In college, I spent three years of my life sitting in a long, octagon-shaped room reading college students’ papers aloud. This was my school’s Writing Center, and I worked there regularly—helping classmates with the often-arduous process of getting words from the head to the pen. As an English major at my little liberal arts college, […]
Here’s the thing about grammar: it’s weird, sometimes difficult, and can be full of seemingly redundant and unnecessary rules. But you know what else is weird, sometimes difficult, and full of seemingly redundant and unnecessary rules? Life. Monopoly. Economics. Dog parks. Nothing is perfect. Such is the curse of our flawed reality. Does this mean […]
