Like Father Like Son
This weekend I am taking my youngest son out to DeKalb IL, where he will be entering his sophomore year as a BFA Acting major at Northern Illinois University. He’s transferring from the University of Buffalo, where he sort of hung out for a year after an unsuccessful first round of auditioning for major conservatories. He tried them again this year, and got wait-listed at Carnegie Mellon, but eventually had to settle for NIU, since it had the best program of all the schools to which he got accepted. Actually, he was a walk-in at the NIU auditions, not having applied in advance. He was between auditions and simply signed up on the spot in New York for NIU. It was not his intent to go to a liberal arts college, but when the final moment came, he did not get into a conservatory. On paper, NIU has a better program than UB, and I was quite eager for him to leave home and go to school at some distance. UB is about an hour from Dunkirk, and I know a good many of the faculty there. So I figured it was best to have him take off. Continue Reading »
