Thursday, July 28, 2005
Balancing Pros and Cons
Things are getting strange, again.
One of the reasons I haven't been interested in Vanderbilt for Graduate School is because of the staggeringly painful lack of Creative Writing classes and, in my opinion, outdated approach to English in general. Enter Nancy Reisman, new author-in-residence for Vanderbilt's equally new MFA in creative writing.
Well, there went 2 more reasons.
Of course, their tuition is still $38,000 per year. And they're still in Nashville, somewhere Tiff definitely doesn't want to do her MA (not many dolphins around for her to study). And they still don't have a true Tech Writing MA. And I still have a little leftover distaste for the typical Vandy student. No, Vandy's cons still outweigh the pro's, but they're balancing it out enough for me to take a second look. Somehow they always manage to do that right when I'm ready to say "no way."
Sometimes I wish there weren't so many options. Then again, my job probably wouldn't exist if there weren't.
I need to swing by 43 things and update. They ought to show up on here now, the site admins were having some trouble with Blogger last week. Work's also catching up with me. It's hard to believe it's only 2 and a half weeks until I get back to Murray. There's a half dozen people I owe lunches (or at least evening coffee) before then. I hope I get to see them all. If half didn't hate the other half, it'd be easier. So it goes. ¶ 0 comments
One of the reasons I haven't been interested in Vanderbilt for Graduate School is because of the staggeringly painful lack of Creative Writing classes and, in my opinion, outdated approach to English in general. Enter Nancy Reisman, new author-in-residence for Vanderbilt's equally new MFA in creative writing.
Well, there went 2 more reasons.
Of course, their tuition is still $38,000 per year. And they're still in Nashville, somewhere Tiff definitely doesn't want to do her MA (not many dolphins around for her to study). And they still don't have a true Tech Writing MA. And I still have a little leftover distaste for the typical Vandy student. No, Vandy's cons still outweigh the pro's, but they're balancing it out enough for me to take a second look. Somehow they always manage to do that right when I'm ready to say "no way."
Sometimes I wish there weren't so many options. Then again, my job probably wouldn't exist if there weren't.
I need to swing by 43 things and update. They ought to show up on here now, the site admins were having some trouble with Blogger last week. Work's also catching up with me. It's hard to believe it's only 2 and a half weeks until I get back to Murray. There's a half dozen people I owe lunches (or at least evening coffee) before then. I hope I get to see them all. If half didn't hate the other half, it'd be easier. So it goes. ¶ 0 comments
