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How Many Fireplaces is Too Many Fireplaces? A New Vision of Laird
Happy sixth week! Over the weekend, the editors got together and decided it was time to do something a little more on the impish side. We’ve just gotten back from…
Introducing the New English Majors
As our days get slowly sunnier in Northfield, we are excited to see faces new and old on our screens, in our classrooms in the Weitz, and someday soon, in…
The Recurring Debate Over Skipping Shakespeare
Happy Miscellany Monday! For this week’s post, we are talking about a frequent cause of controversy in English departments nationwide: whether or not Shakespeare courses should be a requirement to…
Chair Greg Hewett speaks on changes to the English Department
Happy Miscellany Monday! This week, we chatted with English Department Chair and creative writing professor Greg Hewett to hear about both immediate and long-term changes happening in the English department…
Reflecting on Irish Studies in Ireland
Over this snowy weekend, I sat down with Naomi Brim ’21 to talk about her experience in slightly more green Ireland over the summer of 2019. Naomi, a senior English…
Comps Queries
It is now almost mid-October at Carleton, and seniors are anxiously awaiting the decisions on our comps proposals. Some have had ideas forming since a class they took sophomore year,…
Welcome back to fall term at the Miscellany!
Hello again and welcome back, Second Laird community! Whether you are on campus reading Shakespeare right now, learning about narrative theory remotely, or reminiscing about your English major past, we…
How can being an English major help us right now?
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder (occurring just 40 miles from our campus), national protests for racial justice, and the continued devastation of COVID-19, we at The Second Laird…
Laird Nostalgia
In this COVID-19 era, Laird, our favorite campus building and second home, sits mostly empty. No students bustle through its hallways, wait patiently for their turn in office hours, or…
Second Laird Community Collective Poem
How do you put this term into words? This is a question the Miscellany grappled with this week. While we are stuck at home this spring, we have all had…
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