What is your academic fetish?

<p>Lit and politics. And I have to wait until next year to take both courses. -_-</p>

<p>debates/public speaking
i’m not really a math person but i love factoring
biology</p>

<p>US History, especially around the time when everyone was settling in the Great Plains and traveling on the Oregon Trail and mining and whatnot. how awesome is that stuff? too bad it only lasted like 30 years. :/</p>

<p>Biology…French revolution… Genocide… (is that messed up?)</p>

<p>Vectors…mmmmm</p>

<p>20th-century symbolist art</p>

<p>romanticist art. </p>

<p>Goya. Redon. Oh baby.</p>

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<li>Genetics (esp. genetic disfunctions)</li>
<li>Psychological disorders</li>
<li>Evolution/classification</li>
<li>20th century American authors</li>
<li>Utopia-related fiction i.e. Animal Farm, Brave New World</li>
<li>Tragedies (technological failure) i.e. LZ 129 Hindenburg, Chernobyl</li>
<li>Debates on morality/ethics</li>
<li>World War I and II</li>
<li>Immanuel Kant</li>
<li>Classics, mythology</li>
<li>Racial/sexual equality issues
My friends find it weird when they catch me looking up Impulse Control Disorders or reading a part in the text book on Chernobyl by choice or watching a lecture on Immanuel Kant’s ideas.</li>
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You too? ;)</p>

<p>Historical linguistics, tax policy, Tudor history.
Come at me.</p>

<p>Does wearing fake glasses while typing essays count? I actually can’t write without my fake glasses…</p>

<p>-US History, especially the American Revolution… been obsessed since 5th grade. :wink:
-Chemistry
-World War II: both the Holocaust and the US vs. Japan vs. China
-Gender and Minority studies
-Philosophies relating to government (e.g The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (Best. Book. Ever.).</p>

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<p>People v. Bratton and People v. Woodson. :P</p>

<p>Philosophy - especially alternative philosophies
Relativity and Quantum Theory - behavior of light, matter, nucleons, subatomic particles, antimatter
Astronomy/Astrophysics - intergalactic scale, black holes, white hole theory
Biology - origins of life, primordial soup theory, anatomy/physiology, neurology, genetics, diseases, medicine</p>

<p>Modern physics… somewhat.</p>

<p>And calculus (at times).</p>

<p>EDIT: @ Romulus. LOL. Eyes not bad enough for a real one? Good on ya mate.</p>

<p>TCH, your interests are interesting! To me, those are the the sorts of things, out of all things, to be interested in if one must pick carefully.</p>

<p>@Enfieldacademy: Thanks bud</p>

<p>Classical Physics.</p>

<p>TCH, what’s “alternative philosophies”?</p>