Figuring out which paper to use for your writing sample is rough. Really, I should develop multiple writing samples catering to specific programs, but it is a LOT of work pumping up an essay to make you look impressive. Though there are shortcomings (many) to using just the one paper for all (and maybe my advisor will tsk me for being lazy), namely that the page limits/minimums change from program to program.
But it seems that 15 is a good number to aim for. The paper I'm hoping to use is the last one I wrote as an undergrad (woot woot!) in my senior seminar on Advanced Zen Buddhist Philosophy. Impressive much?
Anyway, the paper is 12 pages, but I can definitely see places to add (I'm hoping to bring in Dogen's "Tenzo Kyokun" and "Uji" to make a few more points, as well as make some note on method of writing <-- que graduate student-y). I'm pretty happy with this paper on re-reading it, because I had forgotten A LOT of the concepts and I figured them out again based on my writings- hurrah!
I've also got a rough CV put together-- meeting with H on Thursday to get it really pumped up. Way to get things in order, Mandy. Also have a Statement of Purpose writing workshop coming up in a few weeks. GRE is also scheduled. Yes, I really am on top of things. You know, except the whole asking my third letter of rec. writer (or should I say "potential letter of rec. writer") officially to write my letters of rec. Bother, I'd better make an appt. But who has the time?
Plus, I really should meet with my advisor (poor poor overworked advisor) to make sure I've got a good list together. And to see if my writing sample idea flies. Maybe I should use something more recent, but I like this paper better...
Anyway, I'm going to sleep- cheerio!
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Explanation
Fine, so here it is. I have gotten a few comments regarding my lack of updating-ness, and I'd just like to say that I've got a number of good reasons.
I was quite sick the week before last- strep throat with lymph node infection and tonsillitis. Came very close to needing SURGERY- yeek! Got an IV drip and everything- qué locura! Anyway, I was so sick that I missed the first day of my elective class. I wrote the prof an email, but her reply pretty much implied that I would have a lot of difficulty catching up, and really wouldn't be able to miss any other days. Which, of course, is no good- I can't depend on my back not to act up, durn it!
So, I had to scramble about last week to get a whole bunch of one and two credit courses, so that I have enough electives to be a full-time student by all the crazy university mechanism standards. Because I know that you are interested, here are the courses I am taking:
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BEDUC 591 - Diversity Council Internship for Graduate
Students
(1-5 Credits – Grading is Credit/ No Credit. By Permission of Instructor.) Students will work
closely with the Chair of the Diversity Council as they take leadership roles in training and
supervising working groups, overseeing the implementation of projects, and providing updates to
the Council on diversity projects.
Students in all UWB Programs are encouraged to apply. Students will be able to select one of the
Council’s five working groups for their internship. 1. Student Recruitment, Retention, and Support
Diversity helps us celebrate our differences and embrace the ways in which we are interdependent
a. A major project for this group is to design and implement student surveys and focus groups
2. Curriculum a. A major project for this group is to develop and implement a Diversity Minor
3. Technology a. A major project for this group is to design and launch a diversity webpage.
4. Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Support a. A major project for this group is to publish a
guidebook for faculty recruitment and to organize
and implement faculty focus groups.
5. Training Issues a. A major project of this group is to launch a series of activities designed
to increase awareness of diversity throughout the
campus. A project designed around common books on diversity will be launched winter quarter 2011.
--
Policy Studies directed research with DJ:
Human Rights, Human Capital and Migration. (with an excellent prof I work with)
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*HUM 595A: Poverty, Democracy, and Public Scholarship. 1 credit (C/NC). Reading Ananya Roy's Poverty Capital.
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Policy Journal board- 2 credits
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Reader/grader position- 1 credit-- for Human Rights course
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The real trouble is getting them all on my transcript-- it is taking a bit to clear everything up. Until they show up, I am stressed! eek!
Also, I have doctoral program apps, which means I am researching progs (though you may have seen that I've a list of what I'm applying to now), studying to retake the GRE, working on my writing samples, making a CV, doing statements of purpose, etc. etc. etc. Plus, I am way overloading my academic schedule to make my CV look good-- doing a conference this Friday and Saturday plus the one I had a few weeks ago. Plus trying to get in other proposals. Plus applying for RA positions!
Madness, I say!
So, I'd better get back to homeworks so that I can get printings done for PhD prog research tonight. Suffice to say, I am a busy potato.
<3
I was quite sick the week before last- strep throat with lymph node infection and tonsillitis. Came very close to needing SURGERY- yeek! Got an IV drip and everything- qué locura! Anyway, I was so sick that I missed the first day of my elective class. I wrote the prof an email, but her reply pretty much implied that I would have a lot of difficulty catching up, and really wouldn't be able to miss any other days. Which, of course, is no good- I can't depend on my back not to act up, durn it!
So, I had to scramble about last week to get a whole bunch of one and two credit courses, so that I have enough electives to be a full-time student by all the crazy university mechanism standards. Because I know that you are interested, here are the courses I am taking:
---
BEDUC 591 - Diversity Council Internship for Graduate
Students
(1-5 Credits – Grading is Credit/ No Credit. By Permission of Instructor.) Students will work
closely with the Chair of the Diversity Council as they take leadership roles in training and
supervising working groups, overseeing the implementation of projects, and providing updates to
the Council on diversity projects.
Students in all UWB Programs are encouraged to apply. Students will be able to select one of the
Council’s five working groups for their internship. 1. Student Recruitment, Retention, and Support
Diversity helps us celebrate our differences and embrace the ways in which we are interdependent
a. A major project for this group is to design and implement student surveys and focus groups
2. Curriculum a. A major project for this group is to develop and implement a Diversity Minor
3. Technology a. A major project for this group is to design and launch a diversity webpage.
4. Faculty Recruitment, Retention, and Support a. A major project for this group is to publish a
guidebook for faculty recruitment and to organize
and implement faculty focus groups.
5. Training Issues a. A major project of this group is to launch a series of activities designed
to increase awareness of diversity throughout the
campus. A project designed around common books on diversity will be launched winter quarter 2011.
--
Policy Studies directed research with DJ:
Human Rights, Human Capital and Migration. (with an excellent prof I work with)
--
*HUM 595A: Poverty, Democracy, and Public Scholarship. 1 credit (C/NC). Reading Ananya Roy's Poverty Capital.
---
Policy Journal board- 2 credits
---
Reader/grader position- 1 credit-- for Human Rights course
--
The real trouble is getting them all on my transcript-- it is taking a bit to clear everything up. Until they show up, I am stressed! eek!
Also, I have doctoral program apps, which means I am researching progs (though you may have seen that I've a list of what I'm applying to now), studying to retake the GRE, working on my writing samples, making a CV, doing statements of purpose, etc. etc. etc. Plus, I am way overloading my academic schedule to make my CV look good-- doing a conference this Friday and Saturday plus the one I had a few weeks ago. Plus trying to get in other proposals. Plus applying for RA positions!
Madness, I say!
So, I'd better get back to homeworks so that I can get printings done for PhD prog research tonight. Suffice to say, I am a busy potato.
<3
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Applying for Progs-- final...ish... list
I probably should check with my advisors before I say it is "final," but here is a fancy list:
University of Washington Seattle:
Comp. Lit. (PhD)
English (PhD)
Women's Studies (PhD)
Washington State U:
American Studies (PhD)
UCSD:
Writing (MFA)
CalArts:
Writing (MFA)
University of San Francisco:
Writing (MFA)
University of British Columbia:
Women's and Gender Studies (PhD)
University of Oregon:
Comp. Lit. (PhD)
English (PhD)
Philosophy (PhD)
UC Berkeley:
English (PhD)
San Francisco State:
Creative Writing (MFA)
UC Davis:
Cultural Studies (PhD)
University of Washington Seattle:
Comp. Lit. (PhD)
English (PhD)
Women's Studies (PhD)
Washington State U:
American Studies (PhD)
UCSD:
Writing (MFA)
CalArts:
Writing (MFA)
University of San Francisco:
Writing (MFA)
University of British Columbia:
Women's and Gender Studies (PhD)
University of Oregon:
Comp. Lit. (PhD)
English (PhD)
Philosophy (PhD)
UC Berkeley:
English (PhD)
San Francisco State:
Creative Writing (MFA)
UC Davis:
Cultural Studies (PhD)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
carl sagan
Saw this quote (on a luggage tag) and liked it, so here I'm puttin' it:
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the Milky Way
-Carl Sagan
A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the Milky Way
-Carl Sagan
Monday, September 13, 2010
artist statement 2
In my poetry, the body is key. My branch of embodied poetics recognizes that silence stems not just from a lack of will or fear of being heard, but also from absence of tongue or vocal chords. With modern technology allowing the poet to create at a rate of 85 word per minute, the fingers are forgotten in the creation of the poem. We do not recognize the poetic experience as a melding of mind and body or a practice that obscures the line between soul and flesh but instead bow (figuratively, not literally) to our Muses.
I seek to obscure the line between mental and physical, artistic and scientific, word and music; my writing draws upon the suffering of one with continuous acute pain poetically referred to as the body broken, scientifically identified as myofascial pain syndrome. Yet, as I traipse pen in hand through the world of medicine and medical fallibility, I become increasingly interested in its poetic nature, duality fades and powerfully diminishes.
As a graduate student, I study the ways in which words are used to describe the experience of pain. Interestingly, the scientific community has a list of terms compiled for the understanding of a patient's pain, what is referred to as the McGill Pain Questionnaire. Pain can be "sharp" or "splitting," "sickening" or "suffocating."
I wish to do away with the dualism which so permeates our society. Pain, for me, is not simply bad. There are certain advantages. Poetry allows the pain to speak for itself and allows me, my mind, my fingers, and my aching neck to scream out to be heard. Rather than hide my pain from my subjectivity in the artistic process, I work to exemplify Lourde's one-breasted woman, the wounded figure who calls the other disfigured souls to her side in the creation of community.
Note-- probably should note something about embodiment of race too... get some other subjectivity-ness in here.
I seek to obscure the line between mental and physical, artistic and scientific, word and music; my writing draws upon the suffering of one with continuous acute pain poetically referred to as the body broken, scientifically identified as myofascial pain syndrome. Yet, as I traipse pen in hand through the world of medicine and medical fallibility, I become increasingly interested in its poetic nature, duality fades and powerfully diminishes.
As a graduate student, I study the ways in which words are used to describe the experience of pain. Interestingly, the scientific community has a list of terms compiled for the understanding of a patient's pain, what is referred to as the McGill Pain Questionnaire. Pain can be "sharp" or "splitting," "sickening" or "suffocating."
I wish to do away with the dualism which so permeates our society. Pain, for me, is not simply bad. There are certain advantages. Poetry allows the pain to speak for itself and allows me, my mind, my fingers, and my aching neck to scream out to be heard. Rather than hide my pain from my subjectivity in the artistic process, I work to exemplify Lourde's one-breasted woman, the wounded figure who calls the other disfigured souls to her side in the creation of community.
Note-- probably should note something about embodiment of race too... get some other subjectivity-ness in here.
Year of Books- Year Two!
From September 10, 2010- September 10, 2011.
Pinball, 1973
I Know this Much is True
Dance Dance Dance
One Day
Dick of the Dead
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Super Sad True Love Story
Howl
After the Quake
Antwerp- Roberto Bolano
My Life- Lyn Hejinian
Fledgling
Criss Cross
Hear the Wind Sing
Savages- Don Winslow (apparently, there are a lot of them out there...)
Wild Sheep Chase
Norwegian Wood
Give Us a Kiss
Turtle in Paradise
Moon over Manifest
Sputnik Sweetheart
Tomato Red
Woman Hollering Creek
On Hundred Demons
Pedro Parámo
Something Borrowed
Homer's Odyssey (about the cat, not the dude)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Black Automaton
[one love affair]*
d/Deaf and d/Dumb
Mockingjay
Catching Fire
True Grit
When You Reach Me
Winter's Bone
Beezus and Ramona
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Thirteenth: The End
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Twelfth: The Penultimate Peril
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Eleventh: The Grim Grotto
Clementine
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Tenth: The Slippery Slope
Lullabies for Little Criminals
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Ninth: The Carnivorous Carnival
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Eighth: The Hostile Hospital
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Seventh: The Vile Village
How to Train Your Dragon Book 7: How to Ride a Dragon's Storm
The Mysterious Benedict Society Book One
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Sixth: The Ersatz Elevator
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Fifth: The Austere Academy
How to Train Your Dragon Book 6: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
How to Train Your Dragon Book 5: How to Twist a Dragon's Tail
The Lichtenberg Figures- Ben Lerner
How To Train Your Dragon: Book 4: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
How To Train Your Dragon: Book 3: How to Speak Dragonese
How To Train Your Dragon: Book 2: How To Be a Pirate
Dreadnought- Cherie Priest
Boneshaker- Cherie Priest
Fever Pitch- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
Train Man
About a Boy
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Nature's Perfect Food- DuPuis
Poverty Capital- Ananya Roy
Waiting to Exhale- Terry McMillan
Ruined- Lynn Nottage
Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Marquez
Remains of the Day- Ishiguro
Pinball, 1973
I Know this Much is True
Dance Dance Dance
One Day
Dick of the Dead
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Super Sad True Love Story
Howl
After the Quake
Antwerp- Roberto Bolano
My Life- Lyn Hejinian
Fledgling
Criss Cross
Hear the Wind Sing
Savages- Don Winslow (apparently, there are a lot of them out there...)
Wild Sheep Chase
Norwegian Wood
Give Us a Kiss
Turtle in Paradise
Moon over Manifest
Sputnik Sweetheart
Tomato Red
Woman Hollering Creek
On Hundred Demons
Pedro Parámo
Something Borrowed
Homer's Odyssey (about the cat, not the dude)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Black Automaton
[one love affair]*
d/Deaf and d/Dumb
Mockingjay
Catching Fire
True Grit
When You Reach Me
Winter's Bone
Beezus and Ramona
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Thirteenth: The End
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Twelfth: The Penultimate Peril
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Eleventh: The Grim Grotto
Clementine
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Tenth: The Slippery Slope
Lullabies for Little Criminals
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Ninth: The Carnivorous Carnival
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Eighth: The Hostile Hospital
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Seventh: The Vile Village
How to Train Your Dragon Book 7: How to Ride a Dragon's Storm
The Mysterious Benedict Society Book One
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Sixth: The Ersatz Elevator
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Fifth: The Austere Academy
How to Train Your Dragon Book 6: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
How to Train Your Dragon Book 5: How to Twist a Dragon's Tail
The Lichtenberg Figures- Ben Lerner
How To Train Your Dragon: Book 4: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse
How To Train Your Dragon: Book 3: How to Speak Dragonese
How To Train Your Dragon: Book 2: How To Be a Pirate
Dreadnought- Cherie Priest
Boneshaker- Cherie Priest
Fever Pitch- Nick Hornby
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
Train Man
About a Boy
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Nature's Perfect Food- DuPuis
Poverty Capital- Ananya Roy
Waiting to Exhale- Terry McMillan
Ruined- Lynn Nottage
Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Marquez
Remains of the Day- Ishiguro
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
3:15 Experiment - Day Thirty-One--End!
wanting to pull out the good stuff
find some great words
to sound genius-like at the end
but all I really got is sleep need
waking up by self or maybe
never slept at all tonight
worrying about temporal things
at least the cats are happy
find some great words
to sound genius-like at the end
but all I really got is sleep need
waking up by self or maybe
never slept at all tonight
worrying about temporal things
at least the cats are happy
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