Now that summer has drawn to a close and the school year has arrived, many of you will have left the nest for the first time and moved into that staple of college comedy: the dorm. As a recent college graduate and an employee of the front desk of a residence hall for nearly two…
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For Students: eNotes’ Intern Offers Writing Tips
5 Writing Habits to Ditch Now Our fabulous and world-worn eNotes intern returns to share cautionary tales from the battlefield of her college experience. Okay, so really she just graduated from UCLA and is dead smart, but that just means you should pay attention to what she says even more. This time, she covers the five…
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How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Or, "Why It's Okay to Use eNotes' Study Guides" Modern literatis everywhere are faced with a crippling predicament: every month of the year, publishing houses churn out one bestseller after another, each one peaking our interest more than the last. And true booklovers, or at least those who want to be considered such, are expected…
For Students: eNotes’ Intern Spills on the Other Ways to Prepare for College
Your teachers and counselors may have all of your academic college-prep under control (or if not, eNotes.com is here to help), but we at eNotes know that there's a lot more to the adjustment of going off to university than pure schooling. Most of you will be moving away from home, and aside from the…
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Sing It, Shakes! Shakespeare in Pop Music
In the Merchant of Venice, the Prince of Morocco warns, "All that glisters is not gold." This sage advice has been repeated in some unlikely sources, from Led Zepplin's "Stairway to Heaven" to Marilyn Manson's "Posthuman." Here are some other instances of modern musicians who pay lyrical homage to Shakespeare: Line from Highway 61 Revisited,…
Neil Gaiman’s Advice for Living Creatively
I have no idea who the speakers were at my own graduation ceremonies. Luckily, the kids who just graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia will not have that problem, as their commencement guest was author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline). Although Gaiman never graduated from any college himself, he is…
Cynic No More: Doctoral Student Lands Fame, Job
Not that long ago, aspiring writers had to resort to submitting their work to various magazines and other publishers far and wide. We would tuck our (yes, typewritten) manuscripts into unsympathetic manilla envelopes. Those unsympathetic envelopes would land on the desks of various unsympathetic copy editors, who, I imagined, gave our scripts a glance and…
Education for All: How “Coursera” is Quietly Changing the Face of Academia
How would you like to listen to lectures and participate in assignments and discussions led by professors from Stanford, Princeton, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania, without the crushing costs of top university fees? A new start-up named "Coursera" is offering just that. Completely free to anyone who signs up, Coursera boasts…
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