How much education does a great author have?

August 9, 2012 Leave a comment

Some time in the middle of high school I, like most students, had to start transforming a literal world of possible futures into a concrete decision about what I was going to do for the rest of my life. Ultimately I settled studying engineering in college, choosing this over literature/creative writing in no small part because I figured that a formal education was more important to being employed as an engineer than it was to being an author. After all, most great authors had no formal post-secondary education. Right?

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Does the NFL Actually Have More Parity than MLB?

August 8, 2012 Leave a comment

Not really!

But you knew that already. The world hardly needs me to add to the thousands and thousands of articles dissecting the issue, but I’m writing one anyways because I’m pathologically narcissistic. Also, I frequently want to refer to the information I’m about to impart, but haven’t been able to find a clear resource on it, so I thought I’d make one, and then I thought I’d share it because, hey, that’s what the internet’s for.

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