In an alternate universe, I’m a Milton scholar. One of the things¹ that actually led to my not getting there was when I transferred schools and became a full En

In an alternate universe, I’m a Milton scholar. One of the things¹ that actually led to my not getting there was when I transferred schools and became a full English major instead of an English-Math double major. While I was the latter, I had registration priority at Pomona College as an English major even though I was enrolled up the street at Harvey Mudd. When I moved to Pitzer, I lost that priority and was bumped from the senior Milton seminar that I had hoped to be in. ⸻ 1. The other factor is my tendency to be a crappy student. Being more concerned about learning than grades (or even doing the expected work) is not a recipe for being able to get into a good humanities PhD program.