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It's Lion Turtles all the way down ([personal profile] lettered) wrote2007-09-17 03:36 pm
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Help? If possible.

This year I am reapplying to grad school. I'm applying to all the schools to be admitted into two different programs: the Creative Writing MFA and the English MA. I feel like if I don't get into the former I probably have more of a chance with the latter. So far, the schools I'm applying to are:

Washington University in St Louis, University of Florida, University of Texas, New York University, University of Houston, Saint Mary's College of California.

I'm also looking into University of Michigan, Otis College of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, University of New Orleans, Emerson College, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of New Hampshire, Rutgers University, City College of New York, The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Syracuse University, Ohio State University, Chatham University, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Carolina, Vanderbuilt University, Goddard College, George Mason University, Hollins University, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, anywhere that does MFAs in Creative Writing in Alaska, University of New Brunswick, University of British Columbia anywhere that does MFAs in Creative Writing in Canada, University of East Anglia in the UK, anywhere that does MFAs in Creative Writing in any English speaking country such as the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, and English MA programs anywhere in Europe, particularly the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Poland, and English MA programs anywhere in the world, including Argentina, South Africa, India, China, Russia, and Egypt.

Um, so. The purpose of this post is to ask if anyone has any advice on any of these universities, any of these locations, any English MA programs, any Creative Writing MFA programs, any grad programs, getting into grad programs, writing portfolios, and stuff. I'm just trying to gather any info I can on the process of choosing and applying, as I have failed so spectacularly in the past.

So how 'bout that Buffy 6 comic?
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[identity profile] tkp.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, I had awful teachers in grade school. It sucked knowing more than them.

But I had the opposite problem as you in college. Like, I felt like the kids there were ...snobs. And most of them were rich and white a privileged and went to these ritzy private schools when they where in grade school. I didn't. I went to the school my mom teaches at, where sometimes my teachers barely spoke English, where *all* the classic lit reading I did was on my own, because in senior English the assigned reading was Harry Potter. (Which I still resent, even though it was then and there my HP love was founded, and I'm lovin' your HP icons btw. The Sorcerer's Stone, though, is NOT what Senior AP English students should be reading.)

So I got to college, and I got a bunch of people asking me stuff like, "How could you not know that?" and "how did you even get into this school?" and "I thought you were smart". But that I mean, is understandable. If you've had a good education it's weird when people around you haven't. But what I *really* hated was the cultural aspect. Like, you're déclassé or obviously unenlightened if you like Blockbuster movies, as opposed to indie films, or if you read fantasy, as opposed to Sarte, or if you don't follow politics and current events, or if you write fanfiction. Good grief.

Sorry for the rant. I really detested that aspect of college and should never talk about it.

HEE. Thanks so much--glad you like the fic!

[identity profile] globalfruitbat.livejournal.com 2007-09-18 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
I totally totally feel you. I went to elementary school on the 'rich' side of town -- but my mum taught on the 'wrong side of the tracks' until last Sept. and I went to the high school that her elementary school was the feeder school for. And I was lucky enough that that was the school that had the program I was in, because if I had gone to high school on the same side of town I had grown up on, well, I probably wouldn't be here. But! Also, I wouldn't have had the chances I did. And those pretentions that college students have drive me NUTS. I've been soooooo far outside the realm of 'cool' all my life that I just get all incoherent. My boyfriend and I like to say that we could never be hipster 'cause we care too much. We get excited! We enjoy our dorky, dorky, DORKY habits (Medival recreation! reading! gaming!...being excited about stuff!) and in this town...man. It's a nice town, but it's a wealthy town, and those kids who grew up here on hte 'rich' side are so awful. There is so much freakin' pretentiousness! Lululemon pants and Mod Night at Lucky Bar and not going to Evolution (the best club EVAR) 'cause the weirdos and the hard cores go there and wearing Smoking Lily clothes and being Vegan 'cause it's cool and ooo! Check out how indie I am and OH MY GOD.

I love fanfiction and Blockbuster movies. Also, come visit me! I keep trying to get [livejournal.com profile] southernbamgel to come and bring funnel cake -- she promised to marry me up here if I wrote her B/A pR0n in her comments. I did! She is now my bride!

HEY! COME TO OUR WEDDING!!!