In two weeks from today I will officially be a Junior in college. And the thought is freaking me out. That means two more years as an undergrad at Penn State. Two more years before my life actually begins. Two more years before Grad School. Two more years, yet I've already become obsessed with Grad school.
The past few days I've done nothing but look up different Grad programs and request information from different universities. I've gone as far as to look up rankings for different programs, it's kind of sick.
I had everything all planned out before coming into this year: I would graduate with my bachelors in History, then move back to Syracuse and live at home while I get my masters at Syracuse University, and then move to New York or Boston or Washington, D.C. and get a job as a translator and everything would be hunky dory.
Yeah, not so much anymore. So far the only thing that has remained constant in that plan is the becoming a translator part. Around Spring Break I began thinking I would just move to Pennsylvania, declare my residency, and then continue my studies at Penn State and get my masters here, but then I discovered the College of Liberal Arts won't accept students into the Graduate program if they were here as an Undergrad.
Sweet. So now I'm thinking big. I had my sights set on Harvard, until I found out I would need to learn German or Latin on top of learning French, and that's just not going to happen. So why not just return to Syracuse? Well, the History program at Harvard is ranked #1 along with Stanford, Yale, and UC Berkley. Where does Syracuse University fall? Well, it's #71. Cool. I don't know why, but I'm obsessed with names and rankings. Plus, I looked up pricing and it would only be $1,000 more a year to go to Harvard instead of Syracuse. Looks like I might be starting German next year...
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