That's where I get stuck. I DON'T know what I'm doing next. So I had to assemble some sort of plan of attack so I'd have something to say when people ask. Right now, this is what my plan looks like:
-defend thesis in May
-take a summer class, while working somewhere for money and doing theater stuffs
-study for and take the GRE (opinions: do I take it before it changes in August or after it changes?)
-research/apply for grad school...preferably at WKU or close to home; I can't bring myself to be far away from Nashville just yet...and figure out assistantships or something to pay for grad school
-take 18 hours next semester (internship, capstone, 4 classes-2 online, 2 in person)
-apply for Disney college program for January through May-ish of next year (I REALLY want this to work out. Disney=love. Grunt work and all, I'd love every second of it)
-graduate in December
-hopefully do Disney...if that doesn't work out, then find a job somewhere and make money
-grad school next August?
But then here's another question: I graduate in December, don't I have to start paying off loans 6 months later? How does that work if one plans on going back to school?
Then there's the issue of choosing WHAT to do in grad school: student affairs? Communication (and take nonprofit classes as electives)? Public Administration with an emphasis in nonprofit management (or something of the like)?
Ugh.
If you're going back to school, you'll be able to defer them. By June when they come due, you'll already have admission to a graduate program if you're heading back in August, and logic tells me that that'll help in getting them deferred, even if you're not in school yet. But that's just logic, and often times these institutions don't operate on logic. =) It's something worth checking out.
ReplyDeleteUncertainty is really scary, Becca. But you're a bright girl and it'll get figured out. I never got to learn the fun and frightening value inherent in not having a plan...I hope you do. =)