Late again! The end of this semester has been a little busy.
For my final blog post, I would like to say that so much of what I've learned this semester has been valuable, and from a strictly pragmatic point of view, this class has been fantastic. But really, what I think I value most about what we've discussed is this idea of beginning with the end in mind.
I would really like a job. This sounds like a completely obvious statement but it's not. For the entire MFA, I heard there were no jobs to be had, and so I never really considered that I'd like to end up tenure track faculty in a strong English department. But now I think of this path as a real possibility, and I have a few years at TTU to work on this goal.
(With that in mind, I find myself looking at this link quite often: http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/CreativeWriting_2016.
This website takes some of the opaqueness out of the process, but the content is user-generated, so maybe not 100% accurate. Still, useful. )
Also, to go with this idea, I learned how to think and talk about composition in a much more informed way. The theorist I most responded to was Peter Elbow, and I'll be sure to use his ideas about learning the language of SWE in future classes.
