Grand Schemes
Well, after being mildly irked at my ma for pressuring me about grad school and generally stressing me out, I decided the reasonable thing to do would be to at least check out some options. The scary part is that I found something I really, really want to do, and think I may potentially be able to realize. There's a program at NYU's Insitute of Fine Arts, through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art that basically gives you a degree (Curatorial Certificate) saying you're capable of running museums. This is my Big Dream, and now I've discovered a way to make it happen. It just involves a fuckload of planning and the little issue of living in Grenwich Village for 4 years. Two questions arise: how the hell do you get a PhD while earning enough to live in NYC, and am I willing to leave Minneapolis behind? Because that's how it'd work. I'd need to apply for the Fall 2007 semester, due to my current loan situation. But I can't help being really, really excited at the prospect. Gah! It's completely insane to think about leaving Minneapolis before I've even left Oxford....but I have to get letters of recommendation from tutors here, so it's kind of forcing my life to condense itself into 5 1/2 years worth of considerations to ponder NOW. Huh. At any rate, it's majorly on my mind, and I can't help being energized by the feeling of having a new goal. Once again I see the lenghts I go to to keep myself interested and engaged in my brain. The other news, if it matters, is that if I don't get into the program I really want, then I'm not going to do it at all, and would thus be staying in Minneapolis. I absolutely cannot abide the idea of going through 4 more years of education, if I'm not directly pursuing something that I could devote my entire life to. It's either fabulous jetsetting curator or layabout 'writer' for me, baby. I'm fucking EXTREME.