Tag: feminist
How Far Have We Really Come? Part 1
by admin on Aug.27, 2009, under Uncategorized
It’s three in the afternoon on a steamy Wednesday near the end of April, and I’m sitting in my honors seminar on Islamic theory. I’m weary from being up half the previous night studying for an exam, and I’m not looking forward to the three papers that I have due before the end of the month. Final exams loom over the horizon, not to mention the fact that I have a week to pack up a year’s worth of clothing, books, papers and bedding only to unpack them again in my summer apartment, just three blocks down. This is not my favorite class, and if it were not the case that I had already missed three—the maximum absences allowed this semester—I wouldn’t be here.
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