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What unfinished business might we find buried under yellowed textbooks and old homework assignments? What exactly were you supposed to take away from that random gen-ed liberal arts course you slept through your freshman year? Besides, will you ever be a student again once you’ve walked across the stage at graduation? Sorting through our Junk Drawers can produce useful answers to the seemingly non-academic questions that we deal with in day-to-day life. An education should not just be a pathway toward a job; it is a lifelong endeavor to be more ethical people, better friends and partners, engaged citizens, and thoughtful online users. 

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Through various case studies in pop culture and politics, “The Junk Drawer” makes a case for “useless” education and its role in helping us make sense of the current moment. As a Political Science and History major at Hunter, Priscilla is interested in recentering the humanities as valuable tools for improving ourselves and our society.