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About
I’m Mike. I’m a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Waterloo.
I recently finished my Masters degree at the University of Toronto. Before that, I took a year off from school and worked at a small marketing firm in Ottawa, where I did web writing, web analytics, and search engine optimization. It was pretty neat, but sitting at home all day reading literary criticism, poems, and novels is more fun.
In my undergrad I wrote for and eventually edited Volume 42 of Golden Words Newspaper. It’s a comedy paper. We basically sat around on office from noon on Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday morning. We wrote stuff, hung out, and tried to put together 12-24 pages of content. We exchanged advertising space for pizza and Pakistani cuisine, which we then used to bait new writers and layout/graphics staff.
I’m starting this blog because I like writing things, and — aside from a few tongue-in-cheek haikus — Twitter’s 140 characters doesn’t always cut it.