Sittenfeld opened his essay by talking about the comfort he received from other prisoners on his second day in prison. He was in Bible study and cried, thinking about how much he missed his wife and ...

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The University of Oklahoma said Monday that the graduate teaching assistant who assigned a failing grade to a student for a psychology essay on gender stereotypes will “no longer have instructional ...

During my first year at a university, I lived in a single room in the dorm. The girls on my hall were fun, but I also needed my own space where I could do my homework and enjoy some solitude. Still, ...

Editor’s note: This is the fourth story in a collaborative series covering the state of Northwest college admissions in 2025. The first story in the series was published on Nov. 3. For some college ...

A University of Oklahoma student who received a failing grade for her essay about gender and societal expectations filed a complaint with the university, charging discrimination over her religious ...

On a typical Tuesday morning, I am in my English seminar class in Wheeler Hall, wearing my trusted dark tank top and light blue jeans combination to face the glaring Berkeley sun. The class is about ...

“Tell me about yourself.” It’s one of the most common and deceptively difficult interview questions. Many job seekers treat it like small talk, but it’s actually one of the most important moments in ...

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...

In 1974, after a brief stint at Ingenue, a magazine where she learned how poorly suited she was for working “under anyone’s thumb,” 25-year-old Kincaid began filing unsigned essays in The New Yorker’s ...

A recent study of ChatGPT’s use for writing essays does not paint a flattering picture of the tool. But some of the study’s findings have been misunderstood, says its lead author. When you purchase ...