Another valuable thing I've learnt this year, besides constructing arguments and finding my own voice is learning how universities function- and how academics think. I've begun to understand what being an academic is, and the purpose of academia itself.
Context is key, building an argument is half the battle. You add small bits of new information and thought into previous arguments. Breakthroughs either involve turning an argument or viewpoint on its head is a rare or synthesizing ideas and concepts from different fields and history. So many interesting philosophies have been lost in all the information we have access to- it seems entire schools of thought are fads.
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