05/19/2006 (dd/mm/yyyy)
I graduated with an MA May 6, and I'm going to Nebraska in August. I'm one of two people in my graduating class to go onto a PhD. One undergrad is going to Kansas for linguistics
- Duke University -- Rejection 02/08/2006
- Vanderbilt University -- Rejection 03/13/2006
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- Rejection 03/17/2006
- Penn State -- Rejection + hilarious email snafu
- University of Illinois at Chicago -- Acceptance 02/17/2006
- Michigan State University -- Acceptance 02/02/2006
- University of Kansas -- Acceptance 02/04/2006
- University of Nebraska at Lincoln -- Acceptance 03/06/2006
- Saint Louis University -- Acceptance
- On the Road -- Jack Kerouac
- The Idiot -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy
- The French Lieutenant's Woman -- John Fowles
The Sound and the Fury -- William FaulknerHeart of Darkness(Norton Critical Edition) -- Joseph Conrad- Rule of the Bone -- Russel Banks
Moby Dick-- Herman MelvilleThe Odyssey-- Homer (translation by Fitzgerald)- Cry, the Beloved Country -- Alan Paton
- Leaves of Grass -- Walt Whitman
The Inferno-- Dante- Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut
- 1984 -- George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice-- Jane Austen- Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre-- Charolette BronteMiddlemarch -- George EliotRobinson Crusoe(Norton Critical Edition) -- Daniel Defoe- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Mark Twain (great illustrated version!)
- Bleak House (Norton Critical Edition) -- Charles Dickens
- Tristram Shandy (Norton Critical Edition) -- Laurence Sterne
- The Violent Bear It Away -- Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood-- Flannery O'ConnorTheir Eyes Were Watching God-- Zora Neale Hurston- Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
Frankenstein -- Mary ShelleyAdventures of Huckelberry Finn-- Mark TwainLight In August-- William Faulkner- As I Lay Dying -- William Faulkner
- A Farewell to Arms -- Ernest Hemingway
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead-- Tom StoppardThe Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne- The House of the Seven Gables -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Confidence-Man -- Herman Melville
- Mosses from an old Manse -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket -- Edgar Allen Poe
- Ulysses -- James Joyce
Beloved -- Toni MorrisonInstitutes of the Christian Religion -- John Calvin