tfw i cite an old prof of mine in a paper
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this guy is one of the most influential people i've ever met in my academic life
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even if I don't always agree with him, he really sparked something in my head when it came to critically thinking about sources of info
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and he was one of the most anti-Classical education old people i've ever met. He went in HARD on his colleagues who were like that
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seriously he berated this one guy he knew at the U of Edinburgh way back for using the word "tribe" in his paper for like 15 mins in class
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actually it was a book. i had to do a book review/presentation sort of thing and i used the word tribe as i was quoting this guy
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and my prof just fuckin WENT FOR IT. it was awesome.
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oh and he was the first prof I met that told me that the Vikings weren't all Scandinavian and by the end of the Viking age...
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...would have included people from all over, i.e. Africa, Middle East, etc.
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@AdmiralHip "viking" pretty much turned into a business network after awhile1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@Khazar222 pretty much. but i was shocked that an old white dude even acknowledged this. i was like, this class is THE SHIT.
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