i turned in my senior project today. and the feeling of relief I felt was nice, for a minute. but then i had a new thought: what if i don't get at least a C? What if i have to do it again
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What was your senior project on? I got to write about Henry James and the Aspern Papers and how unreliable first person narrators are. It was fun to write (three days and nights without sleep and then some) and I thought it was my best piece of writing yet. Unfortunately, the English department at Luther didn't think so. I got a C+ on it, which is pretty good for those Luther people. I, on the other hand, thought it was worth a lot more than a C+.
mine was in three parts: the first was about me as a reader, and i analyzed and sorted the texts that have shaped me and how i approach them; the second was about me as a writer, and i compiled papers i'd written throughout my college career and discussed my writing in all aspects; the third was a section of my own choosing. i decided to work with some of my creative writing, as that is where i invision myself progressing. i took all the live journal entries i had written up to the date i began the project, selected and slightly edited them so that i could use them as an exercise in character development. i speculated on the type of character that was created in the entries, and wondered if it was valid, or worthwhile, etc. i ruminated on the creation of character out of something that HAD been a personal expression, and wondered if this was a true character, or merely an incomplete picture of an author. i sort of left the whole 'answer' to all that wide open, as i don't think there is a decisive answer. but that's what i wondered
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