This happens in MFA programs too, traditinally, sometimes a student needs to be cut off at the knees, so a prof will tell the better student who is less of a braggart shitheel to go apeshit on their next crit of previously mentioned next Pynchon wannabe or whatever because honestly, sometimes people NEED to be taken down a peg. (I've bee…
This happens in MFA programs too, traditinally, sometimes a student needs to be cut off at the knees, so a prof will tell the better student who is less of a braggart shitheel to go apeshit on their next crit of previously mentioned next Pynchon wannabe or whatever because honestly, sometimes people NEED to be taken down a peg. (I've been there, I wanted to be the next Bret Ellis. As reality sank in, time took me down as many pegs as needed until I admitted I knew nothing and started the real work. But first I had to realize I was NOT a beautiful and unique snowflake, and that I was NOT in the same sort of position Bret Ellis was when he wrote Less Than Zero.)
This happens in MFA programs too, traditinally, sometimes a student needs to be cut off at the knees, so a prof will tell the better student who is less of a braggart shitheel to go apeshit on their next crit of previously mentioned next Pynchon wannabe or whatever because honestly, sometimes people NEED to be taken down a peg. (I've been there, I wanted to be the next Bret Ellis. As reality sank in, time took me down as many pegs as needed until I admitted I knew nothing and started the real work. But first I had to realize I was NOT a beautiful and unique snowflake, and that I was NOT in the same sort of position Bret Ellis was when he wrote Less Than Zero.)