Meet The First Year Students
How nice—the New York Daily News profiles one of NYU’s first-year MFA students. She recounts her acceptance:
“[The] head of NYU’s program said they were excited about my writing… I don’t know if she says that to everybody, but it felt pretty good.”
She good-naturedly plays along in the article’s accompanying video, no doubt delighted simply to be able to say, “I’m at NYU!” When you begin an MFA program, the formerly all consuming worries about whether and where you’ll be accepted become as relevant and far-off as kindergarten, but for a while you remember them, like yesterday’s headache, and your daily life is tinged with the amazing.
So what’s with the article’s vituperative comment thread and wink-wink-nudge-nudge tone? The NYU student—the NYU writer—also stars in adult films. Never mind the fiction Mary Gaitskill has made from jobs she once held, and never mind (as another NYU student interviewed for the article points out) the Oscar-winning success of screenwriter Diablo Cody.
And never mind that flying from New York to California and back every week for film shoots sounds more exhausting than the average graduate TA schedule.
(via This Recording)
