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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

A Discussion on Psychological Gothic

A Discussion on Psychological Gothic

Amanda Rautio

The two pieces you will read this week have a great deal to do with how our modern conceptions of the gothic are understood -- first, Freud's "The Uncanny" or...

A Discussion on Psychological Gothic

Amanda Rautio

The two pieces you will read this week have a great deal to do with how our modern conceptions of the gothic are understood -- first, Freud's "The Uncanny" or...

Marriage Compared: Hills Like White Elephants and the Yellow Wallpaper

Marriage Compared: Hills Like White Elephants a...

Amanda Rautio

In "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the role of men is cast as a vastly superior role to that of women, and relationships are truly displayed as a...

Marriage Compared: Hills Like White Elephants a...

Amanda Rautio

In "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the role of men is cast as a vastly superior role to that of women, and relationships are truly displayed as a...

Hemingway: A Study on Dialogue

Hemingway: A Study on Dialogue

Amanda Rautio

In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" the dialogue is very realistic in that there is so much that is conveyed through what is not said. In speech, people are...

Hemingway: A Study on Dialogue

Amanda Rautio

In Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" the dialogue is very realistic in that there is so much that is conveyed through what is not said. In speech, people are...