Mar 12 2009
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Two pieces of information: 1) Today is the birthday of the artist whose work I’m writing about for my MA thesis. He was born in 1912. 2) Heard from my home school. They offered me $14k a year with potential for MUCH larger dissertation fellowship than UIC can offer. Also quicker time to graduation (though in this economic climate, one cannot necessarily count that as a good thing). This $14k was about what I was expecting them to come back with after finding out about UIC’s offer. No word from CUNY yet, but I’ll probably get in there with no funding because everyone gets in there with no funding. Oh! Which would you rather make next year: $14k with a $45k job waiting for you, or $20k with probably no job waiting for you outside of the one that your wits could procure? So tough. I know what I’m going to do, but I’m still going to pretend that $20k is a possibility because I like imagining what I would buy with the money. Ugh. Someday blueberries will not be a luxury item for me.
