2K9">Grad School Hustle 2K9
Two years ago, I started this blog to sort of track my attempt to get into a photography MFA program. I think it was all the ruminating about education and my future, along with my patented and award-winning Grad School Scorecard, that attracted some readers from outside my immediate circle of friends, Amy Stein and Jen Bekman among them.
It’s pretty embarassing to think about all that now. The work I used was terrible and I basically didn’t know anything about anything and I don’t know why anybody gave me the time of day. No doubt I was eliminated in the very first cut from three out of five of the schools schools I applied to. I have no explanation for my performance at the other two given the circumstances. but I somehow got an interview at Columbia and was accepted to ICP-Bard. So all in all, it was a pretty encouraging result.
It’s probably still a little too early for me to be applying again, but I’m going to do it anyway. I have a infinitely more complex understanding of what it is I do, I’m developing a new body of work that I find exhilirating and I think I may be able to muster some pretty decent reccomendations depending on how things go in the next couple of months. And I’ve also reached the point where I feel like I need the knowledge.
So! It’s my extreme pleasure to present you with the hot new Grad School Scorecard, fully loaded for the 2009 academic year. Six programs, all competitve, and I’m still considering a couple others. What’s my safety school? Don’t have one. That’s just how I roll. It’s fucking Go Time, y’all.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Go, Greg, go!
October 5th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Fuck yes. Team Greg.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Aw, thanks girls.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I just wanted to congratulate you on the motivation needed to even attempt going to Grad School. I graduate undergrad in 3 weeks. Everyone keeps asking, “What are you going to do?” “What about grad school?” ” What about a job?”
I just tell them all I plan on doing in taking naps and listening to records. People don’t like that answer.
Not going to grad school the first time around was probably the best thing for ya. Fingers crossed for you this time, and hey, if it doesn’t work out, I will keep a spot in my bed open so you too can take a nap.