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Xenodore
United States38 Posts
Santa Cruz Pros: CSL team more prestigious Redwood forest Cons: farther from home few connections/friends Riverside Pros: close friend already there only an hour from home accepted for creative writing specifically Cons: questionable neighborhood Anyways, curious what you guys think, just trying to gather as much information as possible, not looking for a poll, mostly just why I should go where   | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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Ghostcom
Denmark4783 Posts
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itsjustatank
Hong Kong9169 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + santa cruz, IMO. riverside is boring. | ||
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Titusmaster6
United States5937 Posts
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Xenodore
United States38 Posts
On May 11 2015 01:19 Titusmaster6 wrote: Been to both, liked Santa Cruz better. But I would say SC just for the fact that it IS far from home and that you DON'T have many friends there. ok, I can follow this train of thought in part. However, I'd be interested to hear more explanation. | ||
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Chocolate
United States2350 Posts
Unless the distance will make costs prohibitively expensive, or you think you have no chance to study creative writing at SC, SC seems like a no-brainer. | ||
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Just_a_Moth
Canada1964 Posts
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Archaeo
United States397 Posts
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EatThePath
United States3943 Posts
I can't recommend UCSC enough for the kind of people you'll find there. You will be greatly enriched by the free and weird permeating the collective psyche. Opening yourself to many diverse views is important for a writer, so you can decide your own perspective and understand others'. There're plenty of "normal" people too if you get tired of the fun ones, and lots of variety in the campus niches and social circles. But this should really come down to money/irl and how good the writing programs are. Not my area so I can't offer any remarks, but I would make a huge effort to talk to faculty and ask people's opinions or read up on the two schools' English departments. I will say that from my experience in a couple non-general writing/analysis courses at UCSC, the options are varied but slant towards intersectional critique and using literature as a tool to expose and understand exploitative systems. There's also a strong thread of awareness running through the curriculum of technology and it's place in human life and its impact on society and ecology. Think near-term sci fi critical thinking. For job prospects after school, I'd proffer that this type of education would make you more marketable for practical creatives type positions in the bay area, and for modern image-savvy organizations generally. (e.g. I have a friend who did queer studies and ended up working at a cloud-based natural language analysis startup.) But congrats either way! You only have good options in front of you.  | ||
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