September 14th, 2011 / 8:20 pm
 Events & Random

2.4 cents

MFA: 1. Time. 2. People who give a shit about writing. Any other expectations, fuckoff and good luck and rank and yelp and yelp back, cool. Finding people who give a shit about writing, difficult. Finding Time, dern near brain-boggling. Enjoy both. Seriously.

And don’t forget to write.

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12 Comments

  1. September 15th, 2011 / 1:43 am BoomersMustDie—

      My $0.02 = if you are enjoying yourself in a professional degree program then you are doing it wrong. 

  2. September 15th, 2011 / 3:19 am Dave—

      Since when is Poets & Writers a hostile, stubborn, divisive force in the writing world? Oh yeah, since they invited Seth on board.

  3. September 15th, 2011 / 3:59 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      My last job as a paralegal there was some kid who got hired because he went to Princeton. Problem was he studied dance in Princeton. Ended up getting fired three weeks later, but at least I get to say I worked with a guy who went to Princeton, y’know?

  4. September 15th, 2011 / 4:14 am Darby Larson—

      how’s that work with the ladies? “I worked with a guy who went to princeton, wink wink.”

  5. September 15th, 2011 / 4:27 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Let’s just say that Princeton specializes in cultivating more than one type of “brain.”

  6. September 15th, 2011 / 4:27 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Let’s just say that Princeton specializes in cultivating more than one type of “brain.”

  7. September 15th, 2011 / 4:39 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Jesus. The only way this joke could’ve actually been funny is if I started having a seizure immediately after I said it.

  8. September 15th, 2011 / 4:39 am Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Jesus. The only way this joke could’ve actually been funny is if I started having a seizure immediately after I said it.

  9. September 15th, 2011 / 10:08 am Laura Carter—

      Agreed. Time and space, new friends. 

  10. September 15th, 2011 / 11:39 am Leapsloth14—

      That’s why I said remember to write.

  11. September 15th, 2011 / 1:41 pm joe—

      The only time I managed to glean for myself in my brief stint was time I stole when I skipped some bullshit class. Maybe that’s why that program isn’t on that silly list.

  12. September 15th, 2011 / 4:46 pm Guestagain—

      P&W probably should have added 2 columns to that spreadsheet:
       
      1). Faculty Reputation – Low/Medium/High, although that’s telling rather than showing
       
      2). Likelihood you will end up sounding like the rest of MFA Nation – High/Guaranteed