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Ah, I just shared this with some folks and got a positive reaction, so I thought I'd share the love. For those who haven't done it, classic hard-boiled crime fiction is really sexist. So for my creative writing, I did an exaggerated misogynistic hard-boiled detective who refers to the female...

You people frighten me. I did 8 for CW and 9 for the essay, and that's the fastest I've ever written, in anything. I almost caught up to that in ancient today, but not quite.

Anyone else do both Alexander as a personality and 4thC Greece To The Death Of Alexander as a period? 4thC Greece is interesting, but crazy-complex. Backstabbings galore. I was pretty nervous about that section. But then one of the two essay questions for it was along the lines of "explain...

I thought both questions were fairly straightforward. The creative writing was similar to last year's (I was terrified it'd be another crazy one like 'write an interview with a character from one of your set texts' or something), and the essay really let you come to your own conclusions. I used...