broadcast outcast

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, [...]

Forbes jumped in on the party, banging out more info to make everyone feel better about the job outlook for journalists and those of us entering/graduating from grad programs in journalism in the near future.  Read up on it here: Journalism Bust, J-School Boom I can’t say they’re telling me anything I didn’t already know, [...]

So says this article on eduinreview.  Figures are probably in line with what I was thinking previously.  Now there’s some evidence to go along with my presumptions. According to the article, enrollment is up 38% at Columbia and 6% at NYU.  Hmm.  This speaks to the situation I currently find myself in: waitlisted at Columbia [...]

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 [...]

  …and they’re running outta you!  HA!   My last contact with NYU was on April 2nd, as documented that day from my post about emailing them.  It is now 9 days later, and I have no new information. Additionally, I re-emailed my local Rotary club about how we would work together in putting together my [...]

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 [...]

NYU’s application was my second dragon to slay; Columbia’s deadline was Dec. 15, while NYU’s priority deadline was Dec. 18.  I got my app in on time, but my GRE scores didn’t get there until about Dec. 30…though no one is in the office at that time.  The final deadline for NYU was Jan. 4, [...]

I consider my temperament to be cynically optimistic.  That being said…this news article made me certain I will not react strongly either way to my NYU admissions decision.  I’m not throwing a party, and I’m not jumping off a building. Combine that with UCSD’s mistake last week, and it just goes to show admissions offices [...]

…is a failure to communicate.  At least, NYU seems to be a bit slow. Given that Mizzou requires written notification of my intent to attend or not by April 15, I’m less than pleased with NYU’s slow-moving admissions process.  For a while, they’d moved up my ladder, but at present, they’ve been knocked down a [...]