Thoughts before starting my PPE degree
This was written in September 2020 It is three days before I start my degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, a degree pioneered by Oxford University in 1920 to replace the classics and instead offer a more modern and up to date version to provide the knowledge and skills for future civil servants to effectively govern. In the a year and a half that I've thought about pursuing this degree and in the eight months since being accepted I've had a lot of time to reflect upon the nature, the purpose, the scope, the benefits, the limitations about pursuing such a degree as it really is an outlier in terms of what the traditional university degree is supposed to accomplish. I personally am against specialization, the idea of 'specializing' in a particular subject makes me shiver with dread, I don't think there is anything more unpleasant to my intellectual drive than the idea of tunnel visioning in a narrow and isolated subject. To me it seems that a true un...