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You might be thinking of University of Austin, the unaccredited liberal arts college. This website is run by the University of Texas at Austin.

Not a recommendation per se, but I recently finished Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr that has a rough tie in with Apuleius.

May I suggest the Veloway across the street from the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center?

Not to detract from them underpaying disabled people but I believe the picture is more complex than that. I used work with one Goodwill Industries to train their employees on computer repair. Most of these employees were staying in the job for 3-6 months and then moving on to more lucrative jobs. They were receiving on the job training and in some cases, job placement by Goodwill.

Yesterday I found a copy of The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone at Half Price Books and spent the evening enthralled. The beginning chapters cover the same ground in this article but she then goes on to relate these ideas with the modern media landscape. Highly recommended book and she cohosts a podcast generally about the same subject called 'On the Media' (also highly recommended by me).

This is the particular podcast[0] that quickly goes through post-revolution Haiti. Highly recommended podcast and the Haitian revolution was in particular really interesting. The author is currently in the middle of the Simon Bolivar's revolution in Venezuela.

[0] - http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2016/04/419-the-history-of...

A little late to comment on my part but all but a handful of my Venezuelan cousins have emigrated and ended up in Miami, Colombia and Argentina. And I know its not only them who have left. Venezuela has lost an entire generation of young professionals to their neighbors.

I took a similar path in education as you. It was my junior year, I was halfway through what should have been a 20ish page essay analyzing a 3 stanza poem when I began second guessing my decision. I switched majors to Political Science the following semester and found it was much easier to make arguments based on hard data rather than guessing at the artist's intentions.

Most of my colleagues in my English program went on to law school, which dovetails nicely with that analytical type of mind but as you say, endless dissection robs the work of what attracted me to it in the first place. After graduating, it took me a few years to get back into fiction (longer still to poetry).