5.06.2009

graduate school vs. the real world

4 finals down and 1 to go. I actually should be studying right now...oh well!

So today was my Sociological Theory final and I am really going to miss that class. It was probably one of the toughest classes intellectually that I have taken, but it was just so wonderful. My professor was a little scary and intimidating, yet by far the most brilliant one in SDSU's sociology department.

This new found love of theory makes me wonder if I should go to graduate school for sociology. I think it would be great, but what would I do with it? Teach? Yikes. I don't know about that.

I really do kind of wish I was going to graduate school right away after undergrad. I just need some more direction in life as to what I would go for so bring on the work experience, right? Double yikes. (especially in this economy) I hope to narrow down my career path soon though and attend graduate school in a few years.

I do blame my uncertainty about my future career on the fact that I wasn't supposed to graduate until May 2010. I was going to use that 5th year to figure out some life plans and check into some grad programs, etc. But here I am almost a full year early and haphazardly trying to figure things out.

I have only known life as a student for the past 17 years and I guess I now need to try to learn a new role: responsible working adult.

Triple yikes.