As I've just reached the half-way point of my undergraduate college career, I've begun to wonder what I'll do after graduation. I have definitely decided on graduate school, but choosing where and what I'd like to study has become difficult. My interested cover a wide range: History, Literature, Philosophy, History of Music, History of Art, Classics, Foreign Languages...it goes on. I am most interested in History, Literature, and Classics. Which sounds perfect because Classics is historical languages and literature. So that makes things a little easier, but it's hard to just forget about my other interests.
Then I began to think of where I'd like to go for graduate training. First I started looking close-by. Then my girlfriend encouraged my to reach higher, and I looked into Harvard. It seems pretty perfect, offering most everything that I'm interested in. The expense is actually not as high as you'd think, but their expectations certainly are. If you drop below a B, you have to take the class over. At least, that's how it sounded to me.
Then my mother, ever-supportive, (and I lover her dearly for it!), turns to me and says, "Why settle? You could go anywhere! Why stay in the United States?"
I blinked. It had never even occurred to me that I could go ANYWHERE. This was both very exciting and very intimidating. Now my list of potential schools has grown tenfold. But there are so many amazing schools to choose from, I don't mind the hunt.
I still haven't decided on a school, or even a program, but I'm narrowing it down slowly, day by day.
18 June 2010
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