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    Loric got a reaction from deactivated in Oh god, please help/judge me (UC Berkeley Personal Statement)   
    You assume those who have done it before are willing to discuss the matter. Sometimes the elite clubs want to stay that way. Everest is ripe with teams who have tried to sabotage each other. Not to mention the locals have gotten plenty of press lately for endangering and threatening the lives of climbers who weren't willing to pay their blackmail/ransom.
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    Loric got a reaction from margota in How Did You Deal with the Stress/Anxiety/Sadness of Moving to a New State?   
    I've found that people from CA have a tougher time moving out than most of the rest of the states. My experience with the socal mentality has been that it's almost as if the world ends at Las Vegas and then there's a huge jump to New York and nothing in between.
     
    Your mental map of the world will open up, a lot. And things are done differently - very differently. CA is, for all intents and purposes, a nanny state compared to most of the US. There are few warning labels that you'll get cancer and there's not gas pump shrouds so you don't inhale the fumes either.
     
    I liken it to how when people from the US travel abroad and then note at a tourist attraction how "dangerous" things are with no fences, barriers, etc.. at a cliff. You can just up and fall out of the leaning tower of piza for example. CA is even more bubble wrapped than the rest of the US, so keep that in mind.
     
    As for coping - aside from being sure not to use spray paint indoors because when purchased outside of CA it contains much harsher chemicals - I think you just need to be open to new experiences. The culture will be a bit.. different..
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    Loric got a reaction from 01848p in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    That's what i said and people got all snippy.
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    Loric got a reaction from norellehannah in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'm going to hastily generalize that whatever involvement you thought you had in theatre was trivial, laughable, and at best superficial.
     
    And in contrast if you'd like to go check out the books I've written from your school's library I can PM you the ISBN's.
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    Loric got a reaction from johnallen in If I knew then what I know now...   
    For non-traditional students:
     
    Get your crap straight with any undergrad or former masters programs in regards to transcripts, etc... before putting in any kind of application with your intended programs. I had no idea my transcript was janky or that I'd be calling random department and having to send them proof I didn't steal their keys to get my transcript released.
     
    That has royally screwed up my intended timeline ("We didn't get your fax." "We didn't get your certified mail we signed for." "Oh, our secretary is out with the flu.. for a month." "No one has the password for that system, they're all in Egypt counting sand, try calling when they get back - when? We don't know!" "What, you think anyone here actually does work?!?!")
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    Loric got a reaction from klcrawfo in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Actually in English you talk about Shakespeare in the present tense because you're discussing an active analysis of the text and the relationship between the reader and the attempt to convey meaning. Which really is a bit silly because Shakespeare wrote plays.. or rather, his plays weren't even written down at first. They were simply performed. Later they were scribbled down.. so the manner of conveyance (which dictates the meaning) is often entirely left out of literary analysis of his work. Bad lit major, bad bad lit majors! *newspaper across nose* Stop trying to make theater into literature!
     
    And it was said by a character in a play.. it's not Shakespeare's voice, his opinion, etc.. Just so we're clear.
     
    But why bring this trivial difference of opinion up? Because it illustrates that different fields, departments, etc.. have different ways of seeing things. A lit department would probably be fine with such statements, but anyone who has studied Shakespeare as theater academically is not going to let that slide. The stripping down of scripts into mere words on a page is a sore point for most theater practitioners. It's generally seen as the murder of an artform and a contributing factor in the decline of public performance.
     
    So be careful of even your most innocuous statements.. though the OP would likely not be happy in a theater program who believed such things. Thus a rejection would be a favor, despite the desire for acceptance.
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    Loric got a reaction from historygeek in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'll hand you tubes of paint.
     
    Now go on, tell me how you know ALL ABOUT Picasso and Monet and Manet.
     
    C'mon, from the tubes of paint. Or better yet, an account of seeing their paintings in a museum from several centuries ago that tries to explain the experience to you. C'mon, tell me how you're an expert.
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    Loric got a reaction from historygeek in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    The Kings Men wrote/published the first folio. Otherwise all there was were the foul papers which were used to produce the cue scripting.
     
    What you read today as "Shakespeare" in literature is a complete fabrication. No such written thing existed when the plays were performed.. and they were created to be performed. Acting as if the literary analysis divorced from the performance has any validity is just academic masturbation.
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    Loric got a reaction from historygeek in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Ugh.. Just stop talking until you take a theater history class or at least google it.
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    Loric got a reaction from DangerDave in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'm going to hastily generalize that whatever involvement you thought you had in theatre was trivial, laughable, and at best superficial.
     
    And in contrast if you'd like to go check out the books I've written from your school's library I can PM you the ISBN's.
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    Loric got a reaction from historygeek in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Actually in English you talk about Shakespeare in the present tense because you're discussing an active analysis of the text and the relationship between the reader and the attempt to convey meaning. Which really is a bit silly because Shakespeare wrote plays.. or rather, his plays weren't even written down at first. They were simply performed. Later they were scribbled down.. so the manner of conveyance (which dictates the meaning) is often entirely left out of literary analysis of his work. Bad lit major, bad bad lit majors! *newspaper across nose* Stop trying to make theater into literature!
     
    And it was said by a character in a play.. it's not Shakespeare's voice, his opinion, etc.. Just so we're clear.
     
    But why bring this trivial difference of opinion up? Because it illustrates that different fields, departments, etc.. have different ways of seeing things. A lit department would probably be fine with such statements, but anyone who has studied Shakespeare as theater academically is not going to let that slide. The stripping down of scripts into mere words on a page is a sore point for most theater practitioners. It's generally seen as the murder of an artform and a contributing factor in the decline of public performance.
     
    So be careful of even your most innocuous statements.. though the OP would likely not be happy in a theater program who believed such things. Thus a rejection would be a favor, despite the desire for acceptance.
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    Loric got a reaction from KillerWingfield in Anyone have any good advice for URTA???   
    Get your talking points and attire together. Pack a show bible along with resume, etc.

    Once you know the details of your interviews map out the hotels. If I recall correctly the SM folks go from hotel to hotel for appointments.

    Reach out to any program you might be interested in. You might get added to their list just by introducing yourself.

    You're what , Chicago? It's going to be cold. Be ready with professional attire and layers. Inside it's ghastly hot once you've been outside.

    Look at schools not attending URTA too. URTA is not the be all end all - only a small group gets their position via URTA.

    My experience: designer who showed at URTA and was selected for interviews all day, to the point of having to "group" interview schools because I ran out of time slots.
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    Loric got a reaction from maybelostinschool in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Ugh.. Just stop talking until you take a theater history class or at least google it.
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    Loric got a reaction from 01848p in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'm going to hastily generalize that whatever involvement you thought you had in theatre was trivial, laughable, and at best superficial.
     
    And in contrast if you'd like to go check out the books I've written from your school's library I can PM you the ISBN's.
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    Loric got a reaction from Bayesian1701 in Sharing a hotel room with significant other   
    Anywhere that puts me up with someone else without telling me explicitly first gets me walking out the door, them paying for it, and me talking shit about them to every person I can find.
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    Loric got a reaction from JessicaLange in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'm going to hastily generalize that whatever involvement you thought you had in theatre was trivial, laughable, and at best superficial.
     
    And in contrast if you'd like to go check out the books I've written from your school's library I can PM you the ISBN's.
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    Loric got a reaction from sarah9 in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'm going to hastily generalize that whatever involvement you thought you had in theatre was trivial, laughable, and at best superficial.
     
    And in contrast if you'd like to go check out the books I've written from your school's library I can PM you the ISBN's.
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    Loric got a reaction from plainblacktights in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    The Kings Men wrote/published the first folio. Otherwise all there was were the foul papers which were used to produce the cue scripting.
     
    What you read today as "Shakespeare" in literature is a complete fabrication. No such written thing existed when the plays were performed.. and they were created to be performed. Acting as if the literary analysis divorced from the performance has any validity is just academic masturbation.
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    Loric got a reaction from JessicaLange in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Ugh.. Just stop talking until you take a theater history class or at least google it.
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    Loric got a reaction from darth_vader123 in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'm going to hastily generalize that whatever involvement you thought you had in theatre was trivial, laughable, and at best superficial.
     
    And in contrast if you'd like to go check out the books I've written from your school's library I can PM you the ISBN's.
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    Loric got a reaction from zelliott in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Fine, if you go around insisting we view great music and orchestrations as visual art with dots on lines. Cuz that's what it is and what explains it, right?
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    Loric got a reaction from zelliott in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Well that's part of the whole point of why I mentioned this.. You're going to run into very well educated people who might not share your beleifs, or rather, become very offended when you offhandedly remark about something that is not your area of expertise.
     
    Same SOP in front of a literature prof.. probably ok.. if it passes the theater history or script analysis professor (who are often recruited to read applications of the english dept, btw) you're going to royally piss them off.
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    Loric got a reaction from 1463134 in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    Fine, if you go around insisting we view great music and orchestrations as visual art with dots on lines. Cuz that's what it is and what explains it, right?
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    Loric got a reaction from JessicaLange in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    I'll hand you tubes of paint.
     
    Now go on, tell me how you know ALL ABOUT Picasso and Monet and Manet.
     
    C'mon, from the tubes of paint. Or better yet, an account of seeing their paintings in a museum from several centuries ago that tries to explain the experience to you. C'mon, tell me how you're an expert.
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    Loric got a reaction from JessicaLange in Some Advice on Writing an SOP   
    The Kings Men wrote/published the first folio. Otherwise all there was were the foul papers which were used to produce the cue scripting.
     
    What you read today as "Shakespeare" in literature is a complete fabrication. No such written thing existed when the plays were performed.. and they were created to be performed. Acting as if the literary analysis divorced from the performance has any validity is just academic masturbation.
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