It’s over. The deadline has come and gone. You’re done. You have handed in everything they have asked for. Now you can finally sit back and relax. Or can you? I remember how I felt the day I finally handed in all my application materials. There was a sigh of relief and a fleeting feeling [...]
Tagged: writing
Be Well Read
January 25, 2013 at 11:44 am
As an applicant to the masters in journalism program at the BU College of Communication, one of the essays that you have to write, along with life narrative and professional experience, is called “Periodicals”. This is the part of your application where you get to show the admissions committee how engaged you are in the [...]
I’ve Communicated… Stuff
January 16, 2013 at 9:29 am
It’s sitting there, gloating at you. That blank piece of paper on which you are meant to compose your second application essay. Oh, how you hate blank paper. Somewhere in the recesses of your undoubtedly incredible mind lurks an idea waiting to spill its way out onto that clean landscape of unfulfilled creativity, but no [...]
Your Finals Week Playlist
December 16, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Every six months, writing students bang their heads against the walls for hours on end, repeatedly asking themselves why they waited until the end of the semester to do all of their rewrites and revisions. You can trust me on this. I’ve been doing it for years. So, as the only person who will ever [...]
