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List the titles of the required readings from academic courses that you enjoyed most during secondary/high school. (150 words or less)

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List the titles of the required readings from academic courses that you enjoyed most during secondary/high school. (150 words or less)

Sophocles’ Oedipus the King - Freud’s theory is a bit reductive. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince (read in French) - A somehow profound story about a space-traveling child and a talking fox. Tom Standage’s An Edible History of the World - Two of my favorite things: food and history. Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” - The closest thing to horror I will ever be assigned in school. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried - And I thought I loved Full Metal Jacket. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five - A time-traveling optometrist sounds exactly like my (literal) dream career. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible - Vintage McCarthyism. History really does repeat itself, I guess. William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar - Tragedy is not an appropriate descriptor for this rollercoaster of a play.

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