College Is Over... What's Next?
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2022
- A brief catch-up episode on the future of my content & ambitions.
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My course on writing essays in the humanities: skl.sh/3ow0m2G
My new course on keeping a writer's diary:
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My Essays:
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My playlist on Reading:
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My collaborative novel about Melbourne: There's A Tale To This City:
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My short story collection Passing Tales: rcwaldun.com/publication
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Congratulations on graduating. We all hope to see you get a decent career somehow. Best of luck to you always. We will be here to support you.
You certainly should continue your path to being a university professor! You have a natural gift for teaching. My son, ever since he was a teenager had a love for art and a natural gift for teaching. As a teen he taught art classes for kids and adults for extra money. Today he is an art professor at a university here in the States and doing very well.
It sounds like a great plan. I studied for seven years straight for my undergrad, honours and then a two year Masters Degree in creative writing - my gift to myself for my 60th birthday. However, a few months after graduating, Covid hit, and as a clinically vulnerable adult I was housebound for the better part of two years. Since then I've struggled to get back into a routine of research, writing, etc. So my suggestion would be, as part of your plan, perhaps look at ways/videos on how graduates can keep themselves motivated once studies are over, and be able to keep a routine intact as life changes start happening. Would you consider this topic?
That's an excellent suggestion! I'll keep that in mind. :)
@@RCWaldun Great - looking forward to seeing the vids. Thanks.
Love that idea of doing a close reading video, cannot wait! I feel like each year in your Academic Journey is like a new Infinity Stone. Once you get the PhD you get to snap your fingers
Awesome analogy. :)
Congratulations! Well done! 😊
Looking forward to your new path and congrats on your first years!
You already are an excellent teacher! I think you are on a very good path.
Amazing new video! While I may not go into the humanities, it's great to hear your different perspective compared to most stem majors. I find that your insight into literature brings me great joy and motivates me to learn and read more, I may never be as good as you are at reading, but I'll continue to try my best even with my subpar skills.
Robin, congrats on your achievements and future plans!! It's been inspiring to follow you over the past year or two - so much growth, both in what you've learned about literature and also about making content. I hope you enjoy at least a little time off before your next endeavor and I'm glad the UA-cam channel is here to stay. 😌📚
Congratulations! Good luck with your pursuit of higher education and your career. I look forward to your future content - it sounds really interesting.
Congratulations!!, I really hope the best for you and thanks for teaching me how to improve my knowledge.
Literally just remembered about this guy and spent over an hour scouring my youtube history from 2 years ago to find him! Worth it! Loved the types of things he was saying and talking about back then so let's see how he has progressed!
So exciting for your postgraduate journey, hope you will embody the breakthrough you long for and keep up the great content on here
Love the plan of creating a bridge of practicality between the texts and modern day application. Looking forward to it!
I’m so glad to hear about your future path! Selfishly, I look forward to more academic content from you for years to come. 😊 Congratulations on accomplishing your first milestone!
your videos are the only thing giving me even an inkling of inclination to complete my current studies at this point :)
Another great video! Thanks for sharing!
Cheers from Brazil!
Congratulations on graduating! Good luck with your future studies and career! 🎉
Congratulations R.C.!
Watching your channel has lightbulbs going off in my brain. It has made my life better. I have a bachelors and masters degree in economics. You are one of the best teachers I have ever had. Thank you for continuing on this path and bringing your UA-cam students with you.
All the best to you. Being in school forever would be my dream life!
Congratulations on graduating !!! ✨🐝✨ you are amazing , good luck in with whatever you choose to do in the future☺
All d best for the future RC!.
I can’t wait to watch you progress! I’ve learned a lot from you already, and I think any future student of yours would love to have you as a teacher
Congratulations on finishing your first jumping board. Your plans are great and I have no doubt that you will reach your goal, if it hangs around. Or find another one. :-)
As a casual enjoyer of your channel, congrats and looking forward for more stuff in the future even though I don't watch all of it! 👍👍
Looking forward to this!
Congratulations on graduating! It’s always really inspiring seeing how passionate you are about education and excites me about how much more things you’re going to teach and share with us in the future!
Congratulations!
Congratulations on graduating and I cannot wait to see your progess (I'm graduating too next semester, so I know how that feels)
Congratulations on graduating, Robin. I can't wait to see you continue your journey with academia. This is very exciting, it's crazy how time flies.
congrats man!
I love your channel and the things you talk about doing in the future are exactly the kind of thing that I actually wanna see on youtube. If you have any suggestions for other channels who already do the stuff you talked about, please let me know.
Congraduation Waldun!
I'm waiting for "bookshelf tour" content^^
this video appeared on my feed literally after taking my first entrance exam. i'm looking forward to this stage of life. congrats on graduating !!!
I also just graduated with a BA in English and WOW do i feel lost. One side of me wants to go back and do med school but one side of me wants to pursue exactly what you're doing right now. Your video gave me comfort as it reminded me that no matter which path I take it'll be okay because I chose it.
i hope you're doing good now!!
Congratulations 🤗💫.
I also just graduated. What’s funny and I agree is that more I learn the more I understand that I don’t know. The more I appreciate someone focusing on just a single skill such as making sushi or writing a book.
Congratulations, youngster !
I feel like I came across your videos at a much needed time in my life. I've graduated from my bachelors but have put my masters - which I absolutely want to get to in this lifetime! - on the backburner due to financial insecurity. By sheer luck I've managed to nab an office job which I hope will be able to provide some security and routine so I can continue to work towards my postgrad.
All of this happened and then I came across your channel just as I started asking myself, "what now? How do I recover?" I feel so fatigued and drained from education (the system and institute, not the pure act of it) that this "break" feels like a blessing in disguise. How can I rebuild my stamina and realise what works for me, what I want to put my time and money into? I'm sure that all will come with time and a healthy amount of probing. And rest
What would be really interesting is to post day in the life or something where you go out and engage in life . I know that will boost the views and you did this one video a while ads where you changed your college and I loved that video so much. I probably watched around 20 times
I wish I could give you a big warm tribute for this fascinating video. I, too, adore spending all my time and resources on the pursuit of literary passions! It is a passion that wells deep within me, from the nape to the uterus; it is of the earth, earthy. In fact, I would enjoy giving you a pamphlet on the secret of which I and Alexander Pushkin belonged, and which was the source of his death. Do you also, perchance, enjoy the works of Mishima? I wish to live and act like him.
The greater knowledge is in knowing that you know nothing. As a fellow literature student myself I'm really happy for you, I was so proud of myself when I graduated with an honours degree, easily one of the best moments of my life. Anyways, congratulations and all the best for the future, you'll do great ❤️
As an EFL teacher (actually in two weeks I'll sit for my final exam) It's amazing to hear fellow young people being passionate about teaching ♡ Reflecting on your own path and being honest with yourself proves you'll be a great Mr Waldun!
🎉CONGRATS ❤️
If you have a general interest in understanding the world, then there’s a lot of areas of science which you might find it valuable to explore. If you’re interested in exploring a bit outside the literature sphere, then I highly recommend checking out the books “The Theoretical Minimum” by susskind, and “Behave” by sapolsky.
Heyy! Congrats 🎊🎊
This brainstorming you had in this video reminded me of me lol
I am so glad you graduated to guide me in my upcoming year😂 cause this is my last year in studying English literature and I know I'm going to continue higher education but well .. there's still some confusion about after graduation
And the thing about my first 3 years in the college about knowing nothing, literally nothing every time I discover sth new! Dude you're talking about me
Please, let us up to date !!
P.S. we're both INTJs even though it is not that big thing but I like it 😂 cheers
Hello Robin! Congratulations on graduating :) I’m a first year law student in Belgium and right now i’m experimenting with different study methods to find the one that suits me. Since you haven’t really talked about how/how long you study, i’m wondering how you got through your degree?
People forget that in Australia school year ends in n December. It is kinda messed up seeing Santa and snow when it’s summer where you are at
HEY WALDUN, HOPE YOU ARE DOING GOOD. WHEN I WENT TO UNIVERSITY FOR THE FIRST TIME, I BECAME VERY OVERWHELMED. THE CURIOUS MIND I HAD EARLIER IN THOSE YEARS WENT AWAY. AND I LOST ALL MOTIVATION TO READ, WRITE AND PURSUE OTHER INTELLECTUAL INQUIRIES. I WAS HOPING THAT MAYBE YOU COULD ADDRESS THIS VERY PROBLEM. THANKS!
Hey Muhammad! Thank you for this question, and to be honest with you, it was the same for me. University, to put it simply, is not really designed as an optimal environment for learning. It's more about learning the rules for how to play the game of academia. Some people are more suited for it than others, and it's perfectly natural to feel completely overwhelmed when you head into it because it's so different from your expectations.
It took me a little more than a year to get my bearings straight, and after learning the game of academia, it fuelled me to investigate what's wrong with it, and that motivated me to make these videos for you guys. University is not for everyone, but for certain people if you stick with your degree for a little while and overcome the initial discomfort and learn the basic academic skills (writing reports, test-taking, networking), the burning curiosity will return at some point. At that point, you can supplement your studies with extra personal reading and supercharge your academic journey.
Hope it helped
All the best
Robin
Teaching is the best. you have to really understand something to try to teach it. You give piano lessons...You know how that helps your own playing.
It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on 'letters to a young poet' by Rainer Maria Rilke and also on 'The Listening Society' by Hanzi Freinacht. I think you would enjoy them both.
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
― Albert Einstein
"The greater our knowledge increases,the more our ignorance unfolds"
fresh haircut, handsome ;)
Waldun how do i understand literature and books
Have you tried Stoicism? Great reading if you want improvement and discussion.
Please teach us how to design a PhD proposal when you get there.
Congratulations on finishing your Bachelor's degree. In the US, it takes a minimum of 4 years to complete an undergraduate (Bachelor's) degree. 😊
In Commonwealth countries, a Bachelor’s degree is generally 3 years. There are some degrees like Economics, Pharmacy and Engineering take 4 years; Medicine and Dentistry degrees take 5 years.
So, there is no masters degree? Where i come from it is 3 years (or longer) to get your bachelor, then you can choose to continue 2 more years to get the master. After that, if you get the oportunity, you can work towards your phd.
(But i feel like college is different to university, where i come from there are no colleges, so i dont know what is up with them.)
Socrates: the only thing i know for sure is i know nothing.
I don't know if you've talked about this but i wonder if you've ever considered, or why you hadn't chosen to study philosophy for your discipline? I can tell you truly have a passion and derive enjoyment out of it..
I definitely would’ve majored in philosophy, but my university is primarily focused on the analytical school of thought. So I diverged into literature and explored continental philosophy through critical theory. :)
@@RCWaldun Ah i see. I myself tend to be...allergic to Anglo-Saxon, analytical schools of thought and traditions...So i get it ;)
Which university is the best place to study literature in Melbourne?
Melbourne U (my university) ranks no. 1 in its arts disciplines in Australia. 👌🏻
Theres three stages of learning. 1. Thinking you know everything, 2. Realising you know nothing and 3. Realising no else really knows anything.
Have you read The Secret History by Donna Tartt?
The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing. - Socrates.
Gg
Congratulations!