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September 8, 2009

Writing Your Way Out of College

One of my most vivid memories at the University of Missouri was of the strange grade that I received on an honors term paper. The English professor gave me a “B+ +” for the final paper in my existentialist literature course. When I saw that grade I was ticked off. What the heck, I wondered, was a B + +?...