Deciding what I'm gonna do after this semester and after I graduate. I mean I'll probably go to grad school but I'm avoiding the details.
Taking a break is fine, but it might be best to think about what kind of grad degree and what one would like to do with it, during those intervening years. It's also a good idea to stay in contact with people that could help, for example, people who might write letters of recommendation. Ideally, between undergrad and grad, one should also be compiling info on programs of interest at particular universities, etc. Of course, easier said than done.
An MFA program is probably eternally a pipe dream, but I manage to keep the option open, I think. (Well, the option minus the cost.) One day I'll convince a scholarship out of someone (probably not), get the degree, and then rest on my laurels for the rest of my life making mucho buckos off of my impeccable verse (definitely not). Dreams are good!
I'm like the opposite. I have more than a year and a half to choose my master but I'm already panicking about job prospects, even though I'm definitely top of my class. If I don't stop myself I can endlessly worry if what I'm doing now is the best I can do.
I guess that brief blurb was a tad misleading, it's not as bad as it sounds! I plan on either getting my master's in public administration or health administration. I have plenty of time before the deadlines arrive so that's not a big deal. My parents are trying to push me towards health, since their doctors, but I'm leaning towards public admm, so I'll probably choose that. As for next semester I only need 6 credits, so I just need to decide whether to pad my schedule and go full time, or find a job and go part time. I'd like to get a job and go part time, but there's a dearth of jobs in my small college town, so I'm having trouble finding one. I would go full time but I'd feel bad wasting the extra $1500 unnecessarily, and I don't wanna sit on my ass with no job and only two classes.