New York University Has Raped Me In the Ass
So, it costs 50,000 dollars for next year and they've offered me a grand total of...
Ahem. Drum roll...
9,000 dollars. Woo.
Then I can take out loans from the government for like another 11,000. And to go there I have to take out a 30,000 dollar loan (assuming my parents can sign for it) and be up to my ears in debt for the rest of my life. I don't know what I'm going to do.
Um...not that this will have even the slightest bearing on my decision (well, it might have a slight affect) what would you, the readership of this journal, do in my shoes?
Let me lay it out for you. NYU is like where I picture myself next year. It is so far ahead of every other school I've applied to (in terms of first choice-age) that it's not even really worth comparing. It's exactly what I'm looking for academically. It's the best school in the country to study the kind of filmmaking I want to and, actually, I won't be able to go into filmmaking next year at all if I don't go there. (Unless Emerson's financial aid package turns out to be way better for whatever reason). On the other hand, I'll be paying like 1500 dollar a month loan payments for like ten years and it'll be very difficult to do anything (get a house, enjoy life, etc.) when I get done with school. Plus, the odds of getting a high-paying job in the field. So, have at it. Romantics versus the Pragmatics. Opinions. Now.
posted by Timo @ 8:33 PM
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I shall side with the romantics. In lieu of a coherent argument, I will state a number of things that I believe and string them together in some shoddy fashion. It's how we romantics talk.
All our lives, people have been telling us that money doesn't buy happiness, and all that jazz. Well, it turns out that they're all goddamn hypocrites. For the most part, they seem to care a lot more about money than about happiness. In this case, I suggest that the best course of action is to follow their words, not their actions.
See, people want to believe in the ideal that money is not the path to happiness, but then they make the big 'ole mistake of planning too much. In the short run, money does indeed not buy happiness. In the long run, it offers security. Lots of people mistake the two.
Because, of course, you're always going to be living in the short run, unless you fall into the pitfall of agonizing over the future. I call it a pitfall because it amounts to worrying over nothing at all.
That's what the future is: nothing at all. You can't count on its arrival. Sometimes it's delayed longer than expected, or it doesn't come at all. Things happen that you cannot predict, that you cannot plan for, that you cannot avoid. You can't count on tomorrow, but you can count on today. It's really all we've got.
And that doesn't bother me at all.
One more tidbit:
“In the long run, we're all dead.”
-John Maynard Keynes
Courtesies of Mr. Stack, of course.
Can you really trust a man with seven kids? Has he even had time to be a philosipher what with all the sex and baby-making??
Either way my piece is this- the film industry and your general goal requires a vast amount of self confidence, even to the point of what could be construed as 'gambling upon one's own abilities'. Think about it. You were/are very willing to pay assloads of money to NYU knowing full well the competitiveness of your field and that said education could amount to a grand nothing if you just got swallowed up in it. So either way, it's a large risk but banks on the possibility that you, Timothy Moran, are the one who's good enough or lucky enough to make it.
I think you are.
And either way if you pay several thousand or just one thousand and go to NYU or MCC you still might make it huge and might not make it at all. I know the most prestigious film school in the nation improves your odds. But at the same time, statistical math is complete bullshit and again either way you are gambling.
Wait to see what Emerson etc. say, but i think you can be happy and successful at any place. Or we could just rob a bank because i need an excuse to get dottie back.
Romantics- 2, Pragmatics- suck it
-Dan
don't waste time being pragmatic when you have an opportunity of a lifetime. World class film training=opportunity of a lifetime.
I think you can guess my vote on this one. Even if it's a costly when.
I'm gonna go to school, wind up about 40 grand in debt, have all the potential in the world and still ost likely end up as nothing but a trophy wife, so....live vicariously! Do it for the little people of the suburbs, who can't live their dreams. More importantly, do it for yourself. You're arrogant enough to agree with Dan when he says if anyone can do it, you can. Joking.
The Mel.
Er, joking about the arrogant part, not the you-can-do-it part....even though you are arrogant...damn, you get it!
Success is what you make of it. It's based entirely on your personal definition of it.
Aim high, but don't ever imagine that happiness can be found only in those heights.
What I'm trying to say is, follow your dreams, but realize that joy can be found with or without them.
Oh, wait! My mistake...I forgot that all of my friends were romantics. That's why I keep you guys around!
I feel bad for the pragmatic team now...lacking representation and everything...
Representing the pragmatic side will be the state appointed lawyer: Daniel Speciale.
"Ahem...due to overwhelming opposition, the Pragmatic faction has made this formal statement-
Get a job you stupid hippy. And cut your hair."
- I figured they needed something
Um, ahem, sir, I have short hair and a job.
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