I’d never heard of Faulkner, but anything was better than Shakespeare.īut that explained why we also had to buy a Faulkner omnibus for the class. Black that he was obsessed with a writer named William Faulkner and spent half the semester teaching him. And to make matters even stranger, he was married to the Psych professor who was old enough to be his grand mother. My professor’s name was Steve Black, a skinny blond kid in a tweed coat who I swore couldn’t have been a year or two older than me. I picked up the book and paid the bookstore cashier with a pint of blood and the promised soul of my first unborn child. Since my plan was to major in English with concentration in creative writing, I considered English Composition 101 a necessary attribute to my college profession. Since almost all of these classes transfer to every degree, you haven’t wasted your first two years of college and still stand a chance of getting out of college in four years with a degree in something. I now know what they really mean is every degree requires these “pre-requisites” because most students have no idea what they want to do when they get into college and will change their degree two or three or ten times anyway. Though I had a choice, my high school counselor urged me to take these all four years because that was considered “college-prep,” which really means nothing in the grand scheme of things since you’ll take them again when you get to college anyway.īut college calls them “pre-requisites” for your degree.
I’d spend the first two years taking classes I’d already taken in high school: Science, Math, English, and History. In fact, that was the first lesson I learned about college. Did I really have to do it again my first year in college? I had already studied Shakespeare all four years in high school. I scrunched up my nose when I spotted Shakespeare’s name in the drama section under Comedy and Tragedy. The book was divided into different sections for short stories, poems, drama, and more. I thumbed through the glossary finding that each chapter was devoted to certain elements of literature: irony, theme, character, plot. The cover of my college freshman English 101 textbook
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