For our weekly writing assignments in FYS
At the beginning of this semester, I was extremely worried about how my writing skills would adapt to college. I didn’t think that the transition would be easy and in a way, both of those sentiments are true and yet false. When I was writing my first essay I knew it had to be greater […]
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This week I met with Keanna and got feedback on my essay. Going into the meeting I felt confident about my work, even though I had written it in a short period of time I still felt that it was of the same quality as my other drafts that I’ve gone over with her. During […]
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This weekend I did something I never thought I would do, write an essay in two days. Of course, it wasn’t the same as cram writing an essay in a short amount of time because the deadline is quickly approaching. Our final essay isn’t due for weeks but I decided to write it in full […]
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This week I was at a bit of a stalemate with my final essay. I had a broad topic picked out, that no one writes letters because they’re lazy even though we love seeing the physical reminder that someone cares about us but my research for it was lackluster. Every search option I tried always […]
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This week was interesting for me. Though I’m entirely aware that writing a cover letter is an important step in finding a job, a part of me doesn’t want to write one because I’m scared of what it might mean. The future is unknown and the vagueness of it scares me. I like knowing what […]
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When I was in elementary school I read a book called “The Time-Traveling Fashionista On Board the Titanic (The Time-Traveling Fashionista” and though I didn’t know it at the time, that book was the start of my Titanic interest. Around that same time, I walked into my future middle school library, and right there, front […]
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Something I found intriguing in my first letter, Your First Line, was that it encouraged you to embrace complexity. Colum McCann likens writing your first line to, “being told to walk a tightrope. Go ahead, then, walk the tightrope! Relax yourself into the tension of the wire.” Often in writing it’s very easy to lose […]
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This week, one of the letters I read was Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln and I honestly loved it so much. What struck me was how she doesn’t fully realize the depths of what it means to not have the ability to vote, she considers herself to have so much power. A belief she’s able […]
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? Is just a circle of causes and effects. It all starts with Lee’s anger and frustration which can stem from her dissatisfaction with her career. She had a book on the New York Times bestseller list and yet no one knows who she is; her books are barely selling and […]
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Surprisingly, throughout The Gift, Lily May Bell (who was renamed Mabel) was discussed in every single letter despite not actually writing any of her own letters. The only information the reader of her is from the letters of her adopted and biological parents and the afterword. She has such a strong presence in the work […]
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