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fermentedphil (77)in #roadtrip • 3 days ago
Driving Through South Africa on a Road Trip: From Pretoria to Stellenbosch Through My Camera
You wake up at 3 am. Outside of your window, everything is still dark. This early, 3 am, has always been a strange hour in the morning. Some call it a devilish hour, when strange…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 7 days ago
"Luck is Limitless Horizons"
The words were printed on someone's shirt. "Luck is Limitless Horizons". I think it is a gym slogan, or so it looked. It was just a random scene I walked past. No real…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 13 days ago
The Speeding Up of Life: A Book Contract, A Post-Doctoral Fellowship, and Chaos
I have been wanting to slow down for a while now, especially after my PhD, but it feels like things are just moving faster and faster. I was awarded a short term post-doctoral…
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fermentedphil (77)in #travel • 2 months ago
Day 2 in the Kruger National Park: Driving to Tindlovu Restaurant Berg-En-Dal Rest Camp
The second day of our Kruger National Park drive started as the previous one: early morning arriving at the gate with the sun barely breaching the horizon. It was again looking…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 2 months ago
Leaving Behind 2025: Thinking Back on a Crazy Year
Thinking back on the crazy year on the eve of the new year has become a normal part of ending the year off. Maybe this is because of the ingrained normalcy of thinking about life…
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fermentedphil (77)in #travel • 2 months ago
Day 1 in the Kruger National Park: Driving to Tshokwane Trading Post & Picnic Site
The Beginning of a New Journey We woke up early, as always. Kruger National Park vacations are always linked to getting up early in the morning. We had some precious memories…
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urban.scout (63)in #degree • 2 months ago
My absence: A year of reading and writing (a lot)
The year of opportunity I finished my honours degree this year at the University of Pretoria specialising in Afrikaans, but it was the most difficult and busiest year I have…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 2 months ago
Can we breathe now?
The journey is finally over. It is definitely bitter sweet. It is over, but not the end. It is in fact a new beginning, a new journey, or one that I am merely taking into the…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 3 months ago
Somehow I Survived the Academic Nightmare | Diary of a Struggling and Failing Philosopher
Somehow, I just managed to survive. My story is by no means unique, or different. Absolutely not. In fact, I think I might be better off than most. Either way, it felt to me…
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fermentedphil (77)in #hivebirthday • 3 months ago
Celebrating 8 Years on Hive - Looking Back at the Journey (and Becoming a Doctor)
I am not going to lie. I forgot about my Hive birthday. I haven't been able to write anything in a month. I have been planning on writing something along the lines of selling my…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 4 months ago
What Even is Philosophy? And Who are Philosophers?
A question has been bothering me, burning itself into my mind from all of the thinking about it: "What even is philosophy, and who is a philosophy?" Let us begin with the…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 5 months ago
Somehow Managing To Survive AI Slop and Crumbling Academia | Diary of a Failing Philosopher
Somehow, I managed to survive 30 or so days of academic hell. The hell is still with me, but I have a small breather in which I can now reflect on my inability to comprehend…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 6 months ago
I Am Failing to Keep My End of the Bargain ...
It is not often that I write about my writings on Hive. It is even less often that I write about my life beyond what I already share. Yesterday, I told my father that if I…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 6 months ago
Apparently I am a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Now...
I was asked to come back into the hallroom (or more specifically the MS Teams meeting link where I just defended my PhD). " It is with great pleasure that we can now call you…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 6 months ago
What Even is This World?
I am stuck in a strange feedback loop where what goes in does not translate to what comes out, but I am addicted to this strangeness. Yet this strangeness is not alterity…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 6 months ago
Have I Taken On Too Much? - Diary of a Struggling Philosopher
Saying no is an artform that I have not yet mastered. On a regular basis, I receive CFAs and CFPs. In academia, these are call for abstracts and call for papers, which simply are…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 8 months ago
Finally Submitting My PhD After 4 Years ...
It has been almost exactly 1520 days since I registered as a PhD student without a research proposal. I never planned to do a PhD, as I made my family promise me that they…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 8 months ago
Being Engaged for One Year and Drowning in PhD Nonsense | Diary of a Struggling Philosopher
it has been a year my dear and we have seen the world but we have also come to know the smallness of our room the thoughts plastered against the wall only to fall to the…
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fermentedphil (77)in #philosophy • 9 months ago
AI ChatBots are Ruining Education Because Educational Frameworks are not Changing (Or Because Lecturers Do Not Want to Change Their Ways)
In the last six or so months, I have marked about 500 examination papers or essays. (In philosophy, we mostly write essay examinations, and most of them in South Africa are take…
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fermentedphil (77)in #academia • 10 months ago
Marking 500 Philosophy Exam Papers Will Crush Your Soul | A Philosopher's Diaries
I did not know what I expected. But my situation is also not unique by all means. I am in fact luckier than others - but that then brings me back to the first statement: I did…
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