At this time tomorrow I’ll officially be on spring break. Yay! Of course, I’m getting my wisdom teeth out Friday, so that’s not something to look forward to, but hopefully it won’t take the whole week to heal. I’m looking forward to sleeping a lot and doing some reading (both for school and for fun) and maybe doing some work on my fanfiction. Of ( Read more... )

Well, I’ve officially been rejected from UNH. I kind of knew it was coming based on what some people had said on the MFA blog, but it’s still a disappointment. Well, so much for going to a full-residency program and having my own little apartment. I kind of knew it wouldn’t happen anyway; I wanted it too badly and it would have been too good to be ( Read more... )

Well, I finally mustered the courage to call Vermont today, and the lady was very nice. She said she’d extend the deadline for the deposit until March 22nd, and that if I still haven’t heard from all of my schools by then to call and they might be able to push it back even further. I was so afraid that they’d be really difficult about it, so I’m ( Read more... )

I hope everyone is well. I’m updating because I received my second rejection today-from Rutgers. Oh, well. It’s a bit of a letdown, but since finding out that Camden is a horrific city to live in (they were ranked one of the worst cities to live in, if not the worst city to live in, in the US by AOL fairly recently), I had decided  I wasn’t going ( Read more... )

Ugh, I’m having issues with my computer again-viruses, of course. Earlier tonight something popped up saying I had thirteen (or was it thirty?) viruses. When I tried to delete them it said I had to pay fifty dollars or something for some software. I then ran a different virus scan and I believe I was successful at deleting the viruses, because when ( Read more... )

I came back to my room after Literature of the Later Middle Ages ended to change out of my yoga/workout clothing and found out that I had received an email from Vermont College of Fine Arts saying that I had been accepted! I am so, so excited. I really didn’t think I would get in anywhere, and this feels especially good because of the likely ( Read more... )

Well, someone on the Speakeasy, the forum for Poet’s and Writer’s Magazine, called Iowa and they have finished notifying everyone who was accepted in creative nonfiction. Oh, well. I suppose the best I can hope for is the waitlist, not that it would make any difference because no one turns down Iowa, but it would make me feel pretty good and kind ( Read more... )

As I was leaving for therapy yesterday morning the phone rang. It was an undisclosed number, so I answered. After all, Iowa had begun notifying people by phone for creative nonfiction, so I thought it would be dumb to let the answering machine get it.

Me: Hello?

Woman: Is this Miss __?

Me: Yes. (My heart started beating a little faster, for if the ( Read more... )

Well, Iowa has apparently begun contacting applicants accepted into the creative nonfiction program; two people have posted acceptances on the Internet so far. Thus it begins, I guess. Now, you would think that no news (I have not been rejected and on my web page it still says that the decision is “in progress”), but that’s not the case with this ( Read more... )

Well, this definitely turned out to be the snowstorm that wasn’t.  Everyone was saying to prepare for this huge snowstorm and that classes were going to be canceled (and a lot of schools-UMass included, I believe-did cancel school!) and that the conditions would be terrible and that it would start last night, etc. It didn’t end up snowing until ( Read more... )