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Why I am not a pessimist and people should stop saying that I am. Because I’m not. And, also, you will never succeed at anything, ever
Now, when I write stuff like yesterday’s post, people always say, “Oh, Rahul, you’re so pessimistic. You can’t succeed if you don’t try!” But I don’t think I am pessimistic at all. It’s just a fact. The vast, vast majority of people who want to become creative professionals are going to fail. And it’s not…
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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…