So, lately I've been compiling a list of MFA programs that I'm interested in. There are fourteen traditional programs on my list. Five low-residency. To be honest, I'm probably going to scrap the idea of low-residency all together because the funding is so terrible. Low-residency=taking out loans and needing to keep working as I'm in school. As much as I would love to stay here and complete most of the program online, financially that's not so desirable. Traditional=probably being awarded an assistantship, having tuition waived and getting a stipend (at least at the schools on my list). So, yeah. We'll probably have to move and live in a different state for a few years...but totally worth it. It might be kind of fun to live somewhere else, temporarily. Jordan is all for it, as long as we don't move anywhere that's colder than Iowa (he wasn't too happy to hear that one of my top picks is in Michigan).
Even with forgetting about low-residency programs, I still have fourteen on my list. Not too thrilled about dropping $800 in application fees, though, so I'll probably narrow my list down a bit. I'm incredibly tempted to skip the ones that require the GRE...because I don't want to take it! Taking the ACT in high school was just awful, and I was really counting on never having to do anything similar in the future, ever. Obviously the most important part of all this MFA crap is making sure my writing sample is really good. I'm having a hard enough time with that--I don't need to add STUDYING for a stupid test to my list of things to do. There are six programs on my list that do not require the GRE. Is that a reasonable way of narrowing things down? Or should I just take the damn test, save up some money, and apply to all of them? I don't know!
In other news...it's 70 degrees out! Feels fabulous. Back to regular semi-cold April weather after today, though. Oh well. I'm hoping the warm weather will keep people OUT of the mall...out of Target, specifically. I hate busy Sundays afternoons. Speaking of, guess it's time to get ready for work. /sigh.
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