Thinking about graduate school? Then you should know what you’re getting into: The work load will be intense, the reading will be heavy, your peers will be as smart if not smarter than you and your professors will be intimidating, demanding and, at times, awe-inspiring. However, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to hear a very respected, very intelligent, very reserved professor of American Literature utter the following sentence:
“What [Walt] Whitman was saying is ‘The world looks like my balls.’”
No kidding, he really said it.
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