Alas, bitterness was always going to creep in there somewhere. Thank you muchly.
Journalism / The Ten Commandments of Studentship
This writer has recently acquired a university degree. No, please – no champagne or chocolates required. I need to watch my figure. Rest assured, there were tears aplenty at the graduation ceremony. Not, as one might expect, tears of pride and elation, but tears instead of a deep and pounding sorrow. For in lieu of some wonderful surge of mirth and liberation, in my breast I felt the winding coil of sadness wrap around my heart, and the vicelike grip of woe latching onto my deepest soul; plunging me into the darkest recesses of an inescapable melancholia. I skipped the buffet.
Why must this be? For it should be thought the attainment of a degree represents the highest pinnacle in the development of the intelligent young individual, establishing a precedent of consistent intellectual advancement which shall be maintained for the remainder of their natural lives. This might well be the case, and if only it were true, but the tears I wept that afternoon were not for sentimental reasons, but wept out of a deep-seated bitterness. I wept for the losses, the lies and the follies of that time. Buckets of them. Tears cried for the injustices, the absurdities of it all and at the terminal cracklings of my dismal adolescence; slowly roasting away on the busted Old Cooker of Life. Forgive the mixed metaphors. This is an emotional moment here. I might need to bring the buckets back in.
Since I have served my time in the front line, a battle-weary soldier in the educational trenches, it seems right I pass on the experience to all budding students out there. For all those quick-witted bucks and buckettes hot on the trail of cerebral advancement via the medium of hour-long lectures, formulaic essays and forced discussions in Georgian tenements, these tips I impart to thee. I wish for new students not to suffer, but to appreciate how things are in the academic trenches. I wish for them to relish the most from the experience. It is an ugly, brutal, frustrating and often vicious time, but can be managed with some cunning and canny reorganisation of one’s life.
It is crucial for freshers and indeed those currently taking the occasional bullet in the trenches to be equipped with the proper savoir-faire before undertaking the service. The following rules and tips must be understood before a person even sets foot inside a lecture theatre or endeavours to call themselves a student. Once these rules are processed and adhered to, the student can begin the necessary process of self-denial; pretending to be somewhere else entirely for their entire time to survive the ordeal with a semblance of sanity and optimism. For some of us, alas, it is too late…
The Ten Commandments
1. There Is No Such Thing As Individuality
For those innocent babes, suckled and raised on the juicy teat of marketing, convinced a confrontational T-shirt bearing a “witty” slogan shall help distinguish them from the crop of student nobodies – this is grievous mistake. While it might seem unimportant at first, very soon the Tom Brown Student Hierarchy shall become apparent to all, and roles shall begin to define themselves despite attempts to mould or shape one’s character through futile attempts at self-styling. The Hierarchy is defined through the various stratum of student types, identified below.
A1: The brightest, most attractive and exciting students to be around, these people have been inherently popular and praised since birth. Capable of consistently outstanding academic work, this group shall progress to doctorates and advanced qualifications, breeding only with specimens of their type and instilling little more than rage in all those inferior to themselves (most people). Often the first choice as victims for kidnappers or crazed stalkers.
A2: As capable as the elite, this group are defined through their absence of physical beauty or magnetic personalities. The emphasis is therefore placed on their academic skills and often social astuteness is not quite as strong. Despite this, they still have the ability to meet invariably high standards, survive in social situations whenever required and are leagues ahead of other students in most areas. Defiant victims of childhood abuse often fit this category.
B1: Often envied more than A1 students, this type are those who achieve consistent success and lead lives which are often tangible for the inferior groups; just out of their reach through ugliness or ineptitude. Will often push to be in a higher category of brilliance but never attain this level, remaining focussed and attentive whenever required and aloof and laidback in social situations.
B2: The first group closer to an actual human beings, the B2 are a modest and perhaps self-deprecating bunch, but consistent academic achievers and moderate social successes. It is possible for an inferior student to befriend such a person, but would do so only out of pity on behalf of the B2.
C1: The most average but decent group of students, these people are categorised through their popularity and casual attractiveness. Their effortless style and magnetism compensates for their lack of sensational academic ability, and will find problems and complaints mainly with the work, not with the social side of things.
C2: In common with the C1, these people are average and more socially inept. It is probable however for the group to create themselves a comfortable niche which excludes themselves from improvement but facilitates basic survival. Often just envies the C1 group since it is aware of its limitations.
D1: The group who just scrapes through on mediocre grades and the most bone idle bunch of students, often unconcerned with the work and badly motivated. This division is the more socially equipped of the two remaining strata and will collect cliques within their own comfortable circles.
D2: A less photogenic collective of the above group, these students are often forgotten about through their involvement and fill out most of the “padding” within lectures or tutorials. Often untalkative and unhelpful, occasional dropouts or stoners.
E: The division I belonged to, these people are defined through their mega-super problems. They are ineffectual, unreliable and go MIA on more than four-hundred occasions. Trapped in the spin cycle of their own minds, they are their own worst enemies and suffer from daft social fears and persistently perform silly acts such as running away and hiding from civilisation. Prone to bouts of depression and weeping for weeks on end at the injustice of Man. Few survive intact.
It is important to learn where you stand within this Hierarchy. Once the roles are defined (within the first two weeks they become clear) the student can begin preparing for their time in full-time education. It is crucial to realise that these strata are set in stone – the individual cannot move from their fixed position in the Hierarchy and must accept their place if they are to survive. Attempts at changing one’s personality and character through the gimmicks of clothes or mannerisms shall result merely in complete embarrassment. Students and lecturers alike shall see through the charade and laugh heartily behind their backs at your pitiful delusion.
2. Fake An Interest In Everything
There comes a breaking point to every student’s interest in their degree subject. Perhaps it is Chapter 3 p45 of a textbook entitled “The Mechanics of Superabundance Within a Neo-Grecian Context (Vol. II)” or midway through a two-hour lecture on the exciting concept of deconstruction. At some stage, an almighty pall of boredom is going to overcome the student and perhaps induce a brief period of sobbing or self-harm. This is not required. The student just has to input certain slivers of information into the hard drive of his/her own mind, then spew them out whenever required. Turn yourself into a computer as best you can, and survival shall be a cinch.
The finest and most envied students are those with minds able to soak up page-upon-page of information, regardless of their understanding, and refer to it whenever necessary. Within the realm of fact this is most advantageous, however those required to formulate opinions on demand are going to need to relish the most tedious aspects of their course to maintain a consistent level of academic success. It helps to memorise key phrases to survive certain tutorials or one-to-ones with the scholars, especially when there are no right answers and a great deal can be argued successfully without prior thought. For instance, I trained myself to spout three or four bankable observations whenever struggling to make sense in a Eng Lit tutorial:
Tutor: “The novel touches upon Locke’s notion tabula rasa on several occasions while maintaining a sort of Calvinist inflection throughout the bulk of the narrative. What do you think he’s trying to imply with these religious and philosophical implications?”
Me: “Um… it’s a synoptic narrative.”
Tutor: “Right. I suppose that’s arguable. Anything else?”
Me: “It’s plot-driven not character-driven.”
Tutor: “Think so? Anything else?”
Me: “That’s all I found.”
3. Plagiarism Is Illegal, But Strongly Advised
The ratio of students to available academic data is wildly differential. So much so, in fact, plagiarism – although an evil force of corruption which should be stamped out – is almost impossible to avoid. A great deal of academic writing involves “copying out” the opinions of cleverer people and it is arguable most essays are inherently plagiaristic, sloshing around the same data in different phraseology and writing styles. The terms of plagiarism are being expanded and the rules tightened to avoid the overuse of effective, simple sources such as Wikipedia et al, but at some level, a sly rewording of a particular snatch of information will go a long way.
It might be a lazy technique, beneficial to no-one least of all yourself, but the careful use of plagiarism will need to be perfected to survive last-minute deadlines and times when work needs to be churned out quick and fast. It is important to realise that academics will not be able to decipher reworded snippets from scholarly texts and books once inserted into the fabric of an essay with subtle skill. All that is sought from many curricula is the semblance of original thought, or that unmentioned on the course reading list, jemmied into the work amid the mandatory stream of facts or relevant concepts.
To take a paragraph, strip it of the chaff and verbiage, reduce it to the salient facts and work them into an essay is crucial. To take someone else’s work and tweak the word order is essential since often the same point needs to be conveyed on more than one occasion. Most academic work is a continual struggle to express the exact same thoughts in a brand new way, while desperately groping for something new and unexplored which looks as though it might be interesting. The mires of existing thought from 10BC onwards will have to be waded through and there are no clean hands when it comes to this sort of thing. Plagiarism when verbatim is foolish, but when handled properly it is a crucial asset.
4. Hate Your Fellow Students
In wartime, new recruits were often used as human bullet shields for the older squaddies who wanted to stay alive. All fellow students should be treated as thus, except those inside one’s exclusive group of friends. When viewed on a panoramic scale, all students are to be found kicking around in the same plague pit, seeking to rid themselves from the eventual pestilence upon graduation – unemployment. Despite the comfortable excuse all students have of being on collective “a quest for knowledge” there is no practical use for one’s contemporaries except to steal information to improve individual grades. They are your mortal enemies. Vanquish them at every given opportunity. If need be, invite them around and poison them with a series of dodgy German cakes. Brain them with gold clubs. Crush them with forklift trucks. Insert arsenic into their milkshakes. Whatever – they must be destroyed.
Higher education is one large brain contest, it is the biggest game of Blockbusters writ large, and there is no escaping the perpetual demand upon your brain on a week-by-week basis those twisted professors require of all their students. For every one competitive, bright and industrious individual in a lecture theatre, there are one-thousand superior specimens in the next tutorial room, all going to scoop greater jobs than your mediocre self. It is capitalism in microcosm – the beginning of the eternal struggle we fools in the west have to outdo each other and earn more moolah than the next mediocre sod. This unpleasant truth will need to be swallowed. It goes down better with four shots of slivovitz.
Most students have their own self-interest at heart and wobblier notions of friendship and trust than the US Government. There is no consistency to be found in the belly of strangers. Keep them out. Mash them up. If embroiled in some sort of relationship or friendship from someone outside your barracks, keep in mind it will all have to dissolve at some point in a hail of bitter tears, thwarted dreams and protracted teary phone calls to your parents at 2AM. Make sure all tablets, guns and devices of self-termination are removed from the nearby vicinity should it all go belly-up emotionally, and remember you are dealing with a band of clueless fools who know next to (and including) nothing. Of which you are one.
5. Remember You’re Not A Grown-Up
The lion’s share of undergraduates are spat out into the realm of advanced study at the rump-end of adolescence. This means that students are juggling personal development, emotional and cerebral, as well as dealing with cumbersome academic subjects most adults would be baffled or bedevilled by. It is this pressure which leads to people cracking in all directions. Up, down, sideways, left, north and contrariwise. It is therefore important to take note of the following dos and don’ts to avoid humiliation and looking like a forty-two year old bourgeois fool. Here are some crucial examples:
Do Not
– Pretend to enjoy jazz, world or Gregorian plainsong music, it is atrocious gunk
– Pretend to delight in grown-up wines, middle-class foods or discuss current affairs, politics or theatre shows with an affected air of erudition (includes politics students)
– Attempt to forge serious relationships with people until the age of 26 or 34 (depending on personal development)
– Attempt to speak with anyone over 34 pretending you are both on the same wavelength
– Exaggerate your character to the extent people start to resent both your voice and your obnoxious face
– Discuss your subject with an academic under the assumption you actually know something, have a basic grasp of the subject or a passing interest in it at all
– Assume you have more than one-hundred British pounds in the bank at any given time (because you don’t)
Do
– Keep a low profile, feign ignorance whenever possible, speak to no-one unnecessary, lock yourself in after 5PM and pretend the world is made of cheese
6. Music Is Your One and Only Salvation
The proliferation of albums for all four seasons of the year is crucial for the survival of this ghastly time. Music resonates on a wholly emotional level in the way literature or movies do not, and will therefore be the most important preoccupation in your private life outside the regular sessions of self-mutilation. Kate Bush shall be plastered all over the walls and hailed as the preternatural being of mythical proportions she so rightly is. Bob Dylan shall be worshipped as the saviour of modern music and the permanent soundtrack to all college students rocking back and forth in lonesome bedsits planning revolutions. All those who dispute that Morrissey should be knighted and made King might wish to reconsider higher education. Farm work might be more up your alley. I recommend the following albums to help with the various emotional high ebbs and low ebbs:
a. Portishead: Dummy (1994)
This translucent collage of melodrama and kitchen-sink trip-hop is perfect for those enshrined in a nasty web of self-doubt and personal sorrow. Rather like me upon graduation. Like that back reference? Its swirling depression for me summed up the isolation which throbs through all of human existence, and provides an ample soundtrack for a lonesome walk down the cracked streets of our lives. Crucial for those dark nights of the soul (of which there will be plenty).
b. The Clash: London Calling (1979)
One of the finest albums ever made, this record is the sound of utter defiance in the face of ludicrous adversity. It is a staggering collusion of musical genres and sounds, rippling with a mesmeric vibe of sheer positivity which whacks home the reassuring message that compared to the historical hells of the past, there is reason aplenty to hop, skip and jump these days. Even if the earth is doomed and man has predicated his own downfall. Anyone seen my Prozac?
c. Kate Bush: Hounds of Love (1985)
Kate Bush is the surrogate mother to a generation of listeners and the finest voice to turn to whenever in need of reassurance of the preservation of the human spirit in the face of droughts, war and a late essay on King Edward III. It feels possible to achieve almost anything when listening to “Cloudbusting” and this delusion needs to embraced to survive most of the time.
The cultivation of a personal CD collection which covers all moods of the year and touches upon the massive spectrum of human emotion is crucial. Almost above everything else. There needs to be an album or a song behind each memory and it should be understood that in a choice between rescuing one’s dissertation and a limited edition pressing of an early Au Pairs LP – there can be no argument as to which is saved.
7. Socialising Can Induce Violence and Suicide
Despite the misanthropic inflection to that famous quote, muttered bitterly from the chapped lips of Gallic hero Jean-Paul Sartre – hell is other people. On top of this, students are the worst kind of people, which means an evening spent in their company is tantamount to dining with an exceedingly cheesed off King Herod and his overworked minions, loaded on Avernus Hooch. Students are a gaggle of hormonal smart-arses ripped to the brim on freedom, their own freewheeling ambition and the unlimited opportunity to prance around like a band of self-satisfied prats spouting quotes from the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre. We made me sick.
I have hobbled from the experience tarred with the soot-black brush of extreme pretentiousness and blatant literary showboating. Just look at the length of this piece. Or indeed that last sentence. In conversation, I waver between eager to show-off whatever scant knowledge I have acquired and the general, unrelenting desire to make some kind of basic sense. To speak with the student is to enter a minefield of prehensile, bourgeois dinner party chat and the drunken garblings of mid-nineties beer drinkers; unused to consuming such an abundant level of alcohol. Their determination to fuse the hedonistic ways of the “drink now think later” ethic of Blair’s Britain to the gleaned intelligence of their courses knows no bounds. Plus we are all a bunch of neurotic and self-deprecating bores liable to wee on your shoes. Take this snippet from a casual student party conversation for example:
Student #1: “So, you know, what do you, you know… huh, take? As in study, I man… mean. I man! I’m always doing that. You know, um… what’s it called? Where you get a word wrong?”
Student #2: “Misappropriating. Spooning. Dropping letters and drooping laters. Yeah, I do that too sometimes. Um, I take Sanskrit and Advanced Maths 1B.”
Student #1: “Yeah? What’s that like? Lots of sums and that, I suppose. Well, obviously since it’s Maths. Stupid me, stupid me!”
Student #2: “Yeah, lots of sums. Professor’s a bit of wiener.”
Student #1: “I know what you mean. I’ve got this fat guy who looks like that fat director, and he’s like such a grad-grinder. You know? Like totally picks us up on stuff if we get it wrong. What’s Sanskrit?”
Oh, help me… anyone got a stun gun?
8. Part-Time Jobs Are For Fools
The entire draw of full-time education is the six month period of “me-time” which allows the individual to lock themselves in rooms writing dreadful fiction or devouring month-old yoghurts in their underpants, preoccupied with re-runs of “The Quatermass Experiment.” It has always been thus and so it shall be forever. Those who actively seek to work to improve their CVs are little more than deadened shrimps on the smorgasbord of corporate slavery, and should be ashamed to abuse this time with unnecessary foresight and intelligence. You all know who you are.
It seems bizarre that a person should wish to override the freedom of having no genuine worries and a general kind of freedom to explore the ugliest recesses of their brain and go mano-a-mano with their own subconscious to work in bar with leering alcoholics and assorted dropouts on the merry-go-round of life. The free-time should not be abused. It should be explored as a time for deep self-exploration. For instance, I discovered after two summers writing four or five rubbish books and pushing my family out from my life that I utterly despised myself. It is important to have this free time to make these realisations.
9. Know Your Place
Despite the pleasant veneer of warmth and interest in the “individual,” each academic institution can be as unpleasant and impersonal as most faceless multinational corporations. There are no such people as mentors or free-thinkers who shall change your perception of the world at large. These people do no exist. Academics are busy people with essays to write, material to produce and pills to pop. It is important to appreciate that once matriculated you are merely a number in a series of numbers; an insignificant speck of dirt on the treacherous rockslide of academia.
Do not attempt to befriend the academics. They have to keep all students at arm’s length so it doesn’t become too heartbreaking when they mark your essays with a big fat zero for plagiarism. Things will only happen through a confluence of pure chance. It is important to realise that you are a mere pustule, hideous and unappealing, unlikely to lose your virginity until your mid-twenties. It is a harsh reality to face but at least saves up some good things for when you get older in life.
Also, be weary of the fads and popular trends of studentship. It is not important to read the entire oeuvre of William Burroughs or watch the entire cinematic canon of Luis Bunuel to fit in. Most students will have no working knowledge of such works. It is also not required to fall in love with the Pixies, but on a personal note it is certainly recommended.
10. Don’t Worry About Money – You Don’t Have Any
“A little sleep, a little slumber, some folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a vagabond and want like an armed man.”– Book of Proverbs
Indeed this is true in the case of studentship. With the subtle difference that often a student wakes up more in debt than he was when he went to sleep. Ha ha. Unless you are a student whose well-endowed parents throws buckets of cash at you to go on inter-railing expeditions throughout India (never popular in my eyes), being cash-strapped is a way of life. Surviving this is simple. Here are some tips:
– Eat one meal a day and survive on junk food only; make Costcutters your cathedral
– Always leave your wallet behind (after first destroying your wallet)
– Borrows books once, make a note of key passages then return them immediately
– Establish a network of sympathetic relatives with large retirement packages who like you
– Steal a lot
Use This Knowledge Wisely…
This brings us to the end of my Ten Commandments. I hope some were of use to all those wannabe students, and I know some were technically not commandments. It doesn’t matter – no one likes a pedant. Just remember that your time in higher education will either be the worst three or four years of your life, or indeed the finest. Determining which is either down to the Fates or how you approach the super-sized mantle of university. If nothing else, it shall open quarters of your mind which shall stay open for a mighty long time. That itself is invaluable. Now be gone. I must cuddle my degree.
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A_Silly_Lady_Novelist reviewed Version 1 -
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This sends a horrible message to our youth, and encourages to lie, cheat, and steal.
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Okay, I loved it. Being a highschool student, I relate to this way too much. (Wikipedia!) I especially enjoyed the hierarchy and the advice about not changing who you are. This probably isn’t a very constructive review, but here is one suggestion:
Under number four, you might want to say on a collective “quest” rather than ”
collective ‘a quest. . .’”
Now, I’m usually criticizing my eyeballs out, but that is only negative thing I found in this whole piece. Kudos to you, my friend, and good luck with your degree!
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I found this to be humorously entertaining. It was well written. I wasn’t hit in the face with any errors as I read it. That is good.
I like the 10 commandments. As a college grad myself, I could relate.
I especially liked Commandment 1 and 2.
I don’t totally agree with the plagiarism commandment, but that is ok – as someone once said…to each their own.
The only issue I may have with this piece, is at times it seems to lose the tongue-in-cheek but serious tone. Like the plagiarism section. Seemed more bitter than satirical.
Good job overall.
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I’m writing this review sitting on my porclein toilet—the only place my wireless internet functions above the capacity of a 28k modem. Beside me lie political science, theater, sociology, philosophy, and English textbooks; it’s Finals Week. The great thing about working off a toilet is the availability of a bin for nervous vomiting.
I’ve enjoyed your piece—it’s written to include students of all ages, but seems to stop there. Reading your article, I couldn’t imagine older adults taken with sudden senses of nostalgia, nor could I find the uneducated, casual reader chuckling along with the slight sardonic voice.
However, it was good. I liked it. A perfect piece of narrowcast marketability that could be used as an example of good writing for English 101 and Journalism 102 students.
blimprue reviewed Version 1 -
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I’m not sure you can completely transpose a British college students experiences onto an Americans, look how popular The Dandy Warhol’s were in Britain vs America.
You know this isn’t an American meditation by the fact there is no ruminating obsession with Godzilla-sized debt post-graduation…
Very enjoyable read though, and could probably be expanded indefinitely-perhaps into an off-beat college guide.
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First off, I think oyu have a bright future in literary journalism; given the right oppurtunites and breaks of course. Kudos on the subject matter and structure of the piece. At first it seemed that it was to be a warring off of those who are not fit or really desire for higher education. Now I realize that it is just a honest guide of obvservtions and tips on surving the college experience. One thing I must comment on is that I have learned that in journalism always assume the reader knows NOTHING. If the subject wasn’t shcolasticlly based I would be more incline to critize for the advanced use of vocabulary (you even gave youeself such critizism). This could have been dissaterious for the piece. (Please excuse my spellin errors, my billiwick lies in creative, not compositional literature, therefore I have grown to careless about spelling and grammar. That’s why we pay editors). On example of this point that stood out was when you referenced a quote by Jean-Paul Satre, yet failed to provide said quote. Again, the reader knows NOTHING. A+++ on your content points. Especially the sections about part time jobs and music. And I truly enjoyed hpw you broke the social rankings of a universities student body. Get this published with slight revisions. I know that the more prospective students who read this shall be aided in ways that they never imagined!!!
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Hey, firstly, the ten commandments need to be imperatives, do this, don’t do that etc. You can’t make statements like: Socialising Can Induce Violence and Suicide, Part-Time Jobs Are For Fools. Got it? So that is the central flaw in this essay. There are many other smaller language or grammar mistakes. You have a good degree of eloquence, but the problem is you get carried away by your own poetry. As a consequence of which, this essay is at least double the length than it should be, perhaps even more. 4000 words for this essay? No way, man, that is 16 250-word double spaced pages! Is this poetry or journalism?! Cut it drastically. Make it into a 1500-word essay, and perhaps if you want you can two more pages then. So what you do, you cut down that spite aspect, no one is interested in your spite and ranting, make it a pragmatic to-the-point senior to junior advice, simply sharing your hindsight wisdom in as calm way as possible. Just keep a severe check on your natural effusiveness, you are becoming self-destructive. However much I wanted to read the essay from the top to bottom, I was not able to do it because of its hugely overblown proportions. Cut down on poetry, cut down on sentiment, abridge it, abridge it. I am really impressed with your fluency, you seem to have a natural talent, but it needs to be pruned and honed, forgive the mixed metaphor me too. I am giving you 10 out of 10 on talent worth shaping, but rather poor marks in the two other criteria. The article goes on and on and on. Do something about it now! Remember you are not living in 18th century, where people would be delighted to find something/anything to read at all. You are living in the internet age, no one has no time, and if you want to convey anything at all, make it as concise as possible. A three page essay, you can take maximum up to 8-9 pages but not more.
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this is my first journalism piece that i have reviewed. i really like the 10nth commandment “10. Don’t Worry About Money – You Don’t Have Any” it is really funny and adds some humor to it. these are all very good and i think that you should make more then just ten and then place then into one piece. good work keep it up.
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did you write ALL this by yourself or did you have help? it was extremely long to me so i didnt read all of it, but since i am about to be a returning college student it might come in handy. the parts i did read though are very helpful! i find myself alone and sad all the time when i am in school, so reading this is going to save my life. i nearly didnt make it out of my first semester alive. ;) thank you.
F_A_Trueman reviewed Version 1 -
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It’s always difficult to pass judgement on people like you. There’s just nothing to criticise. Or at least that’s what I think. You write with such fluidity and confidence and it’s really enjoyable to read. It’s something that most people, at some point in their life will wish they had because they’re going through the same situation as the people that this is aimed at. I love the sort of sardonic off-hand way that you write yet still manage to be funny and likable through your words. Anyway, I really liked it, sorry for not giving you any criticism :)
Keep it up, please!
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This is excellent but my only big critisism is that it is a bit too wordy. In some cases the point was made in the first paragraph but it went one or two paragraphs longer. Having lived through the caste system of various schools over the years trying to stay annonymous is actually pretty good advice, at least to start. I would add that avoiding people with really aggressive personalities in general is a good plan as well. Doing otherwise is simply asking to get bullied.
All in all a solid piece that just needs to be trimmed down a little bit.
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