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Isabel Gardett: An English Major Doesn’t Have to Be a Teacher
Isabel (Marie) Gardett graduated from the College of Charleston not only with a BA but also a MA in English. She later received a Ph.D. in English, specializing in rhetoric and writing, from the University of Utah. Throughout and after her path of higher education, she experienced many career shifts, from instructing college courses, writing […]
Tending My Flower
While exploring the flower in my mind, I honestly did not discover anything too new. I did, however, gain a greater understanding of my interests. Each petal within this exercise from Richard N. Bolles What Color Is Your Parachute? explores a different important aspect of one’s career and life. The seven petals cover my favorite […]
Humanity: Learning How to Learn
Throughout my undergraduate career, I’ve struggled to find what it means to be me. When I came into college, as noted in a previous piece of mine, I wanted to study science. I wanted a safe job with a safe income so I could live a safe life. But I quickly realized that would not […]
Exploring the Ambiguous
Throughout my college experience, I have faced many challenges within the classroom which resonate with my personal and professional life. As noted in an earlier blog post, I came to college wishing to pursue a pre-med track that would lead me toward a clean white doctor’s coat of my own. However, I quickly realized my […]
Narrative Unbound: Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated with apocalyptic fictions. I was obsessed with The Walking Dead for many years, even reading most of the comic books; I found excitement in the approaching doom that was prophesized to wreak havoc at the end of the year 2012; I’ve only gained familiarity with a […]
Babies, Puppies, and Babbling
In Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights, he includes a short essay on the joy of seeing a baby. While on a plane, he adorably describes how he spotted a toddler that “toddled” past him dressed in a pink onesie and a panda hood. Throughout the rest of this piece, which covers only two pages in […]
So, Why Am I Studying Literature?
Throughout my undergraduate career, I have wracked my brain with questions like: What do I find important? What do I like? What do I want to do with my life? Since my days in high school, I always figured I would become a doctor, a medical doctor, of some sort. I liked science and I […]