<p>I had a class on it in ninth grade, and at first I thought it was boring at points, but then I began to really enjoy it, even with the pretty elementary analysis my class did of it. I’d really love to read it again in college. We studied it in conjunction to early American literature, and the whole subject block just really stuck with me, stood out among a lot of other English blocks. Our class even visited Mystic Seaport as a field trip in order to learn about whaling :)</p>
<p>On the subject of dorkdom, I usually use the word as a teasing, sometimes affectionate term for friends. One of my friends, for example, owns an “I heart dorks” t-shirt, which always cracks me up, mostly for its cuteness.</p>