So /lit/, are you all as pretentious in real life as you are here? >Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where? >What do you want to do with your life? >What are you doing with your life right now? >Favorite author of all time? Take my goddamn survey.

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Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:07:36 2011 No.1418725 [Reply] [Original]

So /lit/, are you all as pretentious in real life as you are here?

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
>What do you want to do with your life?
>What are you doing with your life right now?
>Favorite author of all time?

Take my goddamn survey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:10:36 2011 No.1418731 inb4 flood of harvard, yale, and cambridge

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:12:36 2011 No.1418740 I don't act pretentious IRL. >University of Texas at Austin >Become a neurologist at a children's hospital while partaking in neurobiological research >I'm on break so I'm reading a fuck ton of biology, math, and some hesse and dostoevsky >Dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:12:36 2011 No.1418742 >Studying at Tufts >Want to either go into diplomacy (international relations are excellent here) or go into journalism >Full time student, no time for a job yet >Hemingway

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:12:36 2011 No.1418743

>>1418725
>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Yes, studying engineering in Ireland
>What do you want to do with your life?
Move to LA and pursue my amateur acting or music career. Just a wild dream though, however I intend to make good on this before I'm 30.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
In university, drinking, partying and studying. Little bit of dating too
>Favorite author of all time?
I don't read books unless there's an equation in it.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:13:36 2011 No.1418746

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Yes. University of Central Oklahoma.
>What do you want to do with your life?
Finish my BA in English, get an MBA and try my luck on the corporate ladder.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Delivering pizza to work my way through school.
>Favorite author of all time?
Franz Kafka.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:15:36 2011 No.1418748 >I have two years of a philo degree done at a small school in Ohio >Fuck bitches, smoke trees, etc >Wasting it on 4chan >Kafka pretentious as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:15:36 2011 No.1418749 File: 22 KB, 180x260, raised-eyebrow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1418743 >>1418743 >I don't read books >is on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:16:36 2011 No.1418751 >>1418748 Oberlin? I hear they got the dizzank down

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:17:36 2011 No.1418752

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Yes, University of Texas.
>What do you want to do with your life?
Not sure yet, probably something to do with library cataloging or teaching.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Going to school, reading, video games, and not much else.
>Favorite author of all time?
Yasunari Kawabata

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:19:36 2011 No.1418755 >University of Edinburgh >Global domination >Fibreoptic network design >Probably Robert Louis Stevenson

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:20:36 2011 No.1418757 >>1418751 Nah bro. The dizzank was definitely not down where I was. The philo department being in an attic should have clued me in when I visited years ago, but alas.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:21:36 2011 No.1418761

inb4 underage b&
haven't been in a uni. Not even in high-school yet.
planning to be an astrophysicist.
favorite author: Greg bear I guess. since I'm young I don't know all these famous ones but I do read quite a lot.

inb4 bad grammar - on phone so fuuuu

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:23:36 2011 No.1418768

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?

Yes. It's pretty obscure. You've probably never heard of it. :3

>What do you want to do with your life?
I'm kind of split between a vicious grab at wealth and power, or just settling for being a lazy highschool english teacher.

>What are you doing with your life right now?
Last semester of my english degree. Teach TOEFL part time.

>Favorite author of all time?
I don't really have a favorite. There are authors that I try to emulate though. I'm way past actually enjoying books : (

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:24:36 2011 No.1418769 >>1418761 >astrophysicist well get the fuck off 4chan and start studying you dumb cunt. As Walt Whitman once said, "Astrophysics degrees, Do not grow on trees"

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:25:36 2011 No.1418778

>>1418725
>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
BA in English and BFA in Creative Writing from University of North Carolina Wilmington.
>What do you want to do with your life?
Teach, work on a literary journal, write.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Pursuing an MFA in Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago, working as a writing tutor on campus, teaching freshman composition, reading submissions for a literary journal
>Favorite author of all time?
Faulkner

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:28:36 2011 No.1418785 Pennsylvania State University Be a journalist / write. Going to college / working part time. Camus. I try not to sound like a pretentious dick, both irl and on /lit/.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:28:36 2011 No.1418787

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Bath Spa University
>What do you want to do with your life?
Not sure really, wish I had a direction or notion of interest that I wished to pursue but I genuinely cannot answer this question, and I have repetitively tried.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Right now, attending University, drinking rather excessively, not many other social prospects.
>Favorite author of all time?
Well the one I am most obsessed with currently is Christopher Hitchens, but I go through phases of many different authours.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:29:36 2011 No.1418788

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
The University of The West of England (Bristol)
>What do you want to do with your life?
Radio jornalism
>What are you doing with your life right now?
student doing BA English Lit and Philo
>Favorite author of all time?
Franz Kafka

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:32:36 2011 No.1418799 >>1418787 hey bro

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:33:36 2011 No.1418801

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
University of Evansville in a year.
>What do you want to do with your life?
To be happy I guess. Beyond that I don't know.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Nothing. Self-improvement/masturbation. However you want to look at it.
>Favorite author of all time?
John Steinbeck

Ailuro !R3KaqUUePU Mon Jan 3 01:36:27 2011 No.1418807 [DELETED]

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?

I'm planning on attending Kenyon College in Gambier, OH. Recently rated as having the most beautiful college campus in the U.S.

>What do you want to do with your life?

I'm still trying to figure this out. There are plenty of things I could major in out of interest, but I'd prefer to get a degree in a well-paying field.

>What are you doing with your life right now?

Nothing. :/

>Favorite author of all time?

I don't have a favorite.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:37:36 2011 No.1418810 ITT /lit/ can't back up their posturing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:37:36 2011 No.1418812 >>1418799 You live in Bath bro?

>>	teh brax Mon Jan 3 01:37:36 2011 No.1418813 >>1418788 >Radio jornalism sounds about right

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:40:36 2011 No.1418823 >>1418812 Na Bristol man. What you study? >>1418813 Like This American Life and Radiolab...

John Smith Mon Jan 3 01:41:36 2011 No.1418825

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Afraid not, dropped out of college due to medical reasons and haven't gone back into education since.
>What do you want to do with your life?
No long-term plans in particular.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Sitting at home reading books, listening to music and generally just living the life of a hermit.
>Favorite author of all time?
Hard to say. Franz Kafka probably, though I've always quite liked Osamu Dazai.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:42:36 2011 No.1418826 and what the fuck is all this brax

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:42:36 2011 No.1418827 >jornalism

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:42:36 2011 No.1418828 >>1418823 English Literature and Film Theory.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:42:36 2011 No.1418830 >>1418826 You'll see.

Ailuro !lS7i8rraUA Mon Jan 3 01:42:36 2011 No.1418831

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Planning to attend Kenyon College in Ohio. It's small and not well-known, but was recently rated as having the most beautiful campus in the U.S.
>What do you want to do with your life?
I still don't know yet. I'm hoping to find a major that is relevant to my interests AND offers good pay.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Nothing. :/
>Favorite author of all time?
I don't have one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:43:36 2011 No.1418833 >>1418831 Have 3 friends who go there. Good school.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:44:36 2011 No.1418834 >>1418831 You posted that, deleted, then reposted with trip. FUCK OFF TRIPFAG, YOUR KIND IS NOT WELCOME HERE

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:45:36 2011 No.1418835 journalism.....been a long night yo

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:46:36 2011 No.1418839 >>1418834 See now this is what that evil unmentionable tripfag has done. Made us hate every single tripfags in all cases.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:48:36 2011 No.1418845 >>1418839 Trips are cunts, no exceptions.

>>	Ailuro !lS7i8rraUA Mon Jan 3 01:50:34 2011 No.1418851 >>1418834 Why are you so mad?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:52:36 2011 No.1418864 File: 18 KB, 354x365, camron1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1418851 >mfw fully articulated u mad

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:52:36 2011 No.1418866 >>1418851 cunt

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:55:36 2011 No.1418877 I leave for 10 minutes and you guys divert the topic of this thread? Tripfag, I know you mean well, but your actions caused this ruckus. Out, all of you. Slightly disappointed, The charming OP (Should I make a trip out of that?) jklol

>>	hurrdurr !vhMgXxWI5s Mon Jan 3 01:57:34 2011 No.1418884 File: 24 KB, 400x365, trollface.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] evry1 post with trip

>>	hurrdurr !vhMgXxWI5s Mon Jan 3 01:58:36 2011 No.1418890 wat

>>	feces !53vGW9I9HI Mon Jan 3 01:59:33 2011 No.1418898 Fuck you tripfags. Go to hell, all of you.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 01:59:36 2011 No.1418897

>Computer Science at the University of Waterloo
>I'm not really sure, but I'm really interested in theoretical CS and related mathematics so I'm planning to go to grad school and maybe if I don't hate math by the time I have a PhD I can do research or something.
>Alternating between going to school and co-op jobs; I just moved to Ottawa to start a co-op term working for the government.
>David Foster Wallace

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:02:36 2011 No.1418904

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Senior in High School. Hoping I'm accepted in Brown. Wish me luck, /lit/.
>What do you want to do with your life?
Possibly college professor. If that doesn't work out, gonna starve to death being a poet
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Herping my way through the American public derp. Working as a part time translator/interpretative shitfuck person. Doing Forensics on the side (More liek, every waking hour)
>Favorite author of all time?
I shit you not, Frederich Nietzsche.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:04:36 2011 No.1418913

attending the Academy of Art University, transferring to Marylhurst University.
I am an art therapy major, focus on abnormal psych.
Right now I am in school and working a cruddy part time job like most other college students. also recently married, I am 22.
Favorite author of all time...Gustave Flaubert or T.S. Eliot, though he is a poet.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:08:36 2011 No.1418928

Yes, Institute of Production and Recording.
I would like to play music professionally for a living even if I don't become rich or hugely successful at it. I just want to be able to live comfortably (which for me would be easy) so I could just hang out and listen ton/play music/read/write/do nothing all day. That would be glorious.
I'm almost done with school. I graduate in March. Hopefully then I'll get an internship at one of my favorite record labels here in town, and continue to just do nothing and hang out with friends, while doing what I mentioned above, and then working just to pay off my student loans.
I don't have a favorite author of all time. I can't ever pick a favorite anything due to the fact that I might forget someone or a work of somebody's and then I end up going back and reconsidering and evaluating whether or not that would really constitute as my "favorite".

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 03:21:36 2011 No.1419070

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?

Graduated Summa Cum Laude with departmental honors at the University of Kentucky, for a B.A. in English Lit.

>What do you want to do with your life?

Teach AP lit, history, psychology, or film at an upper-middle class secondary school. Maybe teach at the college level later in life. Also thinking about library science.

>What are you doing with your life right now?

Going to a regional college to earn my teaching certificate. If I'd wised up and researched job market stuff sooner, I could've done this during undergrad. Still, it's only another year and I'm avoiding the horrendous job market, so it could be worse. I also peer tutor and will (hopefully) land a job at the local library.

>Favorite author of all time?

William Faulkner, or Walt Whitman

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 03:25:36 2011 No.1419079

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
MSci Physics at University College London
>What do you want to do with your life?
If /lit/ and my labs are anything to go by, as far away from academia as possible.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Finishing my degree, another 18 months left
>Favorite author of all time?
Alexandre Dumas

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 03:27:36 2011 No.1419083 >>1419070 "Regional University". You at NKU, anon? Or is it Morehead?

STLFag !IeX.oK0HUk Mon Jan 3 03:28:36 2011 No.1419085

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Attending Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
>What do you want to do with your life?
Attend and graduate from law school for short-term. Long-term, I have no actual interest in practicing law, but I need to make my degree viable, and the financial stability that seems to go along with that is very tempting.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Reading like a bandit. Mainly I'm focused on getting through school with a high enough GPA to be competitive for post-secondary education. I'm also working on being less shy (and thus FOREVER ALONE).
>Favorite author of all time?
Ernest Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 03:28:36 2011 No.1419086 even more so university of missouri honors in philosophy; 2l nyu law become a lawyer chode school and internship cormac mccarthy

>>	The_Baron_Vlad !HgKwMXBeQI Mon Jan 3 03:29:36 2011 No.1419087 >Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where? Yep. >What do you want to do with your life? All sorts of shit. >What are you doing with your life right now? All sorts of shit. >Favorite author of all time? Melville

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 03:37:36 2011 No.1419108 >>1419083 Murray State, actually. It's very similar to Morehead, but on the west side. Both started as teacher's colleges, IIRC. You from KY, man?

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 03:52:36 2011 No.1419140

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
No, but I sent out applications just yesterday.
>What do you want to do with your life?
I want to be the guy who decides which books are published.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Nothing productive. Unless you count honing my writing craft.
>Favorite author of all time?
George Orwell

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 03:56:36 2011 No.1419147 No, and I probably never will due to being poor, going on my mid 20's, and not having any interests that would propel me through to the end. Nothing. Nothing. IDK, Douglas Adams?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 03:59:36 2011 No.1419152 >>1419108 Murray was my third guess, but throwing out too many makes you look like a dolt. More Louisville/WKU people go out there, so I played the odds. And yeah, I'm from Kentucky.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:11:36 2011 No.1419169

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Attending Hunter College
>What do you want to do with your life?
Profess to the res'
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Studying English Literature as an undergrad
>Favorite author of all time?
I have a massive crush on Flannery O'Connor, though she's not part of my academic interests.

Neuro !qdUPARcrn. Mon Jan 3 04:15:36 2011 No.1419175

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?

Graduated with a B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Eastern Connecticut State University. It is a terrible, terrible school, and my time there would have been better spent chewing through my own legs. I liked the classes in my major though.

>What do you want to do with your life?

I dunno. Become a professor and do research I guess. Also, go into politics. Also, a ton of other things.

>What are you doing with your life right now?

Working full time at a used book store, living at home, applying to other jobs.

>Favorite author of all time?

Jorge Luis Borges.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:16:36 2011 No.1419177 >>1418810 Pretty pathetic, I've got to say.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:18:36 2011 No.1419180

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Just graduated from the University of Melbourne (Australia)
>What do you want to do with your life?
Trying to decide whether or not to 'switch streams' - finance? or government work?
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Applying to everyone and everything. Reading, brushing up on my languages.
>Favorite author of all time?
Camus

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:28:36 2011 No.1419193 >>1419180 What languages?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:30:36 2011 No.1419196 currently undergrad in biochemical engineering genetic engineering, my dream is to create life from scratch studying all day every day Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:31:36 2011 No.1419197 >University of California at Santa Barbara >Teach, write, travel >Studying abroad in prep for my thesis. >Faulkner or DFW

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:32:36 2011 No.1419198 File: 59 KB, 407x405, butthurt-dweller.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1419152 Right on! I never seen Kentucky people on here. What are your plans, broseph? >>1419177 >your face

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:32:36 2011 No.1419199 what's real life?

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:33:36 2011 No.1419203

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Yes and its in canada you've never heard of it
>What do you want to do with your life?
teach history at the university level
i want to get paid to ramble on and on about caesar and punish those who don't play attention by lowering gpas
>What are you doing with your life right now?
school
>Favorite author of all time?
from ages 12-20 it was frank herbert and now im not too sure wtf is wrong with me

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:35:36 2011 No.1419206

>>1418725
>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
No, Community College. Adam Smith College

>What do you want to do with your life?
Become a history teacher or some other history based-profession.

>What are you doing with your life right now?
Doing a HNC social Science course, applied for history at 5 Scottish universities for next year.

>Favorite author of all time?
Gabrial Garcia Marquez

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:48:36 2011 No.1419225 >>1419193 German, Thai and Japanese (and English, duh). Jap. isn't really up to standard at all, I'll probably have to take up some more lessons, it has been so long.... that or just jump on the bandwagon and learn mandarin :P

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 04:53:36 2011 No.1419236 >Junior at Berkeley >Dunno, lol. Most likely teach after graduating--college was more of a personal choice than a pragmatic one. >Nothing in particular: work, school (during semester), read, etc. >Hemingway

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 08:33:36 2011 No.1419419

>>1419169
are you taught by the legendary blake schwarzenbach?

>>cambridge university
>>scriptwriting, playwriting, working a menial job so i get hungry enough to become good at my art
>>holiday before my penultimate term at cambridge. reading a lot of contemporary fiction, crawling through moby dick for the american lit paper
>>joe orton or martin mcdonagh.

LadyLux Mon Jan 3 08:46:36 2011 No.1419431

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?

Hopefully I will be, offers come out in a few weeks. MBBS in Australia.

>What do you want to do with your life?

Practice as an oncologist/pediatrician (if I ever make it that far), publish a few small pieces, teach on the side, travel.

>What are you doing with your life right now?

Four-month break, ends in Feb. Just reading, teaching/working, writing and generally enjoying myself.

>Favorite author of all time?

Yates, but I'm making my way through Camus so that might change.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 08:53:36 2011 No.1419437

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
I attended a couple of colleges, but didn't finish. I'm considering starting up again to study Medieval literature.
>What do you want to do with your life?
I have no idea. I used to want to write, and even though I'm almost done with my second novel, I'm kind of disgusted with it. I guess, try again? I don't know. I have times where I don't think it's that bad.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Working nights at a hotel. Reading quite a bit, trying to learn things on my own. I write some short stories and work on that novel I mentioned when I can bring myself to do it. Reading mostly.
>Favorite author of all time?
Charles Dickens is my favorite fiction writer; C.S. Lewis is my favorite nonfiction writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 08:56:36 2011 No.1419439 I am occasionally pretentious... >I am not >Relax and sleep as much as possible >Working in a corner shop and sleeping as much as possible >Orwell maybe

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 09:10:36 2011 No.1419459

>>1418725

No, I don't consider myself pretentious. I've been called it a few times, however, by people who seem to think that anyone who enjoys culture and the arts is therefore necessarily pretentious.

>ANU (Australian National University) in Canberra, Australia.
>I want to be an archaeologist or historian.
>Studying.
>Grrr, hate this question. Nabokov, maybe, though I love the classics like Ovid or Virgil.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 09:20:36 2011 No.1419473

>Oxford University later this year provided I get the grades, fuck yeah (sort of, I'm terrified)
>I want to be a journalist or something. Maybe a lecturer or teacher. Not so sure
>At the moment I'm working on my A levels.
>Novelist: Joyce (yeah yeah fuck off). Poet: Donne

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 09:21:36 2011 No.1419474

I'm pretentious as fuck.

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Balliol College, Oxford—Comrade Tortoise here. Taking PPE (philosophy, politics and economics). Fuck Trinity College.
>What do you want to do with your life?
Be a journalist and writer.
>What are you doing with your life now?
Still at College: studying.
>Favorite author of all time?
Aldous Huxley . . . 'cause I'm a bro like that.

>>	engines vrôp vrôp Mon Jan 3 09:22:36 2011 No.1419476 >UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires), starting this year chemistry >enough money to buy food and as much free time as I can >working in web design/development (deal with it) >maybe JG Ballard. maybe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 09:23:36 2011 No.1419478 >>1419474 Lies.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 10:48:36 2011 No.1419606

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
No. Didn't get the grades, had a shitty attitude to formal education.
>What do you want to do with your life?
I don't know. I want to travel for as long as possible. This sounds naive.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
NEET, live with my parents, not even on jobseekers, I sit at home all day and read. I've read 250+ books in the last two years, aren't I cool. Currently waiting for the next TEFL course to open in February.
>Favorite author of all time?
Dead: Nabokov.
Living: Isak Dinesen or Cormac McCarthy.

>>1419206
Did you apply to Aberdeen? Glasgow? Edinburgh? What's your first choice?

Poke !CYPkLy.IFw Mon Jan 3 10:55:36 2011 No.1419616

>>1418725

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Yeah. I'm studying Hispanic Literature at the Universidad Veracruzana.

>What do you want to do with your life?
Get a PhD. Be damn good writer.

>What are you doing with your life right now?
On college vacations. Reading, writing, drinking beer and hanging out with my girlfriend.

>Favorite author of all time?
Roberto Bolaño

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 11:05:36 2011 No.1419631

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Community College
>What do you want to do with your life?
I want to be able to use heroin legally
>What are you doing with your life right now?
stagehand for the theater, writing some smalltime shit
>Favorite author of all time?
Jean Genet/Charles Dickens/Yukio Mishima

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 11:07:36 2011 No.1419635

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?

Yes, Complutense University of Madrid.

>What do you want to do with your life?

Dunno, I like the idea of teaching.

>What are you doing with your life right now?

Full time student. Also girlfriend.

>Favorite author of all time?

I dunno.. Dick?

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 11:07:36 2011 No.1419636

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
University isn't a big deal where I'm from, so no
>What do you want to do with your life?
Not sure yet, travel a bit, hopefully have an idea in the next few years
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Working in pubs
>Favorite author of all time?
Bryce Courtenay is the only one that comes to mind at the moment, can't say I have a favourite though.

>>	Poke !CYPkLy.IFw Mon Jan 3 11:09:36 2011 No.1419638 >>1419636 where are you from?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 11:09:36 2011 No.1419640 >>1419616 >Get a PhD. Be damn good writer. >Be damn good writer. Don't count on it.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 11:11:36 2011 No.1419641

I am pretty pretentious about literature. I listen to a podcast called Spine Breakers and I always am annoyed that they always talk about stuff like Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Just talk about Pynchon already uncultured swine. I realize this is a fault of mine, not theirs. I promise to eventually read American Gods. I'm a little pretentious about music, but not really. About film, not at all. I enjoyed Tron: Legacy and I love Star Wars

>yes
>I want to be doing some kind of writing
>going to college, posting on /lit/
>Borges

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 11:15:36 2011 No.1419656

>>1419638
Australia. Most kids ends up at TAFE to follow their career, There were only about 12 kids in my graduating year that ended up in Uni, I dropped out of TEE before it really got into anything because I realised that chances were the job I wanted couldn't be found through Uni, not to say I didn't want to go, just seemed like a waste of money if I wasn't going to use it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 11:16:36 2011 No.1419657 >>1419641 Just wondering, is your first name Scott

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 11:29:36 2011 No.1419701

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
I was at SUNY New Paltz for three years, then did a year at community college. I'm currently working on transferring to SUNY Stony Brook.
>What do you want to do with your life?
I have no idea. I just want to get the fuck out of school, then travel. Then I'll probably go to grad school to be a librarian. Or something.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Working at a library, going to school, writing, and reading Infinite Jest. It's a task.
>Favorite author of all time?
Tie between Faulkner and Morrison.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 12:00:36 2011 No.1419820 >>1419474 >>1419473 >>1419419 Brits confirmed for only justified pretentiousness on this board. Problem, amerifats?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 13:06:36 2011 No.1419997 File: 134 KB, 413x395, tehlol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is everybody talking, and nobody listening?

>>	None !21c/Lit/Yo Mon Jan 3 13:08:36 2011 No.1420001 >>1419997 What?

>>	OP Mon Jan 3 14:18:36 2011 No.1420175 Best American university I've seen thus far here has been Tufts. Though mind you, it's a damned good university.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 14:21:36 2011 No.1420181

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Attending; studying literature in a third world shithole
>What do you want to do with your life?
Pretentious filmmaker/writer/journalist
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Currently on holidays; that means, watching lots of films and reading in my spare time
>Favorite author of all time?
Kapuscinski

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 14:23:36 2011 No.1420184 Getting general-ed done at a Community College because it's cost effective. Teach, write. Studying. Open mics. Reading. Writing. Girlfriend. Marquez

Deep&Edgy !pSkjEcB9sQ Mon Jan 3 14:24:36 2011 No.1420186

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
ya
>What do you want to do with your life?
A life can't be accurately discussed in instrumental terminology
>What are you doing with your life right now?
A life can't be accurately discussed in instrumental terminology
>>Favorite author of all time?
I don't have favourites

thank u

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 14:24:36 2011 No.1420187 >>1419606 I applied to Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St, Andrews. Edinburgh is my first choice based on the fact it's the city I'd rather be in. Although St. Andrews is second due to it's prestige in the Arts and Humanities.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 14:29:36 2011 No.1420205

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Dartmouth College

>What do you want to do with your life?
Probably end up in law, preferably make enough money to do public service.

>What are you doing with your life right now?
Beginning the winter term.

>Favorite author of all time?
Couldn't choose.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 14:30:36 2011 No.1420208 >Syracuse University >Journalist or film-maker. Not really sure. >Being a student >Fitzgerald

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 14:33:36 2011 No.1420217

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Nope. Going to CC in CA at the moment.
>What do you want to do with your life?
I was thinking about pursuing biological studies for the longest time, but honestly I might default to being an English teacher or something in a similar vein.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Nothing at all. I'm unemployed and live with my parents. I have a girlfriend, so that's a plus. Once she moves out of her parents' we'll probably move in together. Hopefully, I'll have a job by then.
>Favorite author of all time?
Philip K. Dick

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 14:46:36 2011 No.1420238

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
College, and Georgian in Barrie, ON.
>What do you want to do with your life?
Graphic & web design, advertising and maybe write at some point.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Studying web design and development
>Favorite author of all time?
Murakami

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 15:19:36 2011 No.1420345

>Are you attending/have you attended university?If so, where?
University of Liverpool, English degree.
>What do you want to do with your life?
Finish BA, get PhD, write, write, write.
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Studying and trying not to let this CFS beat me.
>Favorite author of all time?
Tricky. Poetry wise it's Keats, Yeats or Eliot. Prose it's Waugh, Drama probably Kane or Middleton.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 15:26:36 2011 No.1420374

>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Univesidad Central de Venezuela

>What do you want to do with your life?
To become a clinical psychologist in the independent field, and write books about the subject from time to time, some fiction, even.

>What are you doing with your life right now?
I'm majoring in psychology, planning to double major with literature later in college, and I teach english on saturdays

>Favorite author of all time?
Albert Camus and Sigmund Freud

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 15:28:36 2011 No.1420379 currently attending SUNY Geneseo because I couldn't afford Bowdoin) go to grad school, do something in geochemistry. possibly vulcanology. relaxing a bit during break: hanging out, reading, etc I'm not really sure, to be honest.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 15:29:36 2011 No.1420388 >>1420208 My friend was thinking of going to Syracuse for film/screenwriting but decided on Hampshire instead. How do you like it?

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 15:35:36 2011 No.1420415

No, not yet. I'm only 15.
I guess I just want to avoid ending up with a boring wife in a boring house with a boring job and boring children. Just wanna make films/become an intellectual/something like that. I'd like to start a new movement in films or litterature.
Going to high school, reading books and watching lots of films.
Marquis de Sade, Sartre, Dostoevsky, etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 15:36:36 2011 No.1420423 - Hunter College. - Short story writer/novelist - Student - Salinger

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 16:10:36 2011 No.1420506
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>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?

Texas A&M University

>What do you want to do with your life?
Get a History/English degree, go teach in west texas and be a football coach

>What are you doing with your life right now?
Currently on break, so playing a lot of xbox, sleeping in, getting drunk, watching football bowl games, and reading excessively

>Favorite author of all time?
Heinlein

>>	madamepsychosis! !kP3mYPCIec Mon Jan 3 16:12:36 2011 No.1420512 >>1418725 not yet do maths a lot of maths david foster wallace

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:16:36 2011 No.1422504
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>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Yes, UMDCP Philosophy, moved to Cali and havent started back up.
>What do you want to do with your life?
Help fix the clusterfuck that is our educational system
>What are you doing with your life right now?
Becoming an incredibly efficient autodidact
>Favorite author of all time?
Chaung Tzu

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:34:36 2011 No.1422528 >University of Nebraska - Lincoln >Experience as much as I can without excessively harming myself or others. Career-wise? I'd like to own a bookstore or work in a library. >Working two jobs, in limbo between residences. >Dylan Thomas

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:35:36 2011 No.1422529

>>1419656

You're an idiot. Australia has the highest University gross enrollment ratio in the entire world. Don't just claim that your own experience is somehow representative of your area/region—If only 12 people from your graduating class went to Uni then you went to a school full of fucktards, and you were one of the dunces who didn't bother trying.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:39:36 2011 No.1422540 >>1422529 cool story bro. what's uni?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:39:36 2011 No.1422542 >>1419636 >Australia >University not a big deal LOLNO

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:41:36 2011 No.1422545 >>1422529 This. Australia and New Zealand love University so much. Only twelve? What fucking wop-wop shithole did you go to?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:44:36 2011 No.1422550 >>1419656 YOU'RE A FUCKWIT, YOU SAY HOW UNIVERSITY IS NOT IMPORTANT, AND YOU'RE WORKING IN A BAR. FAIL.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:44:36 2011 No.1422552 >>1422540 I believe its sea urchin at a sushi restaurant

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:49:36 2011 No.1422558 >>1422552 Oh cool thanks brosef.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 05:05:36 2011 No.1422586
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>Are you attending/have you attended university? If so, where?
Oxford, Brasenose
DPhil in irish-american poetry

>What do you want to do with your life?
read

>What are you doing with your life right now?
reading and fucking

>Favorite author of all time?
Orwell and Donne

>>	yartbx Tue Jan 4 05:14:36 2011 No.1422598 im too scared to be anything irl.....

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 05:15:36 2011 No.1422599 >>1422586 How's that bankrupcy going for you?

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