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Or should I forget about my obsession with narrative theory for more professional degrees, like public policy or Nutrition(!)?

xpost - shhh!

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link

here's where i'm applying (master's in urban planning/land use): cal poly san luis obispo, nyu, rutgers, u of wisconsin (milwaukee), u of michigan, ucla. cal poly slo is in the lead -- i've heard great things about their program, mostly that it's very hands-on (not just hippie-dippie theory) and their grads GET JOBS. the others are in no particular order.

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

what's a letter of recommendation service?

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I.e. a service that stores and sends out letters of rec. and sundry supplemental material for you so that everything looks official, which I was told looks quite a lot better than sending them out yourself.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought you went to Chicago?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 7 November 2005 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Please tell me they really call it "funology" and not something boring like "media culture sociology".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 7 November 2005 07:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Chicago was a 1 year program.

Alas, "funology" is my neologism.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you feel like the MAPH was useful for you, Lee? I know someone who just started that program this fall.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Absolutely! It was like eating my vegebobbles -- I complained and whined and pulled faces for 8 months, but in the end, I wrote a smooth and shiny thesis, and I also think genuinely that it made me smarter/better read.

I highly recommended taking the Academic/Professional Writing course. Improved my writing tenfold, and possibly it taught me finally how to read non-fiction prose.

Not that you'd suspect any improvement from that last sentence.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Should I forget it all, go back to undergrad to do something more analytic like math?

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Get a real job, hippie.

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Math = analytic = REAL JOB.

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

you could join one of the big math firms!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

you could grade tests for ETS!

― bird-person-person (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

You mean like Google?

― Wolfcastleee (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Duke: no
UCLA: no

I have the phear that I will have the dreaded giant-sized sombrero and go 0 for 7.

― c(''c) (Leee), Friday, 3 February 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

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