Back to Academia
I had my MFA orientation tonight. I had originally written a very long post all about it, but scrapped it. It was mostly about this one incident that rubbed me very much the wrong way, one fellow student who seems to think the entire program should bend around her needs and schedule, but I’ve decided this is not the place to air those gripes. I’m still not sure exactly what this blog IS for, but I know what I don’t want it to be. It’s really not necessary or appropriate for me to badmouth a stranger in public like I’m really really tempted to do here. So I’ll just say that I reserve my judgement on her for now, and we’ll see what happens from here.
As far as the program itself, I’m thrilled to have been accepted and I can’t wait for it to start. The coordinator of the fiction department wasn’t there tonight. He was stuck in the Boston airport due to bad weather. Too bad, because he’s the reason I chose this program and I was really looking forward to meeting him in person. Ah well. I’ll meet him in class next week, anyway.
Pretty much everyone seemed cool, and I think it’ll be a good group. It’s kind of awkward to have a room full of writers who don’t know each other, though, because a great many of us write because we aren’t comfortable talking. At least on some levels. Sometimes. Ok. Maybe not. But I’m shy and so were all the people around me tonight. A room of wallflowers, empty dancefloor. We’ll warm up once we get into workshop, though.
That sounds like my idea of a party, a room full of people who don’t really NEED to talk. I hate this party/meeting smalltalk kinda thing where everybody seems more important to themselves than the next person and they try to involve you into a conversation that nobody really cares about. I’d rather stand and watch…
Best is when total strangers ask you how you are, like they or I care?! Ohboy, seems you have struck a pet peeve of mine, sorry for ranting.
Posted by: Maus
Good luck, Cari! Have fun! Regale us with tales of awkward strangers who can’t write for toffey! No, you’re probably right not to do that sort of thing :-). But really, I’m so excited for you, and I hope it turns out to be everything you hope of it, and more. And that you write tons.
Posted by: marrije
That sounds like my idea of a party, a room full of people who don’t really NEED to talk. I hate this party/meeting smalltalk kinda thing where everybody seems more important to themselves than the next person and they try to involve you into a conversation that nobody really cares about. I’d rather stand and watch…
Best is when total strangers ask you how you are, like they or I care?! Ohboy, seems you have struck a pet peeve of mine, sorry for ranting.
Posted by: Maus
Good luck, Cari! Have fun! Regale us with tales of awkward strangers who can’t write for toffey! No, you’re probably right not to do that sort of thing :-). But really, I’m so excited for you, and I hope it turns out to be everything you hope of it, and more. And that you write tons.
Posted by: marrije