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Posted 11 months ago

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How to tell you are no longer in your small liberal arts college and are now in the South

  • You overhear ‘My dad and I did hundreds of Civil War re-enactments’
  • You see a sign that says ‘LIBERAL WRITERS NEEDED for the only liberal paper on campus’
  • You spot an Obama/Joker/Socialism poster on the way to campus

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Posted 11 months ago

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It’s no PRESTO, but it feels like entering The Matrix. Zoom

It’s no PRESTO, but it feels like entering The Matrix.

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Posted 11 months ago

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Gems from the US culture section of orientation

  • Acting friendly is a US custom.
  • People in the US have ‘sensitive’ noses that do not like the smell of the human body.
  • American students are very sensitive about difference.
  • You might notice that people in the US walk quickly, talk quickly, and pay little attention to manners and politeness.
  • This information does not apply to all people from the US.

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Posted 1 year ago

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Finding and Furnishing an Apartment

By the time you receive this Guide, every good apartment in Nashville will be taken. You will be forced to live in a box by the Greyhound Bus Station on 8th Avenue. Fortunately, the winters here are relatively mild.

Hahaha, very funny (I reserve my real laughter until I actually have an apartment).

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Posted 1 year ago

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Classics grad school adventures

Now that I’ve finally decided what schools to apply to, after much hemming and hawing and gwwarrring and kicking and screaming and &*%$ing, I’m taking the GRE on Friday, and getting my application put together in the next few weeks.

  • Berkeley
  • Columbia
  • U Chicago
  • UCLA
  • Vanderbilt

There, I’ve committed it to writing, in a place where people can see it. Now I actually have to get my shit together.

Future, here I come!

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