Can someone please tell me how I am supposed to decide between $29,000 to go to the best civil engineering school in the nation and probably getting a job in California and $14,000 to stay at the 3rd best school and in Atlanta?
I would really, really like to know.
I’ve finally been enjoying the freedom of summer since I finished pummeling the GRE last Friday. There’s just something so wonderful about standing outside and knowing there’s absolutely nothing standing in your way or looming over the horizon.
Tomorrow morning, god willing, I will be California bound for 10 glorious days of relaxation and enjoying the company of my family. Somewhere in the mix will be a very important visit (with many potential ramifications) to Berkeley. Since scheduling my GRE test and applying to the BS/MS program at Tech like I had been planning to do for so many moons the idea of picking up and leaving everything here in Atlanta is… mind-numbing. I long for independence, but I’m already starting to miss the comfort of knowing mom and can just fix things if I mess up.
Today when I turned in my structures final my teacher told me to enjoy my trip. I responded: “Thanks, you too.” I hate it when I do that.
Two weeks from right now I will be back in my apartment at school…
Summer semester is (finally) almost over, and I’m looking forward to not being inundated with things to do.
It’s hard to believe that I’m far enough out of high school to be worrying about graduate school admissions. The thought that I could be just about anywhere doing just about anything 12 months from now is both liberating and terrifying.
These are the thoughts that have been going through my head for the past 6 weeks.
