Posted on: 10 Aug 2023
College is demanding. Okay, that’s a banal opening, but still. Obviously, there’s coursework to contend with. But there’s also the stress that comes along with roommates, dorm life, and a new social setting. Then there’s financial stress. Almost half of full-time undergrads—and a massive 81% of part-time undergraduates—hold a job. And let’s not forget that […]
Posted on: 20 Jul 2023
Writing successful argumentative or persuasive essays is a sort of academic rite of passage: every student, at some point in their academic career, will have to do it. And not without reason—writing a good argumentative essay requires the ability to organize one’s thoughts, reason logically, and present evidence in support of claims. They even require […]
Posted on: 15 Jul 2023
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas published “Do not go gentle into that good night” in 1951, just two years before he died from alcohol-related health complications in 1953. Generally, when it comes to any kind of literary analysis, I’m a big fan of Roland Barthes’ “death of the author” thesis: basically, the idea that using an […]
Posted on: 05 Jul 2023
I studied German as an undergrad. I memorized the cases and disorienting verb placement, and after four semesters, I felt pretty slick. But then I went to Germany and didn’t understand a thing. My theory is that my cluelessness had something to do with the prevalence of idioms in German. Before we look at common […]