Course Hero Was My Hero in 2020

2020 hasn’t been the best year for a lot of reasons. One thing that has kept me steady these last months is work. One project has stood out above the rest. In the previous six months, I have written over a dozen study guides for Course Hero, a website that helps high school and college students tackle challenging texts. Each assignment allowed me to learn new things, expand my horizons, and step away from a world that seemed bleaker by the day. Now, as the project winds down in its final month, I want to share my work. Each assignment was a unique journey. I hope I get to take more journeys like them in the coming year. Thank you, Course Hero!

Poetry

• “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

Fiction

• “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa

• “Selected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke” by Arthur C. Clarke

• The Immoralist by André Gide

• Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki

Nonfiction Books

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

• The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

• A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

• The McDonaldization of Society: Into the Digital Age by George Ritzer

• Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nonfiction Essays

• “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” by Sigmund Freud

• “Critique of the Gotha Program” by Karl Marx

• “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” by Karl Marx

• “W.H. Auden: A Memorial Address” by Stephen Spender

• Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace

• “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” by Oscar Wilde