Where are you going to grad school?
11:46 p.m. - 2004-11-09
Well then, I didn�t make it to the gym this morning, but I did get a lot of reading done. I�m actually ahead for my borderlands class. Ha! Take that Mr. Fancy Syllabus!
I got hate from one of my classmates today. It was rather interesting. We were discussing this damn article for the class. We�re supposed to present on it next Thursday and so we had a little disagreement about whether we should break it down after it was read. I suggested after and she said, �no,� and then decided it would be a good idea. That was last week, today, they were all complaining how it was hard to understand blah blah blah, so I said I�d discuss the intro because I understood that the author was doing a psychoanalytical reading of the texts and the girl says, �Well, if you do the introduction, you should do the conclusion too because it�s not fair.�
So I reply by saying, �First of all, there is no conclusion, and second of all, there is a whole history of Chicana writing that I think would be worth mentioning. These women were writing a long, long time ago and were not being published because they were not men.�
What did she say? �Oh, yeah.�
That�s right biotch! It�s like she�s trying to shake my foundation, but she doesn�t know that I�m pretty well grounded and she�s not gonna knock me over. Because damn it, I know my Chicano/a writing! People I�ve talked to about this just tell me she�s intimidated by me. *shrugs*
Anyway, my meeting with Maria went well. We talked politics, grad school, politics, GRE, politics, class schedules, school politics, and about killing plants. I�m having dinner with her next Friday and she told me to bring a friend. I�m inviting Maria Teresa cuz I think it would be cool to have those two meet.
I think it�s also worth mentioning that when we finally started talking about grad school, she said, �So where are you going?�
�UTEP.�
�No, where are you going to grad school?�
�UTEP.�
�No, you need to look at UT if you�re doing Literature and Iowa if you want Creative Writing. Don�t go to UTEP. They�re program is too new.�
Maria convinced me to apply to Iowa and Dan the Man said he�d pay the application fees. It�s really cool that she believes in me so much. She read my personal statement and said that it was a great start and gave me a few suggestions that I knew she was going to give. She also told me that I�ve got the prose because my sentences are compelling and draw in the reader. Woohoo! Bonus point for the Gigamonster! Now, it�s just a matter of taking the fucking GRE.
I guess I better type up the rest of my homework. Goodnight ya'll.
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