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Attention Recent Graduates: It Is Now Your Future
Fig. 1 I know it’s only April, but I wanted to get a jump on the Commencement Addresses for various Colleges, Junior Colleges, Trade Schools, and other institutions of Higher Learning, while reminding...
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by Michael Seth Stewart https://medium.com/media/cd039df14362ab3a12014d62eca894f4/href Schedule is TENTATIVE! WEEK ONE: Watch “Twin Peaks,” pilot through episode sixteen, the one where you find out...
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Frats Nightmarish
Caitlin Flanagan’s monster fraternities story in the Atlantic turns out to be, eventually and at last, a story about… the insurance industry. Which actually makes it more fascinating, not less! This...
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Fraternities Treated Charitably
Neighbors made $51 million this weekend, which is about as much as Spider-Man 27, The Other Woman and Heaven Is For Real combined. It’s an easy movie in the way the best Apatow spin-offs and...
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Jill Abramson at Wake Forest: The Student Perspective
Yes. This. RT @ravisomaiya: I am always so impressed by this generation of 20-somethings. So confident and articulate. — Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) May 19, 2014 Jill Abramson gave a commencement...
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The Fall of the Humanities and the Tyranny of Recommendation Letters: A Novel...
by Jessica Gross and Merve Emre Dear Committee Members is the second novel from PEN/Hemingway award finalist and creative writing professor Julie Schumacher. Written entirely in the form of letters of...
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Every Email Is a Ghost Story
by Reyhan Harmanci You think you know someone. Then you find your college email account. Towards the end of a dinner party with four old friends, when the wine gave way to whiskey, we began...
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I Am the Foul Byproduct of the Mating of a Professor and a Student
by A “Student” of Love From time to time, The Awl offers its space to everyday citizens with something to say. In a Chronicle of Higher Education cover story by Laura Kipnis that is just now leaking...
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Campus Ambivalence
The Aimless College Romance Set In The Aimless Romance of College Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ is a satire of the campus novel Image: geneva_wirth Most people come to college uncertain what to expect. I...
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Roommate Recalled
He would walk into the room and everyone would kind of go: “Ugh, Spicer.” Awl pal Dave Bry was Sean Spicer’s freshman year roommate at Connecticut College (he wrote about it for The Guardian last...
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