I kind of read the Odyssey in college.

In an effort to speed run community college to catch up after leaving the Art Institute my parents had me take a summer classes. Classes were from 8am - 11pm every day for 5 weeks leaving me time to work in the afternoons. I had managed to get through a government and math class doing this without issue the first summer. A bunch of my classmates from high school were there as well to take cheaper basic courses while on break from UT or A&M. But then one summer I took an English class. I figured I'd zoom through it just like the others because at the end of the day 80% of your grade depended on your final essay and that was my main play in college. I was not an English major and only needed a few of these basic English classes. This summer English class was World Literature 1... It was being taught by a professor who normally did full semester length classes and this was her first time attempting to cram everything into a summer course. We knew there would be a lot of reading because…