#liberalartsproblems

[syyyye]

Highest achievement as an English major: Become a tenured professor at a well-known university, publish a best-selling novel, and eventually win a Pulitzer Prize.

Lowest achievement: Sell out and write “articles” for BuzzFeed.

[syyyye]

Top 10 Poems that You MUST read before you Die:

“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe (I’m sure we’ve all read it at least once)

“The World is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth

“My life closed twice before it’s close” by Emily Dickinson

“The Buried Life” by Matthew Arnold

“Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich

“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats

“In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke

“Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas

“The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins (If you can figure out what it means, props to you)

This list is likely to change several times in my lifetime. Maybe I’ll post another one day if I ever Update it….For now, happy reading!

[syyyye]

Something that I never have to use again...

Some guy in the library just asked me if I had a protractor on me. Meanwhile, I have stack of English anthologies and books sitting next to me and a sticker that says I <3 English on my laptop. Power to him for asking a stranger for help, but would I look like the kind of guy who carries a protractor? Maybe he thought I like to draw angles in my spare time.

[lifeislikealemon]

My counter-argument is so good that I can't find a way to reply and defend my own thesis.

— My Musketeer ♥

[rejectedthesistitles]

Just typoed writing "deconstructionism" in a text message, and my phone autocorrected to "Derrida constructionism." #LiberalArtsProblems