MA Pitch (Draft)

MA Pitch (Draft)" is a Master's project rejected before it even started.In October 2023, near the beginning of my second year in my PhD program, I was told that an MA exam that did not fit the norms of traditional scholarship would not be passed, and that the current project I had pitched would need to be reworked into a traditional paper.The project in question was critiquing how the standards of traditional scholarship (writing and presentations) flatten 3D objects and limits them to single orientations, ignoring their unique, virtual physicality.Initially envisioned as a virtual gallery or game, this idea would not be possible in a paper format, and a non-paper project would not be recommended to advance, therefore I began the immediate, and somewhat terrifying, process of applying to other programs.