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Blurred: On Pharmaceuticals and Grad School (Foucault can’t help you, baby)

Hinda Mandell | November 10, 2009

By Faigel
I have to write this quickly. If I don’t, my Ambien will kick in, causing me to forfeit a significant portion of my hand-eye coordination (which, let’s be honest, was not all that impressive to begin with. Cut to me playing catch with my father in the backyard. Cut to the ball hitting me [...]

Fear of Flying: On Pharmaceuticals

Hinda Mandell | November 10, 2009

By Maidel
With graduate school comes hard-earned knowledge. Knowledge like learning to employ the words discourse, negotiation and hegemony as if they were a part of everyday speak like poop, toaster oven and spoon.
But there’s a different knowledge that oozes from the Ivory Tower. This is the knowledge that graduate school is a virtual medicine cabinet [...]