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[bubonic_funpack]

part of me wishes i won't get accepted into any grad school so i can just goof off for a year. waitressing, squatting, traveling, teaching english, anything. just to have an excuse to execute an emergency back-up plan.

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[orangecrush1189]

you can always defer after you get in, can't you?

[bubonic_funpack]

most schools specifically say non-deferrable. the pain of aiming higher than my league, ugh.

[missmoses]

you could always wait a year...Americans don't get a chance to go be young educated people. we're either young and dumb or old and educated wishing we were young again. i want to do my traveling now and i think it will give me a better idea of what to do with the rest of my life. after my unconventional education i can go back to school.

i feel your pain in this conundrum, i was there myself a few months ago. it's like as long as you're going to school and you appear to be good at it...why not keep going?

[bubonic_funpack]

yeah, and a huge part of it is just me loving this year of college, and knowing it has to end.
it's not that i don't think i can handle grad school if i wait a year, it's more of the getting burnt out too early thing. don't get me wrong, i love college and all, but i don't want to waste it if i tire myself.

[meredithbabb]

as someone living her emergency plan, it ain't so great.

[bubonic_funpack]

eegh, but... straight into grad school? i mean would you really rather have done that?

[the_adriator]

you and me both.

[the_adriator]

oh, ALSO. I'm leaving here at 5pm tomorrow, so I'll be at ze hotel in Boone however long it takes (we're stopping for dinner on the way).

I call you when I leaving here.

[bubonic_funpack]

i'm warning you, we may be hanging out at a convenience store for purposes to be explained later for a chunk of the night... haha
btw it's cold as doodie here. do pack layers!

[maryzero]

I plan to take a year off before grad school for sure. I just don't want everything coming at me so fast because I feel like if I don't do the irresponsible, unaccountable shit I want to do now I won't get the chance. It's easy to confuse a desire to do things with a fear of success, though. Don't fear success. Conquer grad school and claim what's rightfully yours!

[bubonic_funpack]

i think i feel this way mostly cause it's my mom's will for me to go straight into grad school. i think it's kind of foolish but i also just want to make her happy. i don't completely loathe the grad school thing, i just wish she'd understand.