes I look back over my journal to see what is repeatedly on my mind. Complaints about PPE figure heavily: 2023/11/25: I have a philosophy essay to write and I don't want to. I have a feeling [next term] will be like this a lot 2024/02/12: I'm looking at the word doc for my genphil essay now and just feeling an immense frustration that I am meant to write about such a stupid + boring + infuriating topic. 2024/02/14: found politics reading dull and wanted to be
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