So yeah, I start university tomorrow. Mixed feelings, but hopefully I'll have a lot of free time (so I can finish this damn chapter, among other things).

Between breaking the ice with my peers, attending student events and nights out, and learning the layout of the city, I suppose I'll be quite busy this week, either way.

Most promisingly, studying at university level will hopefully allow me to surround myself with those that possess a similar attitude to - and aptitude for - learning.

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I'm taking a class on literary theory from a local university. It turned to say a very little about how to write (one short essay by Poe), a bit more about theories of how art works (Aristotle, Addison, Burke, and the New Critics), and still more about post-modern linguistics and theory. But half of the course is about politics which literary theorists today oppose (capitalism, patriarchy, and white hegemony).

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