Disappointed

Well, I just found out I was rejected from a summer program that I really wanted to participate in. Normally I wouldn't be too bummed, but I have to admit this one stings. The program is administered by Humanity In Action, a non-profit group that studies human rights. Had I been accepted, I would have spent 5 weeks in Europe this summer--for free!--workshopping, learning, living, and breathing human rights. It would have been amazing.

Ah! I suppose I shouldn't dwell on it. Perhaps I will try to study at the London School of Economics instead. I could also stay here, work, and go to school or even take an internship the consulting firm Accenture offered me. They did say something about paying for my apartment and food if I was to work somewhere other than Texas....hmm I wonder if they could move me overseas? I'll have to look into it.

It's 11:45 and I'm fairly drained after a long day of class, homework, rejection and little food. I still have quite a bit of homework to do but I'm not sure I'm quite up to it at this point.

I wish everyone luck in all of their summer plans.

Education

So, I'm making this while I should be getting ready for school. That's probably a mistake. Ah well, I'm looking at graduate programs though I'm only in my second year of school. I'm also looking at adding a 5th year to my undergraduate experience. I suppose looking at graduate programs now looks even sillier.

Anyways, I've been thinking about dropping my business major for an interdiscplinarian plan called Philosopy, Policy, and Economics (based on a model started at Oxford). After listening to various people counsel me one way or the other, I'm still undecided as to what I will do. Perhaps I will drop the Business Honors Program for it and just continue right along and graduate in four years, go to graduate school, and live happily ever after.

I hesitate to do so though because I've heard that after the second year, the program's courses are far more palatable. I won't have any more accounting and the only course that I might dislike will be Finance. Still, PPE seems interesting and would provide me with quite a few options for graduate school. I could, as I hinted at in my first paragraph, just tack PPE on to my existing degree plan and take a victory lap of a 5th year. Upside: More time to think about the future, more graduate school options. Downside: Time and money that could be spent on graduate school.

A bit of background you might find useful:
I am a Plan II (interdisciplanarian plan with no focus) and Business Honors Program major. I am thinking about minors in Radio-Television-Film, Anthropology, Sociology, History, Comparative Literature, and Science, Technology, & Society.

I plan on taking two of these minors and graduating within 4 years. Due to the nature of my business program, I am able to pursue an additional business degree with no added time (I just focus the use my electives).

As a sophomore, I still have time to add PPE and drop BHP and graduate on time with two minors.

My graduate interests include: filmmaking, creative writing, international relations and communications, history, comparative literature, sociology, anthropology, history, and a crazy technology-driven program at NYU I don't quite know how to describe.

Honestly, I think the best thing for me to do is narrow these far-flung interests down. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be quite appreciative.