Class Musings . . .
Posted by kscott on March 15, 2007
I’m not sure exactly where Mr. Marceau wanted me to move his post to, so I thought I’d start a new blog of general class musings beginning with his, below . . . Kristin
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This was a really great week. Today was awesome…Rushdie and Lethem at the Chicago Public Library. I left amazed.
The Grad Student Reading was incredible. Something definitely worth aspiring to. For those that didn’t or couldn’t stay until the end, well, you missed out. What a closer.
Business Card printing was a fiasco at the local FedEx/Kinkos…never again. I left feeling like the world was a shit-hole and everything was an obstacle to my goals. I wasn’t about to fork out the $125+ they wanted for a minimum of 500 cards. Eat my ass, Corporate America.
The weather was a gorgeous tease this week. Glad I wore my stinky leather…it got to be the cold, unfriendly Chicago weather we all know and love this afternoon.
Networking. I DID get a few phone numbers, numbers I’ve wanted for a while but haven’t seen the people in a long time: Grads and Alumni. Connections are connections, I’ll take what I can get (for now).
I had my Info Interview and Portfolio Advising appt. w/ Joanna. Cute, smart and energetic. A pleasant meeting to say the least. Learned some of what I already knew, a few new things and details about industry information I was a little fuzzy on. I brought my Improved Frosted Turd (resume) with me and she thought it was passable. I need to put the stuff in Bullets, but other than that, I’m on the right track.
The events this week have been a real treat. I’m gonna miss this shit when I graduate…so, I guess I’ll put it off another year.
It’s late. Zzzzz-time.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:03 am
Hi. I don’t know where this should go or if anyone will see it here, but in light of being gone and having nothing worthwhile to blog about, I figured I could just ramble on about my exchange in Bath.
Their program is pretty much straight seminar, you know basic editing and workshopping with comments. It’s more about perfecting what you have than generating new work, so there was very little in-class writing and what there was wasn’t read aloud or thought about ever again.
The comments were very no-holds-barred, and for the most part, the students took them all really well.
I was impressed with the quality of writing, especially in the first and second year students. It was obvious to me that (although I didn’t notice books were assigned) they really enjoyed reading. That may sound obvious, but I’m constantly surprised by the amount of writers who don’t read.
What else..?