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Monday, February 20, 2006

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.

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