I’m too tired to actually perform a rewrite of my last post right now… let me just state here that my reasons for wanting to pursue an MFA are also practical. I don’t know at what point I lost my confidence in myself with regard to my abilities, especially as a programmer, but I like the idea of studying good code and using that as a basis for learning how to code well. In doing so, I believe I can “make up” some of the perceived lost ground I’ve made by not entering in to a programming job while in college. I’ve spent the last three years as a tech support monkey and the disparity between what I studied in college, versus what I’ve been doing “professionally” is considerable. I’ll expand on this later.
-Tom