{"id":1441,"date":"2005-09-21T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/21\/snafu_you\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T00:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:08:57","slug":"snafu_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/21\/snafu_you\/","title":{"rendered":"Snafu You"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time for me to start thinking about grad school applications again,<\/strong> since I still have a glimmer of hope that hasn\u2019t been crushed yet. (It\u2019s amazing how much mileage my morale got out of making it onto SVA<\/a>\u2019s waiting list this year.) Trying to get my act together, I\u2019ve been sending away for course catalogs of new possibilities, and calling places to whom I\u2019ve applied before to find out what I need to resubmit.<\/p>\n

Now, if you\u2019ve been following these adventures for a while (a sure indication that you\u2019re a relative, have a high tolerance for boredom, or both), you know that I moped a lot<\/a> when I didn\u2019t get in last time, so it\u2019s taken some pluck to give them a call again and set things in motion once more. I wanted to make sure they still had my transcripts and stuff on file, and whether anything I previously submitted would still count toward a new application. The very helpful lady on the phone pulled my file and said it was all in order, but I was free to resubmit anything I\u2019d like to update. While she was checking through the recommendations, though, she mentioned that there were only two of the manadatory three. It seems that my boss from my old job<\/a> never sent in her recommendation letter, which means my application never got a fair shot.<\/i> Good grief.<\/p>\n

OK, maybe the letter just got lost in the mail, but still…<\/p>\n

That pisses me off, but at least it lets me believe that it\u2019s less my fault and more someone else\u2019s, and so I feel a little more confident about applying again. And I\u2019m also reapplying to SVA, since I got as far as I did last time, and I\u2019m looking at some programs in England<\/a> and the Netherlands<\/a> that just teach typeface design, because I need to embrace my true geekitude once and for all.<\/p>\n

Going to conferences like TypeCon<\/a> or the AIGA conference<\/a> are always good for pulling me out of the day-to-day doldrums and reminding me just how passionate I am about all this stuff. Aside from the more pragmatic benefits of grad school (the pedigree will help my teaching career, and it\u2019ll give me access to bigger jobs and better connections, blah blah blah), I get giddy thinking about grad school as a way to totally immerse myself in design stuff for an extended period of time, and worry about my own goals and parameters and interests instead of whether a client likes blue or feels like taking a chance on something.<\/p>\n

By the way, if I get into a program this time, holler if you have an extra few tens of thousands of dollars lying around that you don’t need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time for me to start thinking about grad school applications again, since I still have a glimmer of hope that hasn\u2019t been crushed yet. (It\u2019s amazing how much mileage my morale got out of making it onto SVA\u2019s waiting list this year.) Trying to get my act together, I\u2019ve been sending away for course … Continue reading “Snafu You”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76972,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/76972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}