All about the gushing
While our book only gives two pages and two pictures to Toulouse-Lautrec, my instructor gave us an hour worth of class time including a series of images of prostitutes that flipped by while she played Lady Marmalade on a boom box (The Pink/Christina/Lil' Kim version).
Have I told you how much I love grad school in the last ten minutes? I love grad school. Ya know what I hate? That I didn't do it ten years earlier.
The only part I'm not crazy about is the being broke part. That's not really surprising however. I budgeted for living expenses (though everything has gone up recently) but I didn't accurately gauge my expenses for supplies (plastic resins are 'spensive!) and new equipment nor was I expecting the tuition hike. (Thanks Governator!) The maximum amount of loans you can borrow has not changed much in ten years and certainly hasn't kept pace with inflation. I thought that all I'd need to do this year is buy a new computer monitor but I'm starting to realize that I'm gonna need some other equipment for installations that the school just doesn't have.
I'll also eventually need a Hi Def camcorder with decent lenses. That's gonna run me about $3500. I'd like it now but will really need it next year. I'd sell a kidney but mine are shot. I guess I'll just have to start hunting undergrads at night. I've been doing a bit of searching online to see if there are any grants available to schools for equipment upgrades but I've come up dry so far. I would be happy to fill out a grant application for the school. Big institutions have people on staff whose job is to write grants while the poor schools (that need the grants more) can't afford to staff those people.
Just 'cause I've never won a grant doesn't mean I won't try.
Have I told you how much I love grad school in the last ten minutes? I love grad school. Ya know what I hate? That I didn't do it ten years earlier.
The only part I'm not crazy about is the being broke part. That's not really surprising however. I budgeted for living expenses (though everything has gone up recently) but I didn't accurately gauge my expenses for supplies (plastic resins are 'spensive!) and new equipment nor was I expecting the tuition hike. (Thanks Governator!) The maximum amount of loans you can borrow has not changed much in ten years and certainly hasn't kept pace with inflation. I thought that all I'd need to do this year is buy a new computer monitor but I'm starting to realize that I'm gonna need some other equipment for installations that the school just doesn't have.
I'll also eventually need a Hi Def camcorder with decent lenses. That's gonna run me about $3500. I'd like it now but will really need it next year. I'd sell a kidney but mine are shot. I guess I'll just have to start hunting undergrads at night. I've been doing a bit of searching online to see if there are any grants available to schools for equipment upgrades but I've come up dry so far. I would be happy to fill out a grant application for the school. Big institutions have people on staff whose job is to write grants while the poor schools (that need the grants more) can't afford to staff those people.
Just 'cause I've never won a grant doesn't mean I won't try.