/lit/ - Literature

>>2967030
But at least I know I'm evil and hate myself for it.

>That feel when you graduate magna cum lauda with a B.A. in English.

>That feel when you didn't read any of the books assigned to you but just SparkNotes. NOT A SINGLE BOOK, NO EXCEPTIONS FOR 4 YEARS.

>That feel when you would just take some published essay and rewrite it for your papers in a borderline plagiaristic way but would always include the essay in the works cited and include quotes from it, so it didn't really matter and your professors wouldn't have given a shit anyway.

>That feel when you received an award for being the most outstanding English student at the school.

>That feel when you feel like a fraud.

>That feel when your professors encourage you to go on to graduate school.

>That feel when you don't really even like literature at all but don't want to get a job so you apply to grad school.

>That feel when you're actually accepted to a program where you can be a T.A. and not go into debt.

>That feel when whatthefuckhaveigottenmyselfinto.jpg

>That feel when you come onto /lit/ and see everyone here is 100 times more well read than you are and you're the one working on your M.A. in English in the fall.

>That feel when you decide to start reading for real, make it 20 pages into the Iliad and give up. Then when you try to read a modern easy classic like Joy Luck Club, get bored and play Fallout New Vegas, instead.

>That feel when grad school is looming before you.

>That feel when your whole life is a fraud.

>That feel, /lit/
>That feel.

>Also what do?

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