Sooo much work over the past few days.
Hustling here and there to four different universities to assemble my various transcripts. Emailing professors. Composing my resume.
I had no idea that in order to get a letter of recommendation you had to write a “letter of request” for a letter of recommendation. The good news is that because of the Internet, I learned how to do it well. Anyway, trying to get time off from work and switching my schedule to link up with professors, and more time crunching in order to dub my documentary DVD, since the professors wanted to see my work.
Lots of trips on the train — more than I’ve taken in a really, really long time. I am so not used to commuting by train every day! Then again, if I’m going to enrolling in a post-graduate program and shooting doc, I’d better get really comfortable with mass transit.
As of today, my letters of request are all accounted for, and all the professors I spoke to all remember me, are happy to see and hear from me, and were more than happy to commit to writing me recommendations. That is a tremendous blessing; admissions requires three letters from professors or professionals (such as a boss). After all that legwork, the simple task of cutting my doc down to under ten minutes from a total run time of twelve minutes will be a total piece of cake.
However, next up, I’ve got to focus on a treatment. Luckily, I’ve been working on a doc concept this whole time, all these years. I’ve got six weeks remaining until my personal deadline to postmark my application, and that is two weeks ahead of deadline. I want to knock the treatment out in a week, and knock out the statement of purpose in the next week. After that, I can just focus on revision.
“Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
