Summer Study programme
I know what I'm like. I have hermit phases.
If I'm going to stay away a long time, I need to have some months where I'm forced to communicate with people.
So I decided to do a creative writing course at Columbia, in NYC. E had told me about it. The courses they offer look great.
Today I checked out the prices.
I can study a term in the spring, summer or 'fall'. Summer is cheapest.
If I go to the US as a tourist, I can do one class a week, for about £350 fees.
If I go as a student, I have to do four classes a week, but the price rises to £7000 fees.
I'd rather do more than less. And I'm rich, I guess. But still. £7000. And probably another £4000 to live off. For thirteen weeks.
I've been saving money so long that the idea aggravates me. It's 20% of my money. Why can't I just do three classes? Why does it have to be one, or four?
To study at Columbia this Autumn, I have one month left to apply.
Fast decision required.
If I'm going to stay away a long time, I need to have some months where I'm forced to communicate with people.
So I decided to do a creative writing course at Columbia, in NYC. E had told me about it. The courses they offer look great.
Today I checked out the prices.
I can study a term in the spring, summer or 'fall'. Summer is cheapest.
If I go to the US as a tourist, I can do one class a week, for about £350 fees.
If I go as a student, I have to do four classes a week, but the price rises to £7000 fees.
I'd rather do more than less. And I'm rich, I guess. But still. £7000. And probably another £4000 to live off. For thirteen weeks.
I've been saving money so long that the idea aggravates me. It's 20% of my money. Why can't I just do three classes? Why does it have to be one, or four?
To study at Columbia this Autumn, I have one month left to apply.
Fast decision required.
posted by Lectrice at miércoles, abril 13, 2005
2 Advice:
I wish you'd actually SAID this earlier. American unis have the tradition of "auditing" courses. You are formally allowed to participate fully in any course, the idea being (despite the name) that you are assessing the course's suitability for you. You just can't sit the exams.
You could have enrolled for your one lesson a week, audited the others, and sat your legal exam.
The more you edit info for other people, the more you dictate what their responses can be.
Just something to think about.
American unis have the tradition of "auditing" courses. You are formally allowed to participate fully in any course, the idea being (despite the name) that you are assessing the course's suitability for you. You just can't sit the exams.
You could have enrolled for your one lesson a week, audited the others, and sat your legal exam.
Brilliant. One problem has been the uni refusing to answer sensibly any questionI ask. 'Send me the fall prospectus' results in the summer prospectus landing on my mat two months on, etc.
The more you edit info for other people, the more you dictate what their responses can be.
But if I don't have a blind bonking clue as to the range of their possible responses, then I'm unaware that I'm editing, because that's not the question I'm trying to pose.
Add to that the consistent likelihood of only communicating such enquiries while pissed, and the potential pratfalls become obvious, no?
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