Woman of Letters

Tag: grad school

  • Why you should never, ever get an MFA

              After semi-randomly going on a midnight rampage and reading a whole bunch of articles about why graduate school (in the Humanities) is a terrible idea, I decided to codify some of my pithiest thoughts on the subject. I’ve sometimes been shocked to hear my friends tell me that their English professors…

  • I need about 35-40 more hours in a week

    For the past six months or so, during the intermittent periods when I am actually in D.C. my schedule has been to get home circa 7 PM on weekdays, and generally spend the hours from 7 PM to 10-11 reading and eating, and then from 11 PM to 2 PM or so trying to write.…

  • Yay, I’m [somewhat] desirable.

    Just got an email telling me I am on the waitlist at Syracuse, which is my first concrete news of any kind during this admissions process. I’m not too broken up about not getting in. I went in with absolutely no idea of what my odds could possibly be,  so it’s nice to hear that…