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From Wes to the Real World
Sarah Firshein graduated from Wes in 2004, English degree in hand. After making her way in the magazine industry from Connecticut to NYC, she’s now at the top of the masthead as editor of Curbed...
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Read…and then Submit!
Whenever I need a break from reading for class (which tends to be often) I love to browse through these websites, which offer short, insightful stories and articles. The best part is that even though...
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From Wes to the Real World: Edith Zimmerman
Edith Zimmerman ’05’s self-selected career highlights include partying with Chris Evans then writing about it for GQ, grilling an elevator expert about the paranormal for New York Magazine‘s...
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From Wes to the Real World: Liana Heitin
Liana Heitin ’04 left Wesleyan with a B.A. in English and is now the Associate Editor of Education Week Teacher. Read on to learn about what happened in-between and for some great advice for aspiring...
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Blogging for credit?
Are you prepared for writing in the real world? A couple of weekends back, the “Education Life” section of the New York Times featured an article about what they claim is a new phenomenon: teachers are...
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Some f*cking sage advice from Johnny Temple ’88
"I think the books I'm publishing are better than any music I was making" said Temple It’s probably not that unusual for Wes students, at some point after graduation, to renounce their indie-rock ways...
View ArticleConfessions of a Bad Student
A Writing Blog Series by Patrick, a former writing mentor Part One: Introduction My friends at Wesleyan all embodied that rare, inexplicable type I’ve never understood—the Good Student. They were able...
View ArticleWork Habits Don’t Change
Part Two of a series for the Writing Blog by Patrick, a former writing mentor I want to use this post to talk about that time where it all collapsed for me, and why. This is for two reasons: it’s a...
View ArticleLast Minute Work
This is the fourth post in a series for the Writing Blog by Patrick, a former writing mentor. It’s difficult for me to wake up to alarms anymore. This is because I’ve conditioned myself not to. I know...
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Reading as a Means to Writing: An Introduction
This is the first post in a series written for the Writing Blog by Ryan Sheldon ’13. I first conceived of this study of the relationship between reading and writing when I found I could not answer a...
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