It’s all academic, you know? That’s something that hit me over the head a couple of weeks ago. I had subconsciously come to the conclusion that somehow English and other right-brained courses were “superior” to math courses and such since they seemed to deal with “real-life” situations and emotions, not just doing exercises and (what seemed like to me) playing games with numbers. But in my poetry class, it finally hit me: It’s all academic. The poems we read might deal with lofty subjects such as history, war, love, violence, but in the end, it’s not going to do the world any more good than those number games we play in math class. Poems are word games, if you will (beyond their relevance to us). We have to choose to take anything we come across and make something out of it, to DO something. It’s all academic until you do something. *sound of Matt descending from soap box* :o)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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