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Your name: Ali Madani

Your home town: Lawrenceville, Ga

Your major(s): Philosophy, English

Are you fluent in any language(s) other than English? I'm OK at Latin

What are your career plans? I plan to go to graduate school to earn a Phd and then teach at a University

What is your favorite book or author and why? The Stranger by Albert Camus. I can read it every year and it's still as great as the first time around.

What is your most frequent grammatical error? Overusing commas

What is your biggest grammatical pet peeve? Run-on sentences

What is your favorite word? Crapulence

What is your favorite procrastination method when you have a paper to write? To avoid procrastination - writing the paper in chunks. To embrace procrastination - cleaning/organizing everything I see.

Describe (in a short paragraph) a significant breakthrough in your development as a writer: As a Junior in high school, I realized that I hadn't been a particularly good writer. It took a more demanding teacher to criticize my writing for me to move beyond basic papers. This period was probably the breakthrough point in developing my writing skills.

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