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Tag Archives: English
An Artist’s Dilemma
“I majored in writing at college,” I say, looking up to the sky and hoping they don’t shove me into the deep, dark, this-guy’s-an-idiot-who-majored-in-something-completely-unpractical hole. “Oh,” he/she says, while shoving me down the this-guy’s-an-idiot-who-majored-in-something-completely-unpractical hole. “Well… what do you write?” … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, author, college, dilemma, English, liberal arts, major, writing
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So You’ve Graduated College…
To approach the fall without returning to tests, assessments, projects, and other thinly disguised foolishness is about as odd as eating French fries without ketchup, a panda without its bamboo, Homer Simpson without a donut. See graduation is a fantastic … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, books, burn, college, English, fall, graduate, Graduation, Jeopardy, major, philosophy, school, writing
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Graduating
As a graduating senior, the time draws near when I will no longer have to worry about Romanticism or Jacques Derrida and his inane ramblings on god-knows-what or remembering the rule of when to use who or whom (honestly, … Continue reading
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Tagged classroom, college, Dark Knight, English, forget, Graduation, major, professor, senior, thinking
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English Major
Let’s say you’re going to a fashionable, swank cocktail party where they serve you champagne in tall glasses and the servants whisk around in impeccable suits with trays of fish heads or whatever they have on those things. I’ve never … Continue reading
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Tagged calculus, career, cocktail, Conservative, Democrat, engineering, English, Fight Club, funny, jokes, kids, Liberal, major, party, Republican, sarcastic, servant, Taekwondo, teacher, work, Youtube
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Postmodernism
In one of my English classes, we are studying that bundle of bewilderment known as postmodernism. I’m not going to go into what postmodernism actually is because a) postmodernists don’t actually agree on what postmodernism is (nor do postmodernists like … Continue reading
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Tagged bakhtin, brain death, college, death, degree, English, farce, funny, hate, heaven, postmodernism, rationality
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What now?
The final step, the senior year. The questions are growing more insistent and the answers can no longer be pushed lightly to the side. So what are you going to do with that? What are your plans? As if we … Continue reading
Diaries of a Mad Airplane Traveler
As I writing these words, I’m sitting in a small aluminum tube about 38,000 feet above the frigid waters of the Atlantic—where I’m sure that if we crash I will not only die (despite what the dinky pamphlet says about … Continue reading
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Musings On A Somewhat Intriguing Life 