Category: writing / books
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Fantastic Four Two Comes Out This Week
I can’t wait!
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Book Review: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1), by Phillip Pullman
The Golden Compass is actually called Northern Lights in every place except North America. I guess the publishers thought that kids would get confused, because they would not know what lights could possibly be doing in the north. Never mind that the book never refers to the titular object as a compass; that’s not confusing…
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Read This or Else
So I finished my last and only exam today. The following occured to me: In grad school, it’s not really writing exams that matters, but the threat of writing exams. See, marks don’t really matter. In a grad course, everyone is going to get a good mark no matter how well (or poorly) they do…