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This week feels like it has been dragging on forever. I don't know why...maybe it's because I'm going home this weekend? Because I get to see Les Mis with my brother? Who knows.
( Vanity )
Since everyone is graduating I've been thinking about the future and grad school and all that jazz. I'm considering dropping the double History/Fem Studies major down to a Fem Studies major and History minor so I can do school part time next year. I'd take like 5-10 units a quarter, work a lot, and be able to focus more on Japanese and media studies, which is technically what I want to do, anyway. I like history, but Feminist Studies at this school is closer to what I want to actually do, whereas history was a way to access Japanese culture. With my East Asian Studies minor, that's not really necessary anymore. I have to find out about financial aide for part time students, because if they'll still cover my tuition and living expenses, I could save part of my paycheck instead of spending the whole thing every month.
As for graduate school, I've been trying to look outside of just the West Coast. Sheri, one of my co-workers/bosses, is going to graduate school in Illinois at Urbana-Champaign next year and she told me I should look at the university, cuz it was pretty cool. I looked at the site on a lark, and they actually have a really good program that matches my interests REALLY well. Like, they have faculty that do Japanese media studies and gender and transnational cultural flows. Omg. The University of Pittsburgh, University of Indiana, and Duke University were all really good, too. Sooo...I might be switching coasts, or moving to the middle-ish, at least for a while. We'll see. I'm also going to apply to the University of Hawaii Manoa, UCSB, and UCLA. So many choices.
Since everyone is graduating I've been thinking about the future and grad school and all that jazz. I'm considering dropping the double History/Fem Studies major down to a Fem Studies major and History minor so I can do school part time next year. I'd take like 5-10 units a quarter, work a lot, and be able to focus more on Japanese and media studies, which is technically what I want to do, anyway. I like history, but Feminist Studies at this school is closer to what I want to actually do, whereas history was a way to access Japanese culture. With my East Asian Studies minor, that's not really necessary anymore. I have to find out about financial aide for part time students, because if they'll still cover my tuition and living expenses, I could save part of my paycheck instead of spending the whole thing every month.
As for graduate school, I've been trying to look outside of just the West Coast. Sheri, one of my co-workers/bosses, is going to graduate school in Illinois at Urbana-Champaign next year and she told me I should look at the university, cuz it was pretty cool. I looked at the site on a lark, and they actually have a really good program that matches my interests REALLY well. Like, they have faculty that do Japanese media studies and gender and transnational cultural flows. Omg. The University of Pittsburgh, University of Indiana, and Duke University were all really good, too. Sooo...I might be switching coasts, or moving to the middle-ish, at least for a while. We'll see. I'm also going to apply to the University of Hawaii Manoa, UCSB, and UCLA. So many choices.
