Today, we read Lacan's "The Mirror Stage", and I realized that I've learned a lot in college, things that I'll want to remember. Like Atwood's invariant organizing principle, a life theme. Like McClure's entire, riveting view on the meaning of literature and how to look at it ( Read more... )

I feel more flustered this year, because most of my courses have become more abstract, and I find myself almost missing the rigor and concise nature of, for example, organic chem. Whatever artsy side of me there is, it definitely needs a counter balance ( Read more... )

I've been reading "You Are Not a Stranger Here" by Haslett, and it makes me feel awkward. It's a collection of short stories, and I have rather high expectations of short stories. I expect them to give me a feeling of epiphany mingled with terror or shock. I go through this collection with that expectation, and somehow it fills them by letting me ( Read more... )