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oh yeah. sorry I meant...is it considered disrespecting the strike to go on campus? but thank you for answering my question!!

I hope yall get your demands met! Are people not supposed to go on campus at all right now? I was so confused the other day and wasn't sure if I was supposed to go on Columbia's campus or not. I can't believe the crap the admin is pulling (but also I can believe it.)

There is an MFA TA for each studio based undergraduate visual art class at Columbia. The increase in stipend would apply to them as well. The admin attitude is very prevalent in the MFA program. For example there are currently zero photo faculty for the MFAs at Columbia yet they are still accepting photo students bc those students represent $$$ and they know that people will come regardless. Some of the MFA programs at Columbia are still okay like printmaking and painting but the whole demoralizing attitude is just super prevalent and that is a result of the admin. But I do absolutely agree this has a bigger impact on the PhD students. And it would still be a very hard decision to turn down Columbia despite all of this. It just sucks that it is basically a hedge fund with an education wing attached to it

yeah idk what that two week initiative is. My friend says students and faculty are really pissed about it bc typically the co chairs choose faculty not the president of the college. But all in all I think first years will do okay bc they still get two years in the program after this weird summer. I was accepted to Hunter so even if I do get off the waitlist I would still have a choice to make.

my friend is a current student and is somewhat upset because photo only has 6 faculty (including cochairs) this year and 50% of the photo faculty are online only. but hopefully they passed on that info in the acceptance. and congrats on getting in! I'm on the bard photo waitlist as well. I feel like even if it is bumpy this summer since it is a 3 year program it will likely smooth out.

completely agree. I have been reading conflicting things about the issue. I read a peer reviewed study that discussed Bitcoin as much more energy intensive than ethereum .

Damn I'm sorry that they didn't account for your living expenses. My undergrad financial aid advisor always told me that when I ran through my work study money he could just ask for more and the federal government would always allow it. I'm not sure how it works for grad school or with a not cool financial aid officer. Plus, working takes up a lot of time even if it is work study so its not exactly a solution.

It isn't 100% yet but my friend says that there could be as few as 2-3 faculty on campus per discipline with most faculty online. So students would be in person but many faculty would be online. All school crits will be on zoom. A lot of faculty stuff is TBD

Did they give you any work study? I know it is not the same as a living stipend (at all) but at least it would help a bit. And they should be able to offer that very unfortunately only to US citizens or permanent residents.

Where do you hear 4-5 were accepted? my friend is currently in photo and the co-chairs said that 3 people would be accepted. Good luck to everyone on the waitlist there might be some movement as some students will take leave due to the hybrid instruction this summer.

Interesting, let me know how it goes? I think if you use opensea it should be free https://opensea.io/faq but I am just starting to look into it. You should not have to transfer any money into the wallet in order to use it for your NFT

I honestly can't decide how I feel about it. Part of me feels excited because I am into blockchain technology but part of me feels disheartened. I think I will need like another year to sort out how I feel about it lol. But I am just extremely curious about this relatively new type of work

I'm not proposing a conspiracy. It just looks like bot accounts. Since 30%-50% of internet traffic is bots it wouldn't be that unusual. The conspiracy is simply that for any website that relies on measuring engagement for monetization there will be bots. Based on the shared pattern of these accounts I'm just wondering if some of them are bots. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/bots-bots-bots/515043/

I didn't realize that Elon was on the mfa forum but with NFTs looking to be the next art market star...it makes sense

I was also accepted to Hunter and I am considering doing this (ie reapply to yale & apply to rutgers next year). Since it is a three year program it will take me three years regardless. I don't think credits will transfer between different MFA programs? Hunter tuition isn't too much more $ than my shared studio space anyhow.