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kaijinscendre: (alec AAAAAYYYY)

[personal profile] kaijinscendre 2018-08-14 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I miss going to school as well. I wish there was a community college close enough for me to take a class every now and then. :(

(Anonymous) 2018-08-15 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
You could try classes online? Coursera is a good place to start if you just want the feel.
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[personal profile] kaijinscendre 2018-08-15 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't as fun when you don't have classmates to discuss things with.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Critical essays?

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
A lot of editions of "serious" literary classics will have some kind of critical apparatus attached to them. Essays about the interpretation and themes of the work, stuff like that.

So for instance, I used the Norton critical edition of The Tempest for a class when I was in school. It includes the text of the play, and also a bunch of excerpts from sources that Shakespeare drew on (from mythological stuff like Ovid to contemporary travel narratives and shipwreck stories), and a bunch of critical essays on different themes and interpretations.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's cool if you're taking lit classes!

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Or just generally if you want to read it!

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah I'm not generally fond of book dissections. I just like enjoying it as I interpret it.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Different strokes.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree but I also think that continuing to engage with stuff like that is good and valuable on its own terms, not just as a substitute for the experience of college. Go for it, OP! Keep going for it! Enjoy life-long learning and serious critical engagement!
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[personal profile] greghousesgf 2018-08-14 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't relate to this. I love to read and hated college. what I thought was going to be a great intellectual experience turned out to be just as fucked as high school except with meaner drunks and I couldn't even go home at the end of the day.
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(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Out of curiosity, what did you do with that English degree?
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[personal profile] nuri 2018-08-15 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Not OP, but I'm an insurance underwriter at a fortune 50.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-15 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Also not OP but I'm an English professor. I wanted to teach, though.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I loved college, but I don't really miss those days because I was so damn broke and tired all the time. I couldn't even appreciate the works I was reading because I was tired from working and just picked through them to have essay fodder. I have more free time now and I've reread some of the books I had to read for college. I definitely enjoy them more now and the critical essays are a joy to read.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-14 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I miss college as well. I've got a BA in Anthropology that I don't use at all (I'm a manager at a warehouse), but I'd love to go back for a Library Sciences degree. I just wish I had realized I didn't want to be an Anthropologist before I became buried in student loans, you know?

Adulting is the literal worst. I was also adulting when I was in school, but that was a different level of adulting & I wasn't in debt yet.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-15 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
actually, now that you make me think of it, maybe it's actually not the adulting but the crushing loans and economic insecurity that's the problem

(Anonymous) 2018-08-15 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
This time every year I have to fight not to buy school supplies.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-15 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
It's hard to resist those ten cent notebooks and shiny pencils and markers. I always end up buying the notebooks.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-15 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
As a writer, you can never have too many notebooks anyway.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-15 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
This is very true.

(Anonymous) 2018-08-15 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Me too, OP. I changed jobs recently and was able to take a trip to my old college and chat with the professors. I really miss that campus environment :(
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[personal profile] litalex 2018-08-15 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was an English major, too, and really miss college as well.
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