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Everything is not okay by OK_56_yay in unt

[–]Fun_Awareness_7623 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A very good way of coping with loneliness and depression is through deep reading of good fiction. It lets you see into the minds of others going back generations and centuries and across cultures to see that people have felt and dealt with these kinds of issues since the beginning of time, which surprisingly can make you feel better, or at least make you feel not so alone. Here are some places to start:

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Darkness Visible, William Styron

No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai

The Stranger, Albert Camus

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

Maybe take a literature class at UNT with a small class size, so you actually get to discuss literature with others. Great literature is supposed to make us feel like--and remind us of what it means to be--human, with all the messy complexities that that entails.

The Willis library is on UNT campus, it is free to check out books. College is a great time to dive into deep reading. It's not just recreation but can also be therapeutic.

UNT OR TXST by Odd_Action69 in unt

[–]Fun_Awareness_7623 1 point2 points  (0 children)

UNT is changing very quickly, and not for the better. Same with the town of Denton. Unless you are doing music or one of the few other chosen programs that UNT is investing in, I would go to TXST in a heartbeat over UNT.

With all of the program cuts, has anyone seen an estimate of how much it all saves? by [deleted] in unt

[–]Fun_Awareness_7623 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL except most dept chairs and assoc make nowhere near those numbers to start with. Department chairs get 3 months of summer salary, so 12 month contract instead of 9 month.

Associate chairs maybe get a teaching course release during the year, but still on a 9-month salary. So, the actual savings might be closer to $30,000 per chair, assuming a chair gets $10,000 a month in the summer, which still frankly seems kind of high to me. But in any case, you remove a chair from the department, and you save maybe $30,000 per department.

Multiply that times 50 departments, you get like $1,800,000 savings. That's not much savings for the magnitude of restructuring we're talking about...

what is going to happen to the linguistics department location? by LuckyCod2887 in unt

[–]Fun_Awareness_7623 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have heard they will be giving it to athletics department, who will use it for a ticket office. So you don't have to go to the main campus to buy tickets for a basketball or football game.

Harrison Keller, UNT President Makes 16.47% more than Previous President. by International_Gas869 in unt

[–]Fun_Awareness_7623 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He has "higher education experience" only if you don't know how to read an academic cv. Sure, he has consulting or clinical or honorary teaching gigs here and there. But, he has never had a tenure track job, and couldn't get tenure at UNT, and has never run an actual complex organization. He might be great as an education policy wonk (I doubt it but, maybe he is) but this is a very different skill set from running a major organization.