Sheikh Irfan

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“Loneliness isn't the absence of people - it's the absence of being understood.” —Franz Kafka

How Am I Doing? Checklist for Doctoral Students at Various Stages of Their Program (1/3)

Happy International Tea Day

The real skill of a PhD is learning how to continue without clarity

Everyone else also sounded confident while figuring it out, too

15 sociologists who understood society before society understood itself: 1. Karl Marx : the system does not just exploit your labor, it shapes your desires too so that you never stop labouring 2. Max Weber : modern life while chasing systematic existence traps people inside invisible cages called rules, efficiency, and routine 3. Émile Durkheim : loneliness is not personal failure, it is what happens when society loses cohesion 4. Pierre Bourdieu : your “taste” in music, food, language, culture is an inherited class privilege disguised as choice 5. Michel Foucault : power works best when you think someone is watching you all the time and you start policing yourself without anyone forcing you 6. Erving Goffman : social life is like performing in a theatre, and people are performing different roles in front of different audiences sometimes in front of others as front stage and sometimes in private as back stage 7. Zygmunt Bauman : modern relationships feel fragile because society itself has become unstable and always changing shapes like a liquid 8. C. Wright Mills : your private struggles are often public issues created by larger systems.. so if you are finding it difficult to find a job, it might be less about you and possibly more about how it might be the economy at this moment.. same is with personal struggles with relationships, break ups, divorces, depression, infidelity, meaninglessness.. it’s less about you and more about how the society is at the moment 9. Herbert Marcuse : people can feel free while living inside systems designed to control them 10. Jean Baudrillard : modern society does not consume products, it consumes symbols, images, illusions 11. Antonio Gramsci : the strongest domination is when people voluntarily accept the ideas hurting them 12. George Herbert Mead : your “self” is not born inside you, it is built through interaction with others.. so your image of yourself in your head is how you think others think about you.. 13. Talcott Parsons : society survives because millions of people silently perform expected roles every day and agree with what rewards come with those roles 14. Harriet Martineau : you cannot understand a society unless you examine how it treats women and the powerless 15. Ulrich Beck : modern society creates risks so complex.. and society is categorised accordingly on how well one can ward off risk better than others.. and it’s reaching a point that even progress itself starts becoming dangerous Will share more in coming days and how sociology really makes your life better 😊

I don't know who needs to hear this, but all education should be free. We should want an educated society. It benefits all of us.

Generation gap🥴

@MurphyA52381 @blossomleafmwh My suggestion to all NEET aspirants, Freshers or Repeaters, Don't buy these online batches. Instead go to some good coaching Institute and do self study. Online coaching is chaotic mess and disturbs the mental equilibrium.

@blossomleafmwh Naya saal naya drama shruu !!

Ab kuch log NEET 2027 ke liye abhi se padhai start kar denge wo b 'peee dablwww' se.

@indukanwal @JKicps_jj @TCControl_DHSK Ma'am, if your words translate into action on ground, it wd be your historic contribution to the district. As on date, we all know that adolescents in nearby schools/ higher secondaries open buy cigarettes frm nearby shops in vicinity and smoke in clear violation of JJ Act.

Don’t take this as just an awareness campaign …as soon after punishments will follow if you disobey this public notice #COTPA @JKicps_jj @TCControl_DHSK

The academic pressure on me right now isn't even scary. What's scary is the way I'm ignoring it

Schools should significantly reduce the use of Chromebooks and return to paper and pencil as the primary tools for learning. There is a strong connection between writing by hand and how the brain processes, retains, and understands information.

@LuizaJarovsky @MushtaqBilalPhD

🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

It has been almost five months since the cabinet approved the reservation file. If the cabinet has approved the file, then where is it now? Is the government pursuing its implementation? How long will students continue to suffer? Is there any timeline? Students need answers

SP College campus Srinagar was once known for its greenery & natural landscape with massive trees 🌲 around. But in last 10 to 15 years it has been defaced - Sometimes Exhibitions are held , sometimes vehicles are parked in this ground and sometimes some other event. Tree Cover also reduced with Concrete structures around ? This needs a probe. Shall we have to seek NGTs intervention for this as well ? I appeal Education Minister @sakinaitoo Ji and Chairperson JK Pollution Control Committee Mr Vasu Yadav Ji to intervene @CM_JnK @diprjk @CPCB_OFFICIAL @Hr_Educationjk @ahsanpardesi @RuhullahMehdi @JkClimate

@indukanwal @OfficeOfLGJandK @DivComKash @diprjk @dicbandipora Making sure that no body smokes in the premises of Mini Secretariat can be a good beginning.

We are making efforts to the suggestion that students from almost all the schools gave me when I visited them for #Dostidiscussions under NMBA . Action is under COTPA. Also putting up a more stricter enforcement in place soon @OfficeOfLGJandK @DivComKash @diprjk @dicbandipora

It was great to see these plants after one year & the growth is amazing- We plant trees in lakhs every year but not even 50 % grow- Congratulations @wangnoo_manzoor sahib for planting trees in limited quantity with great results. Bilaliya Educational Institute Khimber Hazratbal was barren land 5 years back but now it is really a Green Campus- Mashallah @diprjk @OfficeOfLGJandK @CM_JnK @sakinaitoo @salmanalisagar @JkClimate @DrBilalnab10744 @FarooqKuthoo @TahirPeerzada_

@TATBi213 @hajmission If you are in the city of Prophet saw, please keep in dua

@hajmission Pathetic service , there no cleaning service in any building. Building 41 , 25 people are forced to share one bathroom. If you are incompetent to handle the task why don’t you privatise the whole thing.

Testimonials from Indian pilgrim staying at Building No. 169 in Makkah during #Haj2026 highlight their appreciation for the facilities and dedicated support provided on the ground. The Indian Haj Mission remains committed to working tirelessly to ensure the comfort, care and well-being of all our pilgrims throughout their sacred journey. @MEAIndia @IndianEmbRiyadh @MOMAIndia @haj_committee

@shub0414 That is why we should try to produce quality project reports so that eventually they can be published.

"Line Spacing 1.5” "Font size 12" "Font style Times New Roman" "Your literature review is too scanty" "Your citation is poor" “Include all of abbreviations” "Print 4 copies, 3 for the department and one for you" This is where it ends... like I said "the most useless thing in University Education, is Project."

“And the heart was made to be broken.” — Oscar Wilde