New Mexico State University, Department of English
Reviewer's Name:
ParkerStaley
Review Date
April 22, 2009
Year of Graduation:
2007
Review Title:
Desert + Monsoons + Classroom Ebullience = Words
Full Review of the Program:
The time I spent at NMSU honing my fiction was almost ethereally great--not so ethereal, though, because I came away with a depth of understanding of sense of story, of what makes fiction work and why it is important, of commitment to my work, that is almost as palpable as the wonderful friends I made there.
I came here from Chicago, and was either going here or to a school in Boston, and to say that arriving here was a shock to my sense of life would be a gross understatement, but there is no decision I look back on in my life that makes as much sense as this one. I got to teach my own classes, and my own teachers were less that than partners in my strivations--opening doors, pushing me through them, showing me doors in the distance. You can go to a school in a big city with lots to do and professors whose names have a fair chance of being recognized by someone haphazard on the subway, or you can whittle away the distractions to be at a place like NMSU, where the professors take you as seriously as the locals do their chile.
Overall Rating
Reputation Rating
Location
Quality of Faculty
Student Competitiveness
(5=most competitive)
Campus Facilities
Financial Assistance
Making Contacts
Diversity
Career Services/Development
Dating Scene
LGBT Friendly
Social Scene in General
Family Friendly
Cost of Living (5=most affordable)
Dining Options
Admissions
Full-time: Yes
Part-time: Yes
Length of Program: 3 Years
Low Residency: No
Student Body
Genre
Fiction
Poetry
