Just wanted to let you know, I just got a phone call... and I GOT ACCEPTED TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!
brie
The Program
Our workshops, master classes, seminars, and lectures are created for writers by writers who discuss student work and examine literature from a practitioner's perspective, not that of a scholar or theorist. We draw fully on the cultural resources of Columbia University--its faculty, libraries, archives, scholarly centers, diverse students, and wealth of facilities. The other Divisions of the School of the Arts--Film, Theatre, and Visual Arts--enrich the Division's programs. The 28 departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offer courses that provide incomparable opportunities for a developing writer. In addition, the Division offers its students the chance to edit, manage, and publish their own magazine, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
We also draw fully on the cultural resources of New York City. As the publishing and arts center of the country, New York provides writers with opportunities and experiences not available elsewhere. Editors, publishers, agents, and other literary professionals participate in our classes, panels, and informal discussions. Current students serve as interns at magazines such as the New Yorker and the Paris Review, and at literary organizations such as PEN and the Poetry Society of America, and work as research assistants to writers who also serve as mentors, such as Anna Quindlen, Rick Moody, A. M. Homes, and Phillip Lopate. In addition, the Bank Street/Liberty Partnership enables more than 20 Writing Division students to teach creative writing to New York City high school students.
We were just informed (by that short email above)that daughter Brie got an important telephone call today..
and.. will soon be attending The Columbia University Graduate School. On average 680 people apply and only about 70 get in.
So yeah! serious congratulations to you, daughter.. the next chapter of your life has just opened up to you.
(way ta go!.. from yer very proud poppy)
