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Well, I sent off the official letter to Mizzou yesterday, stating that I will not be attending.  To be honest, none of the teaching or research positions they offered were ever of much interest to me–until yesterday, when it didn’t matter anymore.  There was a position running their radio program, Radio Adelante, which requires someone [...]

OK, so maybe I’m lying here by saying things have been updated.  But you, as the reader, can suffer vicariously through me, right?  That’s how empathy works, last I checked.  And if nothing else, I soak up pity like a tampon in a swimming pool. — Hello again Professor Yyyy, I am following up, again, [...]

Not that I’m in danger of winning a Pulitzer Prize or anything, but my final writing sample is what pushed me toward being a journalist.  Sure, I’d blogged for a few months about my experience living in Spain, but that was more for my friends and family.  This piece was the first time I had [...]

Coming up next…the second writing sample I mailed out to everybody.  This article was published last summer and details all the fun of bureaucracy in Spain.  Bureaucracy is bad in the U.S., but it’s artfully bad in Spain.  You get the picture.  It’s also a better showcase for my humor–so I like to think.  I [...]

Hello again world.   Well, I’ve been debating how to go about posting my writing samples without sacrificing relative anonymity.  The samples I submitted to all of the schools I applied to were from a magazine I’ve been writing for for about a year and a half.  The problem is my name is plastered all [...]

With all bitching aside, I did manage to get my application materials into Mizzou, and I did get accepted into their International program.   No need to rehash my career goals again–you can read them in other entries–but I didn’t feel like Mizzou’s program was necessarily in-line with what I want to accomplish.  Clearly, they’re [...]

Mizzou’s application was the most different from the three other schools I applied to.  While most schools do everything online, and I mean everything, Mizzou does not.  Instead, they’ve got this nice little form you have to print out and return.  In addition, and I found this out the hard way, they require everything, including [...]

I got an interesting email today from Mizzou.  To be honest, it’s a top-notch school, and the only things preventing me from going there and applying for as many assistantships and research positions as they offer are 1) having a two year program and 2) being in Missouri for two years.  In my eyes, Missouri [...]

What up world.  Here’s the body of the email I received from Mizzou on 3/6/09.  Since then, I’ve been bombarded with emails about teaching assistantships and research positions in the Graduate school.  Anyway, here’s what an acceptance letter looks like: ————————– Congratulations! You have been accepted to the graduate program of the School of Journalism [...]

As far as test scores go, I think I’m pretty competitive.  No, I’m not one of those people who could be in the Triple Nine Society, but I am a high-achiever.  To be honest, I find the nature of standardized tests to be somewhat arbitrary and unfair; essentially, they test your ability to take a test [...]