Andddddddddddd it's classes again. And I have much work to do. Two essays and a quiz for Tuesday and Wednesday. And three more essays due in the next week. So now I can finally procrastinate for real again! This is the Cornell I'm used to.
You know what I love about college? Freedom. My assignment for my linguistics class is to write an essay about words. That's the prompt. I could write about swear and taboo words, euphemisms, puns, onomatopoeia, animal noises, words that make or break a career (e.g. "boooooyaaaa" or "macaca"), or anything I want. I'm choosing to write about the word etymologies of J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien, and how the words work with the worlds. Why? Because I can.
College offers you
The freedom to do what you
Want, however weird.
Really, I have so much freedom, and I love it. Not only do I have choice on this paper, but on most of those that I write. For my decadent poetry class I can write whatever I want as long as it compares two authors (need to figure this one out still), and I can write whatever relevant topic I want for American Studies. This is usually how things work. You're usually not bound to any prompt, and can be yourself. Unless you're not in humanities. Then it sucks to write essays. No offense.
Monday, February 22, 2010
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