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Storyography

Sample Storyography Topics

Below are some suggested topics for your story. The list is far from exhaustive, so we hope it will inspire you rather than limit your imagination as you contemplate what you wish to say. Please feel free to invent other topics.

Education through the Decades

  • Stories your grandparents told you
  • A family Illini tradition

Best Years of Your Life

  • Heartbreaks
  • Saying goodbye
  • Fears of the first day, first test
  • Learning to live with a roommate
  • Dreams and reality—life after college
  • Teachers I remember
  • The most important lesson I learned
  • Love happens
  • Life milestones

Journeys

  • Returning from war
  • Fitting in, and not fitting in
  • Finding your path
  • Life, death, and illness
  • First to go to college
  • What I wish I told Mom or Dad

Place Matters

  • Favorite memories of the museums
  • First kiss or fond goodbyes
  • Memorials
  • What the Quad meant to you

Pursuit of Knowledge

  • Faculty: Lighting a spark
  • New knowledge
  • The greatest moments of your life
  • Memorable classroom moments

 

We reserve the right to reject all or part of a submission to Storyography if it’s determined to be but not limited to inflammatory, obscene, or abusive toward any group or individual.