Grad School: It's hard to be passionate about a man who doesn't call

Contributor: Speak Coffee

Between Thanksgiving and New Year's I applied to six schools. One MA program and five MFAs, all in fiction/prose/creative writing or whatever they chose to call it at that particular school. I've heard back with an acceptance to the MA program. Which is terribly exciting! Don't get me wrong, this means I'm going! My life is not stagnanting at a Starbucks job! I can go and get my degree(s) and go teach and be thrilled to be in my field. My field -- I'm going to have a field! But I haven't heard a thing from the five other programs, and while I've tried to be patient, knowing that you're a fish on the hook is bound to make you a little twitchy.