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Monkey Mama Takes the Stage
I am delighted to introduce my friend, Ann Thurlow, as a guest blogger. She has been busy taking her son to visit various colleges for theater and performing arts programs and she will be blogging...
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Monkey Mama Learns the Lay of the Land
Monkey Mama has picked up the new language pretty quickly. She can now drop terms like “unifieds,” and discuss “audition vs. non-audition” programs as if she were a native speaker. It is a little...
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Monkeys Dip Their Toes Into the Water – The University of the Arts
Monkey Mama has decreed that her son apply to at least one school with rolling admissions, and we found the perfect candidate in our first campus visit: Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at The...
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The Bronx is Up and My Battery is Run Down – Part 1
Hi all, I’m grateful to Ann Thurlow for providing this blog with reviews of college visits since I have been much occupied with my fiction writing class. It appears that in a fiction writing class...
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Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
It’s irresistible; imagine dropping Bard College, Hampshire College or Bennington College on lower Fifth Avenue and you might get something like Eugene Lang College of The New School. The New School...
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Fordham University at Lincoln Center
Fordham University labels itself as “The Jesuit University of New York” to highlight its Catholic pedagogical tradition but the satellite campus at Lincoln Center on West 61st Street has a decidedly...
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Tisch School of the Arts – New York University
Monkey Son has expressed a desire to attend the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University ever since middle school. Tisch’s roster of celebrity graduates, and its panoply of resources buttress...
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Montclair State University – Public Option Part I
Monkey Mama is willing to risk an onslaught of vituperation from the Tea Party movement when she avers that the United States of America owes a great deal of its success to its early commitment to...
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Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University – Public Option Part 2
If NYU was the “hot chick” whom Monkey Son had long admired from afar, Rutgers was the girl Monkey Mama kept nudging Son to meet, and just “give her a chance.” That chance came with a visit in early...
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