Reading something like this just hurts, because I use the skills I learned during those 8 weeks every day at work. Imagine cheating yourself out of valuable life skills like this.

For one of my tutorials at Oxford, the don offered me 3 questions each week to answer and a list of about 10,000 pages of books/papers that were suggested as useful for answering one or more of the 3 questions. Part of the weekly work was to weed out the irrelevant papers/books and get the answer.

It is almost like requiring Humanities classes as part of all degrees would produce better humans. Maybe even break down some of the arguments of the alt right at the source by encouraging critical or empathetic thinking.

C'mon. It's Indiana. They'll be 90, having taken the same toll for their whole lives and STILL be confused by tolls.

No, Charlie Brown, I expect you to die!

Somewhere, Chandler is safe in knowing she's not a threat to dethrone his prose. Pretty sure the snippet is fake. On the off chance it is not, maybe she can take some writing workshops with her advance...

Congrats! Went through one term of fifth week blues, can't imagine a whole DPhil at that level. Good on you, Doctor. (Also, to hell with the haters who peaked in middle school gym class.)

Well, crap. Metallica's self-titled “Black Album,” Pearl Jam's Ten, Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I & II, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, and Nirvana's Nevermind all dropped within 44 days of each other that year. How do you choose one?