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Grad School Chronicles: Nevertheless I Persisted....and Whined Incessantly About It (opens the original)
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I finished up my first year of an MFA (master’s in creative nonfiction) back in May. It was a lot of things—gratifying, fun, inspiring, energizing—but most of all it was pretty frickin hard.I thought I knew hard when I got accepted into an MFA. I thought moving out West by myself and turning up to a remote Forest Service station in northern Idaho with all of my worldly belongings in my Subaru was hard. I thought 1000 hours of overtime over a five-month fire season was hard. I thought waking up a
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