by the Warren Wilson MFA program.
I knew it as soon as I saw the thin, business-sized envelope. I knew it and I told Dave that good news never comes in No. 10 envelope.
I write this not because I feel particularly dejected, per se, but because I think it's important not only to write of my successes here but also my failures. It keeps me humble.
I was very interested in the Warren Wilson MFA program and had been quietly falling in love with the program through a slow and close reading of The Story Behind the Story, a collection of short stories by Warren Wilson faculty with appended short essays explaining how they had come to write the story they had written.
But on the flipside, I spent all of today in torturous deliberations about Antioch University vs. Vermont College, and I still haven't been able to write, think, talk, or pro-and-con list my way out of that dilemma, so in all honesty taking one good school out of the running will probably help, not hurt. I read through the entire long admissions acceptance packets those two schools had sent, and I read through the entire 196 pages of Hunger Mountain, Fall 2006, issue 9, the Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters. And still I wait to hear back from the last two schools.
I am a little sad but strangely not crushed. I am a little bit defeated but at the same time buoyant with the possibilities ahead for me and my writing. I'm in a really weird place. Forgive me.
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I totally know how you feel. I remember my first rejection letter. Like yours, it came on the heels of being accepted to a really great program (Vermont! Top 5 of the Low Res!!!). Even though I had already achieved something, it was a still a weird feeling to get that letter. I spent a few hours on my couch, not sad really, but feeling some kind of way about it.
All I have to say is, this is Warren Wilson's loss Mayumi. You will do amazing things at Vermont or Antioch (I'm pushing for VT---Antioch has had some weird issues going on at esp with the undergrad college, I don't know if it will seep its way into the grad programs).
Shoot. That sucks, and I hope you have better news when it comes to the remaining two schools. You'll write something amazing regardless.
Brave of you to embrace your unsuccesses! I usually just go bury mine in the back yard.
I feel your pain, having gone through it myself 2+ years ago.
I remember even being devestated by one particular rejection AFTER I had already decided that that particular program was not a good fit!
You will be fine no matter where you go and I've heard great things about Vermont.
good luck.
Dear Lisa,
Thank you for reading and for your encouraging comments.
Love your blog, btw. It's been in my browser's favorites. :) I forget how I stumbled across it in the first place, but I do enjoy it.
xoxoxoxo,
May in the Bay
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