GRAD STUFF UPDATE

[kleenexwoman]

Since my Non-Western Lit class got canceled again today, I have been taking the time to look at grad programs.

WMU actually looks good, although half of their web pages are down, so I can't find much about funding or assistantships. Columbia in NY does too, but the application fee is twice that of most of the other schools (and I can't find anything about funding on their site either; pages aren't down, just no links). Sarah Lawrence looks fantastic, but...no funding? D: Columbia in Chicago has a two-year MFA in poetry but apparently not in fiction, but they do have a tuition waiver for the first year and possible grad student teaching positions. Indiana looks really amazing, but they only admit twelve students per year, holycrap. Art Institute of Chicago has an MFA in "Writing," which looks like it's largely focused on creative writing; Prof. Blake said that one of the girls I went to Poetry Collective with is going there and loves it, so there's that.

I'm looking at this thing right now; it's a NEOMFA, a program that's shared among four universities, all of which are less than an hour away from each other. Scheduling and driving seems like it would be a pain, but it'd mean being able to be in Kent with Seth, and it looks like a good program.

I need to get my shit together for actual graduation, too. Sigh.

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