Because this is my last semester at USC Upstate, I'm taking Senior Seminar: essentially, a 15-week-long writing workshop for a capstone paper. Knowing that I was going to take this course, I brainstormed all year for topic ideas. Writing 25 pages is easy for me, but a good, meaty thesis can be difficult to come by. … Continue reading Scrap: Connecting the Dots
This week's Wordy Wednesday continues the running theme---philosophy, religion, and sevens---with a list of seven words on the subject of prophecy.
"It's not what you read: it's what you can get away with not reading. They don't expect you to read every single word. They're purposefully overloading you so you can develop the skill of selective reading and figuring out what you need to know." Tim Lemire, I'm an English Major---Now What?
As summer ends and we all gear up to face another season, another semester, another year, think of autumn as an opportunity for a new start, and take these very fitting words and do something with them.
A short and sweet review of Julia Otsuka's short and sweet first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine.