BOOK REVIEW: Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare The university student

BOOK REVIEW: Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare

The university student is a strange creature, stuck in a curious limbo between adolescence and adulthood. It is said to be a time of great learning: you attend lectures on (hopefully) fascinating subjects, figure out how to pay an electricity bill, and do your own laundry. There is the pursuit of knowledge, the desire to evolve, a search for that elusive wisdom that all proper adults seem to possess… But you’re not an adult yet. Instead, you find yourself having water balloon fights outside the lecture hall and drunkenly debating the finer details of The Samurai Pizza Cats at a party while wearing a penguin suit you don’t remember putting on. This delicate balance between work and play, between newly-found responsibility and having fun, is exactly what Love’s Labour’s Lost is about.

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