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Well, today is the day before I go on my big audition for NYU. Nervous? Well, yeah, I'm a bit nervous. Excited, a little bit of that too. To be honest, part of me really just wants to wake up and have it be Tuesday, when I'm flying out of Laguardia to SFO where I will meet my wonderful girlfriend that I haven't seen in six whole months and then spend the rest of my break in Berkeley with her. Not a bad spring break destination, no? I'm looking forward to it. NYU is my last shot for the time being at getting away from Harvard Extension, and into the life of a totally normal college student. But then again, if I really wanted to get away, wouldn't I be making more applications different places? I suppose I'm not, because I'm not so unhappy here. I mean, it's a mixed experience, Harvard Extension. The classes are great and the people are truly unique and interesting, but they meet in the evenings, and their all adults. You know part of me does worry that I'll get away and regret leaving. That did happen to one of my friends from Harvard Extension who was in a similar position. He went to Reed college in I think Oregon, one of those hippy dippy granola crunching berkenstock wearing places, and he liked it, but he's coming back, I guess he felt guilty about the expense and that it really wasn't any better academically than Harvard Extension, and I can believe that. If I do get in to NYU, which frankly who knows if that will happen, it will be strange to be in school with classes of regular kids, college students. I mean you really have to experience it to understand the discourse of a Harvard Extension class, you know, I mean the kinds of things these adults bring out of the subjects is on a different level than that of a regular college course, I believe. It'd be really interesting to do a study, comparing the dialogue in a Harvard Extension course, against that of an equivalent Harvard College course. Of course Harvard kids are generally speaking very smart, but being college kids, they don't have the same kind or scope of experience as the average Extension student. You know, I certainly have grown at the Extension school, in a way that may not have been possible else where, but who knows.
I guess I didn't mention this, but I was accepted as a degree candidate at the Extension school, so that's good news, if nothing else I can stay here for two more years and finish my degree. And I've gotten my way into the theater community here, and found a group of artists I feel like I can collaborate with on interesting and artistically worthwhile work, so that's good.
Well, maybe I'll update in another week, or two, or a month, or six months. I don't know! I'll see you when I see you, Livejournal.
I guess I didn't mention this, but I was accepted as a degree candidate at the Extension school, so that's good news, if nothing else I can stay here for two more years and finish my degree. And I've gotten my way into the theater community here, and found a group of artists I feel like I can collaborate with on interesting and artistically worthwhile work, so that's good.
Well, maybe I'll update in another week, or two, or a month, or six months. I don't know! I'll see you when I see you, Livejournal.