Good one! When I was applying to business schools because I thought one day I would inherit my dad’s businesses (that didn’t happen. Life had other plan for me and him), I applied to the usual - Harvard, MIT, Sanford (but not Columbia because I felt it’s too stuffy for me) but being into arts, music, and theatre, I had to apply to a school in NYC. So NYU was a natural choice. It was 2 years of hard work for a techie trying to learn finance and accounting. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything else since everything I learned I use everyday. And I love living in NYC the 10 years I lived there. And then I got burned out by my company. 9/11 didn’t help. So I moved back to SoCal. But I wouldn’t mind other round of NYC 🙂. Call me stupid or a hard luck case for high rents 🤣
Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. I wish more people shared the realities of the writing life. I too had dreams of NYC, so I went to Parsons School of Design for two years, one year living in the grimy East Village of the early 80s. If I hadn't done it I would always have wondered what it would have been like.
Great article and you’re sooo right! it’s the system that keeps the class of people where they are at unless like you and have a gazillion dollar debt that you’ll never get paid off…but hell yeah let’s keep putting billionaires in the White House…that will change things NOT!!!
I LOVE this! Omg I had the Ivy League delusion but never followed it. Got my MSW at Loma Linda in SoCal and took Lighthouse Book Project in Denver - but it’s binders that helped me the most. 😉
Good one! When I was applying to business schools because I thought one day I would inherit my dad’s businesses (that didn’t happen. Life had other plan for me and him), I applied to the usual - Harvard, MIT, Sanford (but not Columbia because I felt it’s too stuffy for me) but being into arts, music, and theatre, I had to apply to a school in NYC. So NYU was a natural choice. It was 2 years of hard work for a techie trying to learn finance and accounting. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything else since everything I learned I use everyday. And I love living in NYC the 10 years I lived there. And then I got burned out by my company. 9/11 didn’t help. So I moved back to SoCal. But I wouldn’t mind other round of NYC 🙂. Call me stupid or a hard luck case for high rents 🤣
Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. I wish more people shared the realities of the writing life. I too had dreams of NYC, so I went to Parsons School of Design for two years, one year living in the grimy East Village of the early 80s. If I hadn't done it I would always have wondered what it would have been like.
Great article and you’re sooo right! it’s the system that keeps the class of people where they are at unless like you and have a gazillion dollar debt that you’ll never get paid off…but hell yeah let’s keep putting billionaires in the White House…that will change things NOT!!!
I LOVE this! Omg I had the Ivy League delusion but never followed it. Got my MSW at Loma Linda in SoCal and took Lighthouse Book Project in Denver - but it’s binders that helped me the most. 😉