Reflections of a Soon to be GRADUATE

Reflecting on the English major…DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A GANGSTER…I learned many valuable lessons, but because I am so worn out on writing papers, I am going to list the awesomeness and the not-so-awesomeness instead of writing a lovely lengthy dissertation that I know all of you want to read... 

Awesomeness:

1)    Doug’s classes

2)    Michelle’s Digital Rhetorics and Multimodal Writing—my hands down favorite class within the major

3)    Rhetoric and Composition—because now I semi-know what rhetoric is

4)    The fact that a student can take up to 3 creative writing classes

5)    The required readings are usually pretty great (with the exception of Rick Bass’ All the Land to Hold Us…shudder*)

6)    Muffins and mimosas

7)    Mark Schlenz

8)    Kittens

9)    The availability of the English Department faculty

10) The fact that my spell check doesn’t think “awesomeness” is spelled incorrectly…

Not-so-awesomeness

1)    Poetry classes

2)    That one time I had to take a statistics class because I thought that becoming a business double major was a good idea. It wasn’t.

3)    Need a creative writing option

4)    The fact that I had to sell my spleen to get signed up for any of the creative writing classes (except for Bean’s creative poetry class…)

5)    I would have like more breadth of classes within the major. I felt like there weren’t very many required courses, so I had to waste away in music and religion classes to fill empty credits—DOWN WITH BUDDHIST TRADITIONS 203!

Suggested Awesomeness

1)    A class on how to research, specifically

2)    Naps

3)    More kittens

4)    A creative writing option, or more creative writing avenues within the major

~Grace