oh lord. Here's a college experience I would actually consider. #1580187, #1585367

In the spirit of celebrating our great Western Civ (#1591565), it might very well be worth a year of my life to go live in Greece, learn to read Ancient Greek, and then chill ("chill") in beautiful Savannah, GA, delving into a core theme of the ancient world and the ideas that transfused the West.
(Some of the interviewed students say they haven't worked that hard in their entire lives, so probs not chill)

If bitcoin moons... I won't say you'll know, but there will be signs.

Lots of doomerism around here (fueled by a very boomed-doomed real world), but this incredible optimism and admiration and

After Rubio gave his chilling speech in Athens, the founding president of this super interesting college had some interesting things to say:

Since the elites of America are the most afflicted by this anti-Western blight, Mr. Blackwood believes that 'the regeneration of a flourishing and free culture has to happen in a bottom-up way, individual by individual, at institutions that dedicate themselves to the pursuit and cultivation of knowledge and freedom.'
Messrs. Blackwood and Conlon—and their handful of colleagues at Ralston —are on a mission to revive Western culture. They believe it has to happen through Greek. At the very least, says Mr. Conlon, “studying Greek puts us on firmer ground in understanding our own origins.”

24 students a year for its one-year masters, mostly free(?) and free of federal funding. Ship the kids (well, "kids") off to Greece for a term, followed by three terms in Savannah.

Mr. Blackwood says Ralston was established to counter “the failure, the corruption and the crisis of our elites.” He likens his college, among the smallest in America, to “the Little Engine That Could, carrying the freight of our neglected culture in its few little cars.”

"One of the symptoms of our “civilizational crisis,” Mr. Blackwood says, “is a disregard for the fundamental conditions of our civilization"

Fuck. YEAH:

Things that would have been obvious to, say, Jefferson or Hamilton seem unimportant to our own elites.” That’s why Mr. Rubio’s paean to Western civ was so welcome. It was a rejection of decades of “institutional insanity, and the wholesale neglect in American schools and colleges of our civilizational foundations,” Mr. Blackwood says.

The students, once shipped off to the old world,

...they spend a month in Samos, an island in the eastern Aegean, where Pythagoras dwelt in a cave. Then they move to Dimitsana, a storied little town in Arcadia in the Peloponnese, where I observe them in their studies.
Six weeks into learning the language of Plato, they banter with each other in ancient Greek and declaim the words of Homer and Pausanias, a second-century geographer, in a local bar, where they also place their orders in Greek.

The most essential ingredient is a stance of gratitude and love toward the tradition.” One of the reasons Ralston starts its students off in Greece—where they visit Olympia, the theater at Epidaurus, Mycenae and the Lousios Gorge, dotted with Orthodox monasteries—is because Mr. Conlon wants “to wow them with beauty so as to short-circuit their brain.”

Fr their website

Tuition for the program is $75,000, which will cover accommodation and most meals in Term I in Greece. We estimate that, in Savannah, room and board for a single student will cost approximately $16,000. All admitted students are eligible for full and partial scholarships.

oh well, no Den... for now.:

Enrollment is currently limited to students who are citizens of the United States or who are lawful permanent residents. We hope to admit international students to the program in subsequent years.

archive not playing dice.
piled it together from rando places... IG, SMRY, some extract from a gift link