Erasmus know the truth:"Your library is your paradise"

[cloud_wolf]

I had my uni introduction week (and it sure was a full program) and I finally fully realised why people dislike fratboys so much.

And I've heard we're going to dissect corpses in our third week (So round up dem hepatitis shots!). People are pretty nervous but this surely isn't going to be as bad as the things we saw in our plastic and reconstructive surgery lecture (I can't even talk about this. The things that happen to people... I just want to be a doctor already).

Having said that, I'm off to Belgium for a week with my parents and my bro. And then... my more-than-a-decade-long studies begins D:

And before I leave you, some quotes by the guy my uni is named after, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus:

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

Moar. I should really read the Praise of Folly.

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[misstopia.livejournal.com]

University! Whee! Excited?

My friend who graduated from med school about a year ago, she used to show us her lecture material sometime, the only thing worse than plastic was dermatology X|

I like:
"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie."
"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."
"Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders."
"I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people."
"If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen."
"If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict."
"Man is to man either a god or a wolf."
"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's."
"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human."
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." (Heh, I feel this is so ASOIAF appropriate)
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

Hahah, sorry so many. I really like the last one you chose too.

[cloud-wolf.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late answer, but yes, I'm really excited!

Erasmus has really nice quotes, I really had a hard time choosing. XD