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April 28, 2003Grad school, baby!
You may sleep easy, citizens of Tokyo. The coming catastrophe has been averted.
Although I’m still waiting on the official paperwork, UCR notified me late last week that I’ve been accepted into their MFA program in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts. Starting next August or September, I’ll be back on the other side of the desk, combining the two loves of mine which so often have fought for supremacy. What’s more, UCR is offering me a College Fellowship Award, which definitely brightens my financial outlook for the next two years. The only thing better than continuing one’s education is continuing one’s education for free.
Graduate school will be quite an experience, especially after having taught for a few years. I’m sure I’ll appreciate the experience in a way I wouldn’t have had I gone straight through from undergrad to graduate degree, and I can’t imagine but that I’ll look at college professors through different eyes, having lived in their world—albeit at the high school level—for a while.
In other news, that 4,103 words of which I was so proud in my last journal entry ended up being the only writing done over Spring Break. My goal for tonight is to crank out at least 897 and make it an even 5,000. The Brea tour weekend of "Foreplay and More" went well, although, in having the requisite technology to stage my one-act the way it was written, I discovered that I actually preferred it with the changes I made to accommodate the North Hollywood performance space. Live and learn.
Posted by patrick at April 28, 2003 09:33 PM
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