Grad School Miscellany, Take 74
I jettisoned Penn because, well, I felt like it alright? I don’t care what kind of program they have, everyone I meet from Penn acts like an idiot. And then there were ten: Alabama, Oregon, Notre Dame and Illinois are all tucked into envelopes and waiting for one last rec before mailing. This leaves Michigan, Minnesota and Washington with some annoying hoop-jumping I am dragging my feet over because I feel that writing essays on self-motivation and commitment to diversity insult my intelligence and Purdue, Virginia and Wash U just because I haven’t gotten to them yet.
Despite the fact that I have somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 left to scrounge up and spend before January 2 (please don’t mention the miracle plane ticket I plan to buy for Awesome Holiday Redux at Anna and Forest’s) I am feeling pretty good about things right now.
nicole/jimmy's girl said,
November 30, 2008 at 11:08 pm
you go grrrrrl. you get your mfa on.
s said,
December 1, 2008 at 8:22 am
yeah, penn sucks. it’s cold there, too.
s said,
December 1, 2008 at 8:22 am
is that you’re everywhere-i’m-applying-to table?!?!?!
i remember when i had one of those.
anatomyofadress said,
December 1, 2008 at 3:43 pm
That is EXACTLY what that is!
s said,
December 2, 2008 at 3:57 am
oops, i misspelled “your” in my excitement.
anyway … AWESOME.
jskah said,
December 3, 2008 at 2:25 pm
omg i don’t have the internets for like a week & yr APPLYING now. !?!!
i wish i could support penn as it’s like virtually RIGHT HERE but also, um, i know what you mean. i’ve always had an aversion to purdue simply because of the name (i mean: purdue) + (recently) the stupidly skewed milk/calcium studies researchers there are doing. & i would probably use all sorts of bs like this to narrow down choices. either apply EVERYWHERE or snootily dismiss EVERYWHERE! or BOTH!
anatomyofadress said,
December 3, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Purdue sounds like Purdah to me, and that’s one of my favorite SP poems, and so on the list it stays! That’s MY kind of science! (also Marianne Boruch teaches there, which is more to the point, and I met a woman this summer who got her MFA there and was really pleased with the experience.)
jskah said,
December 3, 2008 at 8:25 pm
MY KIND OF REASONING
jskah said,
December 3, 2008 at 8:26 pm
er, the “purdah” part, not the totally wack parenthetical “relevant” bit.. pfft