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elaine.17.columbia '21.formerappblrlurker.gapyearbabe

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Hey Everyone! When I was younger, I used to read a ton. As a direct result of that, my writing and reading were on point. Recently, however, I haven’t been reading as much, and as a result, my writing isn’t as good as I want it to be (albeit, still pretty good). I’ve decided to read all the books on this list over the next 1 and a half years to get back into reading and to improve my writing. Enjoy! :)

1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

4. Animal Farm by George Orwell

5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

6. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

8. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

9. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

10. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

12. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

13. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

14. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

15. The Ecological Rift by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Richard York

16. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein

17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

18. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

19. The Odyssey by Homer

20. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

22. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

23. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

24. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 

25. The Stranger by Albert Camus

26. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

27. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

28. Beowulf by Unknown

29. The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra, Luigi Luisi

30. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

31. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

32. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

33. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

34. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 

35. Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

36. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

37. The Awakening by Kate Chopin

38. Candide by Voltaire

39. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

40. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

41. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

42. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

43. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

44. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

45. The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath

46. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

47. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

48. Antigone by Sophocles

49. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) by Chinua Achebe

50. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

51. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) by James Fenimore Cooper

52. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

53. Beloved by Toni Morrison

54. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

55. Selected Tales by Edgar Allen Poe

56. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

57. 1984 by George Orwell

58. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 

59. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

60. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

61. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

62. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O’Connor

63. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

64. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

65. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

66. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

67. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

68. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

69. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

70. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

71. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

72. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

73. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

74. The Iliad by Homer

75. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1) by Dante Alighieri

76. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

77. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 

78. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

79. Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill

80. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

81. Cyrano de Bergac by Edmond Rostand

82. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

83. The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot

84. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

85. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

86. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

87. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

88. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

89. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

90. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

91. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

92. Call it Sleep by Henry Roth

93. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

94. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

95. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow

96. A Death in the Family by James Agee

97. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

98. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

99. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

100. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carther

101. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

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I got an A- in my college class when I really should have gotten an A and I don’t know if I should email my instructor to change it.

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Is it worth stressing about a 92 I don't know? I know I got a 94 in the class but I'm scared to email the professor.

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Okay I think the way it turns out I got a B+ in Lit and a B in Calc which I'm fine with. I've never had two B's in a semester before but I'll live.

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I still got an A I'm ???

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honestly i do have a crippling amount of anxiety that i should see a doctor for and i lowkey fit all the symptoms of a girl manifesting ADD i really need to find a therapist

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ugh once i release my terrible essay into the world I'm going to watch all of Scrotal Recall and read Emma to make myself feel okay

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okay seems like the crush hooked up with the girl who hates me on my last day in town ofc

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update: maybe not?

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okay seems like the crush hooked up with the girl who hates me on my last day in town ofc

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so this is it, my last day really in my hometown and i never got up the courage to kiss that boy that night and i never got up the courage to tell the friend that i do care and i still need to finish my paper.

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I have a plan for the first ten months of my gap year but not May to August I don’t know if I saved up enough money from working constantly in high school to cover my expenses taking a work study into account next year that I could take a low paying internship that summer. Would love to intern in London and I could probably stay with friends in DC as long as I nannied which I’m fine with.

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Muffy, what's a good summer reading list for a girl who's going to start college in the fall??

Keep reading

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laine, you need to like completely chill on your obsession with small lac you hated when you visited xx

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summer reading list for a girl who just graduated from college?

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I'm back and I graduated (have to write a final paper this week but other than that I'm done).

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i'm writing this instead of calling a, who is not my boyfriend and skits in and out of being my friend at all. i could call him and i could explain my troubles and he said i could, earlier today, but there's something about me that's always afraid he won't pick up the phone.

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My Dream Schools, Chronologically

The State School-5-11 I grew up in a place where I didn’t really think of any other options, where a lot of kids still don’t. I was going to my state school and hang out at the same places I always did. Georgetown-13 This was the first school I toured and I was convinced it was perfect. I still like it a lot even though Georgetown never liked me back. Brown-14 I was too old to be 14 and I knew exactly where sensitive, neurotic girls went and I was going to go there too. Dartmouth-15 From reading Mindy Kaling’s book. I visited it and it seemed greener than any place I’d ever been. Yale-16 Yale had always darted in and out of my mind as the place I wanted to go. It was beautiful and everyone seemed just happy. Williams-16 Williams on paper, seemed perfect. I remember reading over the admissions material they sent over and pinching myself. Everything about it was perfect until I got to campus and saw the how small the town was and how all the people seemed like the sporty, popular people I had hated in high school. Princeton-17 I loved Princeton. I loved Princeton so much (the emphasis on independent study, the creative writing program, the certificates, the bridge year, the campus, the internship summer programs). I fussed over my essay so much. When I was deferred it felt like the heaviest thing in the world.

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Wait no nvm I was recycling homework and when I was 12 I wanted to go to Stanford because of their synchronized swimming team.