One of the best things about my Northwestern experience was being surrounded by smart, talented peers. One of the worst things about my Northwestern experience was being surrounded by smart, talented peers.
Fall 2002: At the start of my junior year, I sat down for my first class with the 14 other fiction-writing majors who’d been accepted into the creative writing program that year, feeling pretty full of myself. Despite having learned English as a second language, I’d earned a spot in this competitive major. I figured my book deal would arrive soon enough.
My fellow writing majors quickly disabused me of this notion, not through any malevolence on their part but simply through their skill. Week after week, I read their stories and marveled…
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