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Category Archives: Graduate School

Red Ant House xoxox

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

So I’ve started my graduate writing workshop in Oshkosh. What I hadn’t realized was that it is a combined undergraduate/graduate class. Actually, there are only two graduate students in the class, including myself. The rest are all undergrads taking this as an Intro course. I suppose that it makes me a bit of a snob, […]

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What matters

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

You know something? One of my most secret truths is this: I am a bit egotistical with my writing. I’ll never be the prettiest, the smartest, the strongest, the thinnest, or the most clever, but damn it, I can write. In fact, I always secretly suspect that I’m one of the best writers out there. […]

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Try harder

Monday, March 17, 2003

I have made a decision about graduate school. Apparently, my whole grad school affair is filled with \”should haves\”. I should have applied to more colleges. I should have written something fresh and sparkling for my manuscripts rather than using things I wrote before because I am lazy and watched Bring It On for the […]

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Rejections, little and big

Thursday, March 6, 2003

I am not the girl who will be attending the University of Iowa’s graduate program. I got two thin letters yesterday, one from Iowa and one from Minnesota. Apparently, they had 740 applicants with 25 spots and 400 applicants with 13 spots, respectively. On the plus side, I’ve now got the autograph of a Pulitzer […]

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The beating of a raptor’s wings

Monday, December 16, 2002

I had to drive out to the University to have them put in paperwork to send my transcripts to various writing programs. Apparently, one of the program’s deadlines is this Friday, which completely sneaked up on me, despite my very organized method of applying to these schools and a separate page for each in my […]

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The one where I should have just played some Solitaire or something

Thursday, August 22, 2002

So last night, I was bored. And what do bored people do when they are home alone and have already watched all of their DVDs and they should be working on their grad school applications and researching schools but they really don’t because it just seems like a waste of time and they just found […]

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