DidacticPrinter

While I know this article is fairly strictly about MFAs in creative writing, I'm pretty sure it's almost identical for visual arts as well... It's a good read, nonetheless. http://chronicle.com/blogs/arts/m-f-a-application-season-etiquette/29172

Yellow Magnet: When did you hear from CCA? And any idea if all departments request interviews? They're my top choice, but with their interview date set for 2/23 I'm feeling a bit nervous about the non-response I'm hearing...

Jet black

pumpkin spice

national pride

I will now cope by singing this song until the time comes when I know for sure where/if I will be going somewhere: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LL2GGrz17qo&feature=kp

prison guard

Oh, and I also filled out my FAFSA. It didn't take very long, but at least I felt like I was doing something productive towards the grad school goal. It's nice feeling like you have something you can contribute (again) to the process.

For the first two months I was really great. December was prepping for Christmas and travel. January was work and doing a 30-day Bikram yoga challenge. I knew results weren't supposed to be in until mid-March, and I was prepared for that. I was all very zen about the whole thing. And then on 1/28 SAIC asked for an interview and that was out the window. I'm now onto the obsessive e-mail checking. In search for ideas for help with interviews and how to prepare for them I found GradCafe and am on here all the time. Despite notifying my job back in October that I wouldn't be coming back next year (I teach high school art and philosophy, so they need to know in as much time as possible to do recruiting), I hadn't really "checked out" until about a week and a half ago, and now I can't focus on anything, because, well, does it really matter? I'm leaving anyway... Surely my seniors have it together by now, right? They can put together their grades and portfolios without any help from me! I am still doing some yoga, and I ought to be learning some lines for a play I'm in... Also should start booking things for spring break in Nepal, but I've just started worrying about the idea that I'll be notified about schools WHILE I'm in Nepal on a yoga retreat where internet access is severely limited...

Sorry to hear it, Loric. Rejections always suck, but they're always worse when they're vague, then try to offer suggestions that are equally vague. It really doesn't help anyone involved.

Received official confirmation and a Skype contact request for my interview with SAIC. Interview won't be until March 1, but they did let me know that it will be 25 minutes and while we're talking they'll be looking at my images on a projector... which will totally blow my pieces out of size (most of them are fairly miniature, like 3"x5"), but yanno. Ugh. Only one more month to get my answers to the popular questions prepared and rehearsed!

It's my second time applying, but the first time was four years ago, when I was fresh out of college and with no job experience (and I was completely devastated). Now I have job experience, but in a somewhat unrelated field (teaching high school in my subject area, but that doesn't mean actually getting to make your own things) that some days drives me crazy (because my high schoolers are lazy), so I'm reapplying with a different medium (last time ceramics, this time printmaking), and hopefully to a happier outcome. (This time I at least have an appointment for an interview. Even if I don't get in anywhere, I'm still doing better than last time!) If I don't get in this year, I'm going to apply for paid residencies and/or apprenticeships somewhere new I've never lived before, probably abroad (still). (I've got a few applications for places in Turkey and Japan bookmarked already for the day I should need them.) Build my skills and my portfolio. And try, try again. Plus I'll start writing more, maybe a blog about different galleries and exhibits and things so I can get better at writing critiques. If I don't get into grad school, I actually am mostly fine with it. I like my Plan B, too. (Now, if Plan B doesn't work out, I don't know what will come after that... The dog adoption thing sounds lovely.)

MFA in printmaking. I'm wondering if they do their decisions departmentally, maybe?

Yeah, that's what mine looks like currently for RISD, too, despite having them rush delivered. I'm waiting for another response to see whether or not they actually came through and if my app is/will be processed.

This link with an invitation code was sent to me as soon as my application was finished. You should have one in your email account. https://tuportal3.temple.edu/pacwa/site/portalHomef.html Go to the tab for your applications. If you click on the one that you've already filled out, it should tell you your application status.

Was inspired to look at all of the online applications this morning to see if there was any news, like you guys did with Yale. When I dug around a bit on Temple's admissions portal I learned when I clicked on my submitted application that I've been rejected at Tyler. Doesn't feel great, but right now knowing about a rejection feels better than obsessing over not knowing!