What I did with myself this summer
Over the summer, I spent six weeks in June and July doing a course in publishing at NYU. It's an industry I'd always wanted to go into, and I'd heard about the program through a continuing education board in the English department at my college. I wrote a beautiful, 9-page application (typed, double-spaced), and sent it in by the deadline of March 31st. I heard back a long time before I was supposed to. The course was divided: half was devoted to books and the other half to magazines. Because... Sign in to see full entry.