Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...making thecut when The Advocate, a well-established campusliterary magazine, held its fall comp. I stoodoutside its closed green doors, scanning the listof successful candidates again and again, hoping Imight have missed my name. Finally, I decided Ineeded a second opinion, someone who would bewilling to read my comp essay and suggestimprovements. The first person who came to mindwas my English professor...
...went up to after class one day while she wasgathering her books. Hurriedly describing myunsuccessful attempt to comp the Advocate, I askedif she would read the essay in question. Shelooked at me for what seemed an eternity herexpression weary. I began to wonder if I'd donethe right thing in approaching her and started tomake an excuse to leave. But then she smiled andtold me to go her office hours, and I scuttledaway in relief...
...read the first page, she circled andunderlined line after line with a thick red pen,shaking her head in disapproval. My mechanics, shesaid, were a mess. This was perfectly true;semicolons were my downfall. After glancing at thesecond page, she handed the essay back to me, andinquired if I was taking Expository Writing. No, Iresponded, growing meeker by the minute, I'd beenexempt. My answer did not sit well with her, andshe expressed grave displeasure. Where exactly didI transfer form?, she inquired. the AmericanCollege of Singapore, I answered, Well, Idefinitely needed to take Expose, she said, and itwas imperative...
...knows? Maybe, in this alleged age of belatedness, of post-everything exciting, we'll reread that old essay of Emerson's ("The American Scholar"), the one which we were supposed to read four years ago before we first crossed this Yard's iron gates. And maybe we'll be persuaded by listening to that scholar who, when facing similarly recalcitrant questions and doubts, implores us, cheers us on, raises us higher, and guides us by showing us facts among appearances. Maybe, there might still be more to do. A whole lot more to do. We owe it to ourselves...
...least four graduate students (out of approximately 25) say they may leave the department early, saying they are wasting some $30,000 on a "disgusting" education and that they have not even been told how to prepare for an essay and oral exam, or whether their dissertation prospectus models should be 10 or 30 pages long...