I hate always being teased for ordering vanilla ice cream or buying a vanilla cake. No, vanilla is not plain. It is a flavor, and there is such thing as plain ice cream (nasty btw). If anything, chocolate is more plain than vanilla since literally everything can be chocolate.

EDIT: Wow didn’t expect so many people liked vanilla. It’s been brought to my attention that in some cases, vanilla actually is plain. Most of the time however, it is just called vanilla, and doesn’t actually have any vanilla flavoring, which doesn’t help vanilla’s reputation at all, so I’m referring specifically to vanilla flavored things.

I wish when I was in high school, books were considered an art form used to discover something about ourselves and the world, as opposed to being an assignment to be completed by Friday. This is just me though, that’s how I felt about it but i’m sure many students out there probably feel the same. Let me tell you, read those books. I’m currently a college senior, and only recently started reading for leisure. The emotions that these books evoke while i’m reading is truly amazing, to the point where I find myself lying the book on my chest and relishing the messages that just pop out of the page. Books are a tool used to deepen ourselves and change the way we see the world around us, the authors of the past have so many great insights that I wish I appreciated earlier in my academic and personal life. Just do yourself a favor and read your Faulkner, Twain, Huxley, Sinclair, etc.

EDIT: Hey guys, after reading many of your comments, I realized I may have come off a bit strong in pushing what’s assigned to us in school. However, that wasn’t truly my intention. What I more or less meant to say is you should give the assigned readings a chance, because we may often overlook some good pieces of literature. With that, “try to read your Faulkner, Twain, Huxley, and Sinclair.” Also, I have nothing wrong with spark-notes, I shouldn’t have made that title. Spark-notes is a wonderful resource that definitely helps us better understand some really difficult reading material, but it should be a supplement and if you’re really really not enjoying the book, just spark-note the dang thing!