i am NOT good at academic tone at this point so can't help there. i've tried before on other people's papers and when i suggest saying "Johann wanted Heidi to stay in town" they say no, and re-write it "Following his internal compass of questionable moral ethics, Johann is compelled to beg Heidi to remain in the hamlet..." and argue that academics ( Read more... )

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i've become that person who shouts "get the fuck away from grad school? what are you, stupid?" to the nice barista starting his MA in the fall. whoops. . . 

think about honking
if you <3 conceptual art

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So this is what life is like as an academic. Huh.

As Leslie Fiedler pointed out a generation again, academic types generally have a huge tolerance for boredom and an equally enormous fear of risk.

meet my significant otter.

love me til i'm me again.

cause sometimes that mountain you've been climbing
is just a grain of sand
and what you've been up there searching for forever 
is in your hands
when you figure out love is all that matters after all
it sure makes everything else seem so small