{"id":66566,"date":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/north-kingstown-resident-to-graduate-from-uri-as-top-philosophy-student\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T00:00:00","slug":"north-kingstown-resident-to-graduate-from-uri-as-top-philosophy-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/north-kingstown-resident-to-graduate-from-uri-as-top-philosophy-student\/","title":{"rendered":"North Kingstown resident to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 as top philosophy student"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tStudent newspaper columnist hopes to become food writer<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 8, 2008 \u2013 North Kingstown resident Rebecca Long took an uncommon path to earning a college degree, choosing to major in philosophy rather than what some would consider a more practical discipline.

\n\tBut for her, it was the right choice. Long will graduate from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on May 18 and receive the President\u2019s Award for Student Excellence as the top philosophy student on campus.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWhen I enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站, I wasn\u2019t sure yet what I wanted to major in. I took an intro to philosophy class and found it to be really challenging, and it seemed like a good fit for me,\u201d said Long. \u201cRather than major in something that provides you with a skill set that allows you to do just one thing, philosophy teaches you a way to look at everything. I learned how to learn, so now I can approach almost any subject with confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tIt was helpful to Long that her philosophy classes were small, the professors were supportive, and she became close with her fellow philosophy majors.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI liked having a group of people who shared my intellectual interests,\u201d said Long, who made the Dean\u2019s List every semester at 溏心vlog免费B站 and earned the Grace B. Sherrer Award from the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program for her high grade point average.<\/p>\n


\n\tLong and her fellow philosophy students even created a club they called Philonymous, or Philosophers Anonymous.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe hang out together and talk about philosophy and talk about other topics in a philosophical way,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt\u2019s not a debate club and it\u2019s not political, but we cover all kinds of current events and scientific issues, and occasionally things get a little intense. The one understanding we have is that everyone approaches the discussion with an open mind and in a logical way.<\/p>\n


\n\tDuring her four years at 溏心vlog免费B站, Long developed an interest in writing about food and proposed to the editor of the student newspaper, The Good 5 Cent Cigar, that she write a periodic column on the topic. Called the Rhody Eat Beat, she wrote about local farmers markets, ethnic food markets and restaurants.<\/p>\n


\n\tLong even turned her food column into an honors project titled Foray into Food Writing: Philosophical Approaches to Contemporary Food Movements, in which she explored aquaculture, the raw milk movement and other issues.<\/p>\n


\n\tWith graduation fast approaching, Long is still deciding about her next step. She is considering enrolling in graduate school, perhaps in cultural studies, and looking for a job as a food writer. While she would love to write for glossy cooking magazines like Gourmet or for the food section of a newspaper, she thinks it\u2019s more likely that she will end up writing for food industry publications. Eventually, though, she would like to write books on the subject.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI like good food, so aesthetics plays a role in my interest in this field, but I\u2019m not really interested in being a restaurant reviewer,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m much more interested in writing about food-related issues, from economic issues like the cost of food to the environmental impacts of various foods.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u201cMy philosophy major has influenced the way I think about topics like these,\u201d Long concluded. \u201cWhen you\u2019re trained in logic, you can\u2019t help thinking about logical fallacies when you listen to the news. It\u2019s astounding how many fallacies there are in the news these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Student newspaper columnist hopes to become food writer KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 8, 2008 \u2013 North Kingstown resident Rebecca Long took an uncommon path to earning a college degree, choosing to major in philosophy rather than what some would consider a more practical discipline. But for her, it was the right choice. Long will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}