Black Winter Day, you faggot, get in here
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Black Winter Day
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shitty. i have my first final exam tomorrow at 8 am. i am splitting my time between reading/studying and aimlessly surfing the net. right now i'm trying to find a decent summary of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". word.
steve smyth given you a call yet?
steve smyth given you a call yet?
Nate The Great
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Haha! I had to read Gulliver's Travels in college as well. I was an English/Creative Writing major. Isn't that what you are majoring in BWD?
I bet I even have a copy of some sort of paper I did on it . . .
I bet I even have a copy of some sort of paper I did on it . . .
Black Winter Day
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yeah, i'm an english major. i want to be a writer. whether i will be creative will have to be seen later.
yeah, we were assigned swift, but i didn't really feel like reading it. i never let schoolwork interfere with my college education.
yeah, we were assigned swift, but i didn't really feel like reading it. i never let schoolwork interfere with my college education.
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You are well learned young master...Black Winter Day said:yeah, we were assigned swift, but i didn't really feel like reading it. i never let schoolwork interfere with my college education.
Nate The Great
What would Nathan do?
BWD, my only advise to you, if you want to write creatively, would be to actually read the stuff you are assigned. I skipped over some of the stuff, just as you did, but I later went back and read most of it, and I couldn't figure out why I would have skipped it. Most importantly, make sure to read all the Shakespeare stuff you can. I had to take a year of Shakespeare courses. I was gald I did, otherwise I wouldn't have read it. Understanding the older more classic stuff is just like listening to all the older metal stuff. It will help you understand the whys and hows of today's literature.
I'm mostly like you, though. I like all the whacky modern literature.
I'm mostly like you, though. I like all the whacky modern literature.
Black Winter Day
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yeah, i dig shakespeare (in a gay way, in fact... i even was nerdy and voluntarily went to a perfomance of king lear a few months back) and have read a ton of the classics, but asking someone to read an entire novel like that in a week when there are so many other assignments from different classes is asking a bit much. but yeah, i'm a sucker for experimental stuff (my favorite writers include henry miller, jack kerouac, kurt vonnegut, william s. burroughs, david foster wallace, etc.). i'm also pretty childish... i want to read what i want, not what some teacher tells me to!!!!! i wish i still had my english teacher from last year... she ruled.
Nate The Great
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Russell
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Black Winter Day
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nate: no, not directly. i have to get some of the other stuff out of the way first (english 20 is the only course for my major i've taken so far). as far as writing in itself... i have perhaps 1,000 pages of written material at home (from the past 6 years or so). all different stuff mostly, some of it good, some of it not so good. i plan on writing something big this summer and i've got some good ideas. i definitely need to write more and more if i'm ever going to be serious about the art. what made you shift majors, by the way?
russell: thanks. i don't really know what a shit module is, but best of luck with that.
russell: thanks. i don't really know what a shit module is, but best of luck with that.
Russell
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Black Winter Day said:russell: thanks. i don't really know what a shit module is, but best of luck with that.
Electricity and Magnetism. It's shit because I don't get what's going on most of the time as our lecturer insists on doing everything with line integrals and complex numbers. Of all the people I've spoken to so far that are sitting the exans it looks like we're all gonna fail!
And that's everyone in the class!
Black Winter Day
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hey, maybe you will get a curve! then, if you all fail, it won't be disastrous at all (unless you fail miserably). i like tests like that. it evens the playing field.
Nate The Great
What would Nathan do?
BWD . . . I started out in computer science, changed to undecided, then to geology, then to kinesiology, then to English/Creative Writing.
I am a banker (at the moment) because I needed a job where my wife was going to graduate school. I graduated with an English degree. I was going to go to law school, but things changed . . .
Keep writing whatever you do. You will absolutely LOVE the creative writing classes. You will be around people that have different writing/reading/artistic tastes than you, but they will all have the same "way of thinking" (at least in the upper lever courses). Start the creative writing courses as soon as possible.
I actually took a creative writing course when I was an undecided major . . . just because I like writing. It ended up being one of the only A's I got that semester. The teacher also encouraged me to take another creative writing course. Eventually I just changed to that major.
Even though I don't have a job in writing, it is someting I still enjoy doing immensely. Just like writing/playing music.
I am a banker (at the moment) because I needed a job where my wife was going to graduate school. I graduated with an English degree. I was going to go to law school, but things changed . . .
Keep writing whatever you do. You will absolutely LOVE the creative writing classes. You will be around people that have different writing/reading/artistic tastes than you, but they will all have the same "way of thinking" (at least in the upper lever courses). Start the creative writing courses as soon as possible.
I actually took a creative writing course when I was an undecided major . . . just because I like writing. It ended up being one of the only A's I got that semester. The teacher also encouraged me to take another creative writing course. Eventually I just changed to that major.
Even though I don't have a job in writing, it is someting I still enjoy doing immensely. Just like writing/playing music.
Russell
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Russell
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Black Winter Day
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on our exam we are allowed one 3" x 5" card to write information. goddamn i've never written so small in my life! i'm almost finished with the card, need to put some more info on it to fill it up... if i do well on the test i'm going to put the mofo in a frame and hang it on my wall.
Black Winter Day
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sweetness. i know i probably won't be able to write full time (something about money?!?Nate The Great said:
), but hopefully i can find a job with decent pay and freedom to write on the side. is there such a thing as a job like that?!?
