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For those concentrating in Comparative Literature, being asked about plans for after graduation now constitutes a micro-aggression.
“This kind of violent language where career-advantaged students flaunt their privilege by asking about post-grad plans is unacceptable at a modern University such as Brown,” stated Kasey Smith-Cotrell ’24 who has loose plans to travel abroad or film a documentary after graduating this spring. “It is incredibly harmful for my mental, emotional, spiritual, social, physical, educational, and semiotic health for people to insinuate that I should have a concrete plan for what I’m doing with my life once I leave this school.”
“The inability of recruiters to critically examine their discursive practices and structural perpetuation of hegemonic norms fundamentally kills diasporic and class consciousness both in our modern society and globally,” continued Smith-Cotrell, browsing through the careers page of a vegan poetry journal. “The existing paradigm of the academy as vocational training is outdated and outmoded. So yeah, I guess I would characterize my impending unemployment as an act of rebellion.”
At press time, Smith-Cotrell announced plans to move to New York City and inherit a shit-ton of money in their 30s.
