Apologies for not writing a post last month. And this post is going to be fairly short. I've discovered I'm not much of a blogger (I should have guessed this because I was never much of a diarist either). Intramural baseball started up again and I got my first hit last week! Y'all I'm pretty… Continue reading Allow Me to Interrupt
You’ve been putting off writing this post. Admit it. You were hoping, by now, to have some idea of where you’d be going (or not) in the fall. But no such luck. You are still sitting here, waiting, with four could-be offers, four red-hot MAYBE’s, blinking on repeat in your brain. All this waiting has… Continue reading Mr. Right
Just more than a year ago, I was invited to – and attended – an open house at Stony Brook University's Manhattan campus to learn more about their MFA program. Just more than a week ago, I attended their 2015 open house, but this time as a first year student. Standing there chatting with the… Continue reading Making The Right (MFA) Choice
…Now what? You’re probably asking yourself: What is the value of my life if I can’t even get into a single MFA program? Why did I spend all that money on a hopeless dream? How will I transform the world and influence future generations if my words can’t even connect with admissions committees? How relevant… Continue reading SO YOU DIDN’T GET ACCEPTED INTO AN MFA PROGRAM…
Whew. Y'all I have survived the first two quarters of my MFA Years. I have to make it through Spring quarter and then from mid-June to October I am on one hella long summer break before I begin my second (and likely, final) year. So, what keeps me up at night? ***WARNING: WHINING AHEAD***: Being… Continue reading MFA Challenges
