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Where did that guy who ranted all the time go?

Bad news, I'm back. And my name's Mark for future reference. Been failing a degree by wasting ridiculous amounts of time doing stupid stuff. Two more projects to go, but I'll be posting more regularly now. Incidently, if anyone's got some good academic material on cyberpunk/steampunk novels or the journalism of jazz, holla. Don't ask-it's a liberal arts degree, you end up doing stupid stuff like this all the time. Mark

Graduate's Anonymous: My Name is Mark...

...and I'm an English student. Hi Mark. I don't know how it happened really. One minute I was a creatively inspired child prodigy burnout, next I'm writing essays on all the mentions of the word 'air' in Jane Eyre. What happened? How did I end up doing such a pointless degree? Was in the pub the other night (my source of all cultural knowledge.) Someone asked me after I told them what I did, "Oh, so you want to be a teacher then?" No. Not even if the choice is between that and being a fingernail pulling tester for some South American junta. Really, no, not if my life depended on it. "But teaching is a noble profession." No, teaching should be; there's a difference. It pays terribly and the children...ah, yeah them... I recall being at school and the horror I inflicted upon many teachers and I was far from the worst. My class managed to force the retirement of one old dear and cause another to hit the sick with 'stress related illness....