About me - Kathleen Gilligan

I'm a college student living in New Jersey. I just finished up my BA at Rutgers University (majoring in English, minoring in both Writing and English Literature), and am continuing on to pursue my MA at Rutgers' Graduate school.  Previously I received

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Education > College Life Things college professors usually hate
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Things College Professors Usually Hate College professors can either be the best thing that ever happened to you, or they will be your worst nightmare. Here are a couple things that professors usually hate. 1. Lateness or absences/assumptions about missed work There are very few reasons for being late or missing class. Usual...

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Being mean
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I stumbled over a bag thrust into my path. I fell on my knees and I heard him laugh. It was something I never understood. Why hurt me? Just because he could? A boy who was once my friend, why, oh why did our friendship end? Another person is who he became. Of this change, who's to blame? Now, be his friend? I'd rather clean!...

Creative Writing > Flash Fiction Flash fiction: The baseball mitt
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The smells of plastic and leather wafted by as he walked down the aisle.  He never would have guessed how many different choices there were for cleats, helmets, bats, and mitts… or how expensive they were.  Nervously he fingered the money in his pocket.  The few dollars he had weren’t crisp or new...

Creative Writing > Flash Fiction Flash fiction: The dugout
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“Strike three,” he heard the umpire yell, as his bat swung and missed the ball entirely.  As if he hadn’t realized he was out with the thud of the ball being caught by the catcher.  He had struck out again!  His vision blurred and he begged tears not to come as he kicked up the dirt in frustr...

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Rumors
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She hears their whispers, and sees them stare. She pretends she doesn't even care. Every day a new rumor is started. Who could be so cruel hearted? Does she really deserve such a thing? Laughed at? The rude pointing? It starts so small- the little rumor. Then it grows to be as painful as a tumor. Maybe tomorrow she won't eve...

Education > College Life New college students: Tips for avoiding the campus blues
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How do you avoid the campus blues? For that matter, what are the campus blues? Reall, the campus blues are anything that makes you feel angry, tired, sad, and/or depressed. Anything can set you off and make you want to curl up on your bed, surrounded by mounds of fluffy pillows and fleece blankets and stay there. One day eve...

Education > College Life Tips for improving your social life in college
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Tips for improving your social life in college: Some students have never had a reason to want to improve their social life. They're pretty, popular, and having a great time. Well, this article is for the rest of us. We're the students who want to be having a good time, but don't know how to do that. Here are some tips for im...

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Waiting
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Through blizzards and lonely holidays, without a Christmas tree. Through rainshowers and endless nights, my roof leaking on me. Through dinners for one from the Chinese place down the street. Through snickers and ugly laughs from the people I thought cared. I'm waiting for the one. The perfect one, who will complete me.

Creative Writing > Flash Fiction Flash fiction: Soccer stories
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The goalie smacked his gloves on the ground before brushing the dirt off them.  He got up, angrily pounding on the post, the sound rattling the frame.  Despite leaping for the ball as it came rocketing toward him, it glanced off his fingers.  Now they were tied.  He clenched his fists, damp inside his glo...

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Demons
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milky moonlight spills through my open window with the cool evening air, a stream of filmy light a beacon in the flooding darkness, reflecting off the mirror, but also a pair of menacing eyes, shining just as brightly, waiting in the darkness as they have waited every night, glaring, staring eyes, piercing into my soul, atta...

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