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Anecdotes Archive

It’s raining poems

By  Emily Homrok
Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Today in yet another glorious art history class, our typical discussions of the spiritual nature of [...]


Cherish Your Books

By  Ali Cahill
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

I love bookcases. I wish I had enough books to fill a whole library worth of [...]


Teacher Tactics

By  Jen Fromal
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

In my “The Teaching of Writing” class yesterday, we were prompted to think and write about [...]


Literary Artistry

By  Lydia Smith
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

The train rumbled over the tracks and sunlight flickered in the window as I stared down [...]


Books to movies: I’m still not sure that I’m a fan of adaptations.

By  Jen Fromal
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

This weekend I was confronted with the option of watching “Blindness,” the movie adaptation of José [...]


Child’s Play

By  Kathleen Volk Miller
Saturday, March 14th, 2009

As we stood in the hallowed halls of academia, a colleague asked me a highbrow, intellectual [...]


Saving the Best for Last

By  Rachel Semigran
Friday, March 13th, 2009

It’s week ten here at Drexel, the official last week of the term. It’s been an [...]