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The Sum of My Undergraduate Degree

Call it being Type "A", being anal retentive, intelligent, stupid, crazy, on-crack, but I saved every single paper from my undergraduate degree (at least most of them.)

Most people write their papers, wipe their brows with tear-soaked tissues, and say "thank fuck that's done so I can never think about THAT again," before moving onto the next paper.

To me, I thought that was a waste. If I'm going to spend five years of my life writing papers, researching, and learning how to think deeply and critically, how can you measure your actual progress without keeping that record? So. I kept it. And it is very obvious how much I grew even year to year, never mind how much I grew from year one to year five.

Preserved entirely, I present, ALL of my papers that have survived (alas, when my mac died on me, I didn't have every single one backed up, so you can see the gaps in the earlier years). I have published them so it actually adheres to the dates they were submitted, and from most recent to least recent.

The growth is astonishing.

All the essays are available for free below, but a bound edition will soon be available, and the funds from the sales of this book will be 100% going to my student debt.

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Juvenilia: University-Era Essays

Late Renaissance Poetry & Prose Final

Late Renaissance Poetry & Prose Final

Amanda Rautio

I. PART I i. ‘Why Must I Thus Forever Be Confined,’ Hester Pulter In “Why Must I Thus Forever be Confined,” by Hester Pulter, rhyme scheme and meter play a...

Late Renaissance Poetry & Prose Final

Amanda Rautio

I. PART I i. ‘Why Must I Thus Forever Be Confined,’ Hester Pulter In “Why Must I Thus Forever be Confined,” by Hester Pulter, rhyme scheme and meter play a...

Blake’s Conceptions of Virtue and Evil

Blake’s Conceptions of Virtue and Evil

Amanda Rautio

A running theme across all poems from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is the idea of balanced opposites. However, Blake demonstrates his ideas of virtue and evil by...

Blake’s Conceptions of Virtue and Evil

Amanda Rautio

A running theme across all poems from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is the idea of balanced opposites. However, Blake demonstrates his ideas of virtue and evil by...

Everything is Pointless: A Feel Good Guide to Aspire for Nothing

Everything is Pointless: A Feel Good Guide to A...

Amanda Rautio

In the poem, “The Vanity of Human Wishes,” by Samuel Johnson, the speaker demonstrates different scenarios throughout history where the pursuit of power ultimately goes wrong, and in the of...

Everything is Pointless: A Feel Good Guide to A...

Amanda Rautio

In the poem, “The Vanity of Human Wishes,” by Samuel Johnson, the speaker demonstrates different scenarios throughout history where the pursuit of power ultimately goes wrong, and in the of...