In Rufi Thorpe’s (Liberal Arts, ’06) new essay What Writing a Novel Taught Me About Female Friendship, recently published in The Toast, she reflects about how she and her best friend first applied and got into Lang. Thorpe got into Lang when she was 16 without graduating, a GED or an SAT score.
Rufi explains how she and her best friend, S, “spent [their] lives tapping on things to see if they were hollow.” Did they actually need to go to high school? “Was everyone for sure positive [they] couldn’t travel alone through Europe?”
Thorpe questions what’s possible, and what we think is impossible only because society tells us so. What is easier, or more readily accepted by society isn’t always right. Thorpe takes the reader through a journey with her best friend S and explains that writing about female friendship isn’t cliche, it’s a universal theme, it’s a discussion of the human experience.
Read her essay in The Toast here:
