The conundrum of high school

This week's blog takes you out into the metaphoric wasteland of high school. T.S Eliot wrote in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

"In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how shall I presume?"


What is paradoxical or metaphorical about your high school experience, or your experience as a teenager in the early 21st century? What do you "measure out [your] life with"?

Blogs are due on Aug. 31st.

Assignment #2 Icons

This week and all last week we've been looking at symbols, paradox and metaphor. The blog for this week is to write about an icon that you think pervades our lives. This blog is the first musing that will eventually become your first essay. If you start the blog and find that you don't have much to say about the chosen icon, you should probably choose another one. If you are having trouble writing much about it, perhaps you've chosen one that is too small. Choose a big one.

This post should be done by Monday night, August 27th.