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# Day in the Life of Ambition
- URL: https://www.joemilanjr.com/day-in-the-life-of-ambition/
- Published: 2014-10-06T03:54:36.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-28T04:45:46.000Z
- Author: Joe Milan, Jr.
- Tags: Korean Pop Culture, The Korea Experience, Uncategorized, #wordpress, #Import 2024-01-25 18:25, #admin

Goals of the Ambition:

- Write more/publish more.  
  - I’ve recently gotten four different stories accepted for publication. You can check out two of them  
    - [Dreams Obstructed](http://thedanforthreview.blogspot.ca/2014/09/fiction-54-joe-milan-jr.html?ref=joemilanjr.com)
    - [Faith in Men](http://www.bananawriters.com/?ref=joemilanjr.com#!faithinmen/c1dtz)
  - Working on a novel called “Bucky” about an adopted Korean kid raised in the mobile home parks of western Washington. It’s still at the stage where I wonder if I’m polishing a turd.
- Enter a Ph. D program for Creative Writing, preferably one where I can hang out with these guys.  
  - In order to enter the program, need to pass the GRE and the GRE Literature exam.  
    - This means reading and studying things I haven’t looked at since Undergrad. Sometimes cool, like learning about how absolutely nuts the Romantic Poets lives were. (Mad Bad Byron, Coleridge, Percy Shelly, Keats. Simply nuts.)
  - Do all the other paperwork
- Teach.  
  - I’m currently working at Yonsei University, with some lovely students who look at me as if I’ve got Gene Wilder hair from Young Frankenstein.
- And there’s more.

What happens when you stack a lot of ambitions all at once? What happens when you expect that you can achieve all the things you set out to do? Well, you begin feeling like a Korean High school student.

What do they feel like? Well, watch the video above.