Rejection Letters

March 23, 2006 by Dennis Baker 

With the acceptance into Rutgers, I have forgotten to post the rejection letters I received. I have recently received rejection letter from Brown, USD, Long Beach, Depaul, Yale, South Carolina, and USC.

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The Tourist

March 18, 2006 by Dennis Baker 

We leave for Europe (London, Paris, Rome for three days each) in a week. Which we will become official tourists. I say official because these past few weeks I have been doing tourist type preparations.

I bought three books online, Frommer’s Day by Day books for each city. In them they give you the best sights to see if you are in town for one, two, or three days (perfect for us) as well as the best restaurants, hotels, and other things that a “savy tourist” (yes they even have a section for that) would want to know. I am also reading Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Small Island. If you have not ever read Bill Bryson, he is a travel writer with the greatest sense of humor. To start, I recommend A Walk in the Woods, it will want to make you hike the Appalachian trail with a friend, and not at the same time.

I feel I am well versed and ready for the trip. The thing that I am not looking forward to is being a tourist. The ones we make fun of in LA (or NY if that is your fancy). To walk around, not 100% sure where you are going, so the map never leaves your sight. The one taking pictures of anything and everything. Ordering a meal, and then having a look of “What the…” when it comes because you were expecting something completely different. Then again, it is going to be AWESOME! The laptop is staying in the states, so I will not be able to update the blog with photos, but will do so when we return. So guvn’r, ciao!!

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Offers In, Decision Made

March 8, 2006 by Dennis Baker 

The offers have come in and the graduate school decision has been made. The school chosen is Rutgers University in New Jersey. We will be visiting the school the first week of April, after coming back from Europe. I will sit in on classes, we will tour the hospital Karen hopes to work at, and we will go look at condos to purchase. After auditioning for three years, this is a major relief. It feels great to be able to finally go to graduate school. We also found out that my old roommate, Jordan, is doing his dental specialty at NYU. I also just found out that an old high school friend, Ashley, lives 40 minutes away. That will be two people we know on the east coast.

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Long Beach and UCLA

March 1, 2006 by Dennis Baker 

These last two weeks I had MFA auditions for Cal State, Long Beach and UCLA. I did not receive any response that would make me think they were interested. I was late for my Long Beach audition. They told me to meet at the school, when I was suppose to meet at theatre across town (a similar thing happened to me last year). When I got there, the auditioners were just about to leave for lunch. I performed my two audition pieces, and they asked what I was doing for the last year, and that was it. I got the feeling they wanted to be at lunch.

As for UCLA, it was a group audition. We performed our to monologues in front of each other. Last year, they had everyone perform their contemporary monologues and had three people stay afterwards to perform their classical monologues. This year, they asked no one to stay.

Three weeks until we head to Europe and then we will go to New Jersey to visit Rutgers.

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