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Nov. 4th, 2009 10:17 am
Oh good grief...
During my prep, I'm trying to write my Statement of Purpose for grad school. I hate this kind of thing.
I ended up selecting the Literature option. Creative Writing wouldn't work, because I know for a fact I'd want to kill at least half of any class in writing I took, and the attitude of the professors of most college creative writing programs towards the genre I prefer to work in would make me murderous. Few things irritate me so much as utterly pretentious fiction, and in my experience, creative writing teachers love that shit.
Composition seemed a good idea, as it focuses on the teaching of writing... but composition theory bores me. While it might be most useful from the perspective of job preparation, it just doesn't sound like I could devote my full attention to it.
Literature, now.... I live for that. It'll be hard, especially as I'll have to either write a full-on Thesis or take a grueling four-hour exam. But dammit, I love me the Literary Theory and Critical Theory. I love analysis of text and finding meaning in works of literary art. In short, it will make me happy to take the classes, read the bazillion books on the Examination reading list (or work my fingers to the bone writing a thesis). So Literature it is.
And, I've been thinking... while it may not happen, and my life will be ok if it doesn't... maybe I WILL go learn French, or increase my Japanese, and maybe I will go back and get a PhD in the next ten years. Who knows? It's not likely, but it is possible.
Now if I can just get that Statement of Purpose written. I have three weeks. I ought to be able to knock it out and polish it up by then.
I ended up selecting the Literature option. Creative Writing wouldn't work, because I know for a fact I'd want to kill at least half of any class in writing I took, and the attitude of the professors of most college creative writing programs towards the genre I prefer to work in would make me murderous. Few things irritate me so much as utterly pretentious fiction, and in my experience, creative writing teachers love that shit.
Composition seemed a good idea, as it focuses on the teaching of writing... but composition theory bores me. While it might be most useful from the perspective of job preparation, it just doesn't sound like I could devote my full attention to it.
Literature, now.... I live for that. It'll be hard, especially as I'll have to either write a full-on Thesis or take a grueling four-hour exam. But dammit, I love me the Literary Theory and Critical Theory. I love analysis of text and finding meaning in works of literary art. In short, it will make me happy to take the classes, read the bazillion books on the Examination reading list (or work my fingers to the bone writing a thesis). So Literature it is.
And, I've been thinking... while it may not happen, and my life will be ok if it doesn't... maybe I WILL go learn French, or increase my Japanese, and maybe I will go back and get a PhD in the next ten years. Who knows? It's not likely, but it is possible.
Now if I can just get that Statement of Purpose written. I have three weeks. I ought to be able to knock it out and polish it up by then.