Wondering about your lives
Hello all-
It occured to me that this would be a great time for everyone to share what they´re thinking of doing next year. I´m terribly curious to know what you guys are considering. Even if you´re not graduating yet or have already graduated, let everyone know what you´re thinking of for the future (or if you´re completely undecided, that´s cool too). You can read my (very tentative) plans in the first comment.
I hope I´m not adding to the pressure some of you guys are undoubtedly feeling. Rather, I was hoping we could take a breather from our own lives for a moment and consider how our friends our doing, and whether or not our paths will be crossing in the near future.
Yours,
Nina
It occured to me that this would be a great time for everyone to share what they´re thinking of doing next year. I´m terribly curious to know what you guys are considering. Even if you´re not graduating yet or have already graduated, let everyone know what you´re thinking of for the future (or if you´re completely undecided, that´s cool too). You can read my (very tentative) plans in the first comment.
I hope I´m not adding to the pressure some of you guys are undoubtedly feeling. Rather, I was hoping we could take a breather from our own lives for a moment and consider how our friends our doing, and whether or not our paths will be crossing in the near future.
Yours,
Nina
posted by Nina at 1:32 PM
16 Comments:
Right now, I´m studying abroad in Spain. I´ll be in Chicago for winter break, in South Africa for winter quarter, then in Chicago again from spring break to graduation in June. (I´m taking spring quarter off!)
I´m planning on getting a job right after graduation. So far, I´ve applied for a position with a company called Epic Systems in Madison, WI, to be a Program Manager/Implementation Consultant. Basically, I´d help hospitals figure out how to use the software that they buy from Epic. By this time next year, I hope to be working in the profit sector but impacting the non-profit world, if not in this job then in something along these lines.
I'm at the U of C plugging away on my creative BA. I'm uncertain about what I'll be doing next year. I might apply to some MFAs, but I'm dropping resumes for a lot of entry level jobs too--including one at Epic Systems. Coincidentally I'm in Madison, WI right now, cutting class at my mom's house with my brother and trying to get some writing done. I'm going to see Quantum of Solace tonight. I hope it doesn't suck.
The new Bond flick is mediocre.
I'm trying to decide between grad school and working. I got into an MPhil program at Cambridge, and I'm applying for a bunch of management/healthcare consulting gigs. We'll see where that goes. Basically I'm trying to figure out if next year I want to be 50k in school debt or start to fill my bank account.
Help?
Fill your bank account...with knowledge?
Hey,
Can't remember my blogger login, hence the different username.
I'm doing an MPhil at Cambridge (UK) right now in History and Philosophy of Science on a Marshall Scholarship. Next year, MSc by research in Science & Technology Studies at Edinburgh. After that, PhD in math somewhere in the states.
Wow congrats Michael!! That's amazing!
I'm split between doing consulting in Europe, government / DoD work, or going straight through to law school. Basically I have no idea what I'm doing in life...I kind of just want to go hang out on a beach for a year...
There ought to be a Telluride Association Take-a-Break-for-a-Year-on-a-Beach-in-Croatia Program. I think TATBYBCP would enjoy great success. Of course, it would have to be totally free and catered by Stan.
yeah i'm totally up for a beach in croatia, man. in any case, i hope to get a scholarship that will let me volunteer at the brazilian immigrant center in allston, MA, for a year without getting a real job. if i can save a little money, i'll go visit an uncle who's teaching english in korea. or i'll find some way of going back to cuba for a couple months (i studied abroad there for a semester last year and i'm dying to go back.) i dunno. mostly, i'm looking forward to doing all the little random things that i haven't been able to do in college, like learning computer programming and living with my cat and cooking my own food. yeah, if all goes well, my first year in the real world might actually be relaxingcompared to life as an undergrad.
I really have no idea what I'll be doing next year. I might end up in grad school at some point, but not for a year or two after graduation. I have a final interview with Teach for America next month, so we'll see how that goes, but I'm not 100% sure that that's what I want to do anyway. At some point soon I should probably start applying for other jobs...I'm looking at nonprofits, specifically ones that deal with educational inequality. Clearly it'll be easy for me to pay off all my student debt in no time!
I kind of don't want to think about graduation or the real world...I can't believe I have so little time left in college.
I'm studying in Buenos Aires at the moment, but I took last semester off to live in Mexico again, so I won't be graduating until December '09. After that, well, I'm in the Absolutely No Idea camp, but I kind of like it that way. My post-college "plans," which are too indistinct and from-the-gut and unattached-to-actual-means-of-subsistence to be reasonably called that, involve applying for poetry grants, waitressing on Cape Cod for a summer with a friend from school, and finding any possible means to be in Mexico more permanently. No matter what, I'm definitely a fan of Hannah's cat + cooking priority list. . .
Currently, I am agonizing over my thesis and short-term life plan(s). The latter include Peace Corps, studying Turkish for the summer, working at a Chicago non-profit for a year, trying my luck with Google or Teach for America, etc. In short, I have no idea what I want to do.
sorry i'm a little late, but, i have no idea what to do either. going back to buenos aires for winter break and am going to check out the employment scene over there. applied to a bunch of journalism/UN stuff but doubt they'll hire me. don't want to go to law school just yet. totally down for croatian beach bumming. can't wait to see stan again.
I'm all for the beach in Croatia and barbequed crack rocks. Mmmm. I've had an interesting, shall we say, couple of years, and I'll be graduating the same time as Robin (next winter). After that, I'll be headed to grad school for sure-- though not sure which program or even country (fingers crossed for UK fellowship!). I'm doing medieval studies and writing about grisly dead saints. I love, love, love manuscripts and I want to move near a big University library again, so no TFA for me.
Hopefully someone reads this seeing as it's now been a month since Nina's plea.
I think we all want to be out of college...but not in the real world where nothing is free and nobody is begging you to get a credit card. Anywho, we'll find out after January 15 if I can't get my grad apps together in time and if I'll in fact be at an Af-Am Studies grad dept. More deference of loans, a masters degree, and trying to find a job if all else fails are in my immediate future.
Very much in agreement with Jessica about trying to get my thesis into order.
I'll be going a somewhat unusual route - I'm doing 11mos of service in the Estonian army next year. It's a break from normal life, and probably the most physically demanding and just plain physical labor I'll ever do. After that, I don't know. Thoughts:
definitely grad school eventually, something social scientific, but I'd like to spend some time in Estonia/EU first, adding some praxis to my theorein.
Well, Teddy, I've got you beat as far as delayed responses go, though maybe someone will beat me soon. I'm glad that so many of us aren't sure what we're doing next year. I've finally realized that I won't be happy with myself unless I go to Latin America for a few years, so I've cancelled my TFA application and I'm going to do find some way to get down south, though I'm not really sure how yet. I've applied for a bunch of things--a Fulbright to go to Argentina, some traveling fellowships to spend a year in Brazil, some human rights stuff to go somewhere below the US-Mexico Border. I'm going to start thinking seriously about backup plans this month, too. Maybe I'll apply for the Peace Corps; apparently they're looking intensively for Spanish-speakers right now. Maybe I'll end up teaching at an international school. If all else fails, I'll work some sort of summer job and buy a plane ticket to Buenos Aires and teach English or do translations while working toward a free Masters in history at Argentina's big 300,000-person university. Okay, that was a lot. Was it more than everyone else wrote? I guess I'll only be able to tell once I press "publish."
Oh, and in other news, I had a dream about Masha last night. It was weird, and it's what made me remember this blog.
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