Guh.

[jetpack_monkey]

Okay, I have to finish my bachelor's degree now. Because I am *so* applying to this MA program afterwards. Partially because it's a degree in cult movies (and television), but mostly because it'd give me unfettered access to the Brunel University Cult Film Archive. Also, England is awesome.

Shame they require an honors degree. I'd have to work my rear end off to reverse the damage done my first few years of college. Then again, maybe Classic-Horror.com is qualification enough.

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[coltsbane.livejournal.com]

They'd probably accept a four year US degree provided there was a senior thesis involved. A regular degree from a British university is 3 years, an Honours degree is 4 years with a research component. Kinda like a hardcore senior thesis, but I'm told when converting stuff like that, as long as you have a decent GPA and a solid senior thesis tucked under your belt, they look favourably upon it.

Plus I think your Classic-Horror.com experience would look great on the application :)

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

If only it were that easy at ASU. Senior Thesis is only available through the honor's college here, which is a pain to get into. That being said, if he pulled excellent grades for the first year and then applied to Barret, he could probably get into the program, since ASU doesn't count transfer grades for stuff like that once you've got an ASU GPA.

*pokes Nate* That's my way of saying you should do it, by the way. Besides, then I'd have even more reason to go to London for my vet school.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jealousy_/]

Dude, sign me up! Granted, my degree isn't media or communications, but I think the 4 credit classes I took on Twin Peaks and "Science Fiction for the Fun of It" (in which we actually studied such films as Freejack and Eraserhead) should make up for that, don't you?

[bellatemple]

Oh, I so needed yet another potential MA/continued studies/figure out my future idea to add to my list.

Which now stands at something like 14 different choices. Of which I have the money for . . . 0 of them.

*sniffles and reaches for the shiny MA program*

[diannelamerc.livejournal.com]

Oh, you have to try for this! Nail some decent grades, offer ClassicHorror, and write an application essay that kicks their ass.

Even better, see if you can get in touch with some of the profs therebefore you're to the point of applying. With CH you already have an established common ground to chat/ask questions/etc. from. If you end up e-meeting anyone involved in the program and they know and like you, applying is likely to to be more of a formality later. :)

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

I'm just tossing this in here as another option to consider, but Bowling Green State University's M.A. in Popular Culture (http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/gradcol/programs/page27327.html) is really, really, really freakin' awesome.

Not that the above isn't MORE awesome (and England is infinitely cooler than a small town in northern Ohio an hour south of Detroit), but it might feel slightly more feasible while still being uber cool. :)

All that said, I recently found an M.A. program in writing popular fiction (http://www.setonhill.edu/o/index.cfm?PID=13) that has me all drooly. Screw getting a doctorate, I just wanna rack up a bunch of master's degrees! :D