January 17th, 2010 / 5:15 pm
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The School

At The School the creative writing undergrads will be allowed to write only about their hobby. Homework assignments will go like this: “Go home, and do your hobby.” Readings will include rule-books (if your hobby was boccie, etc) or instruction manuals (if your hobby was creating birdhouses out of Q Tips, etc). If you have no hobby, you are immediately expelled from The School.

Grad students in creative writing at The School will be allowed to write only about their job. Homework assignments will go like this: “Go home, and do your job.” Readings will include employment manuals (if your job was lifeguard at city pool, etc), local maps (if your job was delivering various types of paper, etc), or instructional material (if your job was to monitor the unloading of industrial chemicals from train tankers, etc). If you have no job, you are immediately expelled from The School.

Workshop will take place in the pond. The students will sink or swim, in silence.

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12 Comments

  1. dan

      that should be ball state’s mfa program.

  2. dan

      that should be ball state’s mfa program.

  3. rion

      Good thing I don’t go to The School…sounds like stifling place to be.

  4. rion

      Good thing I don’t go to The School…sounds like stifling place to be.

  5. Heather Christle
  6. Heather Christle
  7. .

      What if an undergraduate’s hobby is writing? What if a grad student’s job is teaching writing to undergraduates at The School? Are night classes available?

  8. .

      What if an undergraduate’s hobby is writing? What if a grad student’s job is teaching writing to undergraduates at The School? Are night classes available?

  9. Sean

      If the hobby or job is writing–expulsion.

  10. Sean

      If the hobby or job is writing–expulsion.

  11. Ryan Call

      haha

      ‘The class on walking shall proceed as follows:
      Anyone may enroll. To enroll, you need not do anything. You are enrolled.
      Anyone may dis-enroll. No one cares if you dis-enroll. It’s up to you.’

  12. Ryan Call

      haha

      ‘The class on walking shall proceed as follows:
      Anyone may enroll. To enroll, you need not do anything. You are enrolled.
      Anyone may dis-enroll. No one cares if you dis-enroll. It’s up to you.’