Mystery novelist Ruth Rendell once noted, 鈥淚 get a lot of letters from people. They say, 鈥業 want to be a writer. What should I do?鈥 I tell them to stop writing to me and get on with it.鈥 Excellent advice, up until the fifth week of sitting in front of a blank page, sans Great American Novel, sans miraculous epiphany, sans a single, writable thought.
You know what might help? Surrounding yourself with a vibrant community of international writers, professors, and classmates in a city that writers from all over the world have called home for centuries; roaming the neighborhoods where the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and F. Scott Fitzgerald drank and debated; eating pastries in the park where Simone de Beauvoir first met Jean-Paul Sartre; taking notes on the street where George Orwell worked as a dishwasher.
Interested? Welcome to The American University of Paris.
Since its founding 55 years ago, The American University of Paris has provided an American-style university education for degree-seeking students from around the globe. Renowned as an international center for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary teaching and learning, our liberal arts education in Paris shapes global citizens to be able to take their places as responsible actors in communities, civil societies, and countries around the world.
The American University of Paris is an urban institution centrally located in the seventh聽arrondissement聽of Paris, very near to the Eiffel Tower and the Seine. Like most urban European colleges and universities, the 国产三级片campus is a composite of its buildings, all located within close walking distance.
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