Photo credit: Neil Hall, Glass Office Building London I’ve been a graduate student for three weeks, and have cried in my professor’s office once. I haven’t been here long enough to determine if this ratio is a success or not, but am continuing my market research nonetheless. Let me back up – Before I started… Continue reading Abandoning the ROI – From the Corporate World to the MFA Program
Image: Photo by Abby Breaking News: I figured out that graduate school is hard. At the point when this happened, I was facing around eleven of my classmates. I was to present an essay we read in my Contemporary African Lit. class. I had read this article maybe five times before I had a speech ready,… Continue reading At What Point is Self-Care Toxic?
Photo: Bryan Jones I was going to write a post about my first month at Michener, but since I've been getting a bunch of application-related questions from people on Draft, I thought it might be helpful to do an 'applying to MFAs' post. A version of this post appeared previously on my own blog, so… Continue reading On applying
Image: Lidyanne Aquino While I was applying to MFA poetry programs in late 2016- early 2017, I was simultaneously figuring out how to come out as non-binary. I was writing personal letters, bios, anything that described me, and they were slowly morphing into queer testimonies. I found that I was taking the application process a… Continue reading I Am Not My Personal Statement
You should show your actual writing to as many people as possible, getting all the advice you can wrangle out of them, before you spend hundreds of dollars applying for grad school. In this article I list specific venues for you to get critiques from other people.
