{"id":419,"date":"2022-07-16T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/?page_id=419"},"modified":"2022-07-16T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T15:15:40","slug":"alumni-hightisms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/alumni-hightisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni-Hightisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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  • “Be brilliant” (= be intellectually honest)<\/h4><\/li>

  • “NMP baby.”<\/h4><\/li>

  • “No likey.”<\/h4><\/li>

  • “Logic is better than sex.”<\/h4><\/li>

  • “Sometimes you just have to wave the magic hand.”<\/h4><\/li>

  • “Don’t be a squirrel.”<\/h4><\/li>

  • “Still here.”<\/h4><\/li>

  • “Reeeeeally?” [with corresponding hand gesture]<\/h4><\/li>

  • “Could be Gorgon the Great Goat God, my super favorite quad-G.”<\/h4><\/li>

  • “That is a bastard hard problem.”<\/h4><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Many thanks… I think… to the many students who contributed these.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    • “Lady philosophy is my girl.” Michael van Citters 9 Dec 2020 (Phil 304)<\/h4><\/li>

    • “Leibniz cookies, that’s not a porn thing, is it?” Michael van Citters 16 Jan 2020 (Phil 211)<\/h4><\/li>

    • “I peaked in Hight’s class.” Bjore Samard 24 April 2019 (while discussing Kantian metaphysics)<\/h4><\/li>

    • “It is OK to have a dad.” Garrett Ramsey 6 April 2018 (while discussing feminism in Wcul 102)<\/h4><\/li>

    • “We are all just holes in the air.” Shelby Hanna 21 Nov 2017 (Phil 305)<\/h4><\/li>

    • “I am crying because it is just so beautiful” Ryan Rivas 14 Feb 2013 (discussing Locke on identity)<\/h4><\/li>

    • “I think math is stupid.” Kyle Gilbert, physics and philosophy double-major, 23 Feb 2012<\/h4><\/li>

    • “My life, passionate and contradictory, the J.B. Potter story” said by Neil Smith 29 Mar 2011<\/h4><\/li>

    • “That is a Hightgasm!” Andrew Mauney 24 Mar 2011<\/h4><\/li>

    • “We are the teddy-bears of evil compared to Hight.” Avery Moncure 18 Jan 2011<\/h4><\/li>

    • “Yay! Immaterialism and Christianity–all in one day!” Brandon Wood 17 Mar 2009<\/h4><\/li>

    • Mo is still perceiving your room from the bushes.” Brandon Wood 17 Mar 2009<\/h4><\/li>

    • “I will take my [$500] ring to the pawn shop.” Taylor Neal, said in response to class discussion about the upshots of consequentialism<\/h4><\/li>

    • “You [Hight] average six awesome references [to science fiction characters] per class.” Josh Sorey 20 April 2007<\/h4><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Hightisms “Be brilliant” (= be intellectually honest) “NMP baby.” “No likey.” “Logic is better than sex.” “Sometimes you just have to wave the magic hand.” “Don’t be a squirrel.” “Still here.” “Reeeeeally?” [with corresponding hand gesture] “Could be Gorgon the Great Goat God, my super favorite quad-G.” “That is a bastard hard problem.” Many thanks… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/419\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}