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i beleive i have hit what i will call a mid-college crisis. i have had two very disturbing realization in the past 24 hours.
1) i haven't really done anything crazy since i've been in college. ok, there was that one time when i put the magazine rack ontop of the bus station. i guess that counts as a crazy thing. but that's only one. i've been here for two years and i only have one crazy story. so buffalo wild wings is having it's grand opening tomorrow at 11am. the first 250 people get free wings for a year (i've since learned that the deal isn't quite that sweet - it's more like 1 free order of 6 wings once a week for a year). this sounded like a perfect opportunity. i'll camp out with some friends and stay up all night and when it's all said and done, we get free wings. fuck class, we want wings. but noone would come with me. and when i realized that i couldn't get any of my friends to do something stupid and crazy with me, i think a little part of me died. this is college. college is made of those stupid crazy moments. my friends... don't do that.
2) i may have picked the wrong major, but it's now too late to change it. i have been helping cori do a lot of research about occupational therapy. and last night i decided that i have been doing a disproportionate amount of research for my own future. i did enough research to decide that i shouldn't go to grad/business school right out of college because most grad/business schools want you to have a few years of experience under your belt before applying (i tried telling cori this, but she won't listen to me). so last night i looked around for what i can do with a major in economics and international studies. long story short: not much at all. jobs for economics majors are very competitive, not paid well. allow me to use some economics to explain why that happens: there is such a large supply of economics majors now that employers can afford to pay them less because they know it's easy to find another one - excess supply of labor leads to a depression of wages. so i looked around for jobs as an international studies major, and they don't really exist. the best option i found (the greatest combination of how well it pays, and how much i want to do it) i think is currency trading. basically what that is, is a trading specialist, who speciality is helping people convert their currency from one to another. this is a new field, as the concepts of free exchange rates is only about 20 or 30 years old. wikipedia, here i come.
i'm bored. although, i'm a little entertained because goldfarb just came home. but i know that will turn into being incredibly annoyed and frustrated within 15 minutes.
and i kind of need to figure out what to do with my life.
1) i haven't really done anything crazy since i've been in college. ok, there was that one time when i put the magazine rack ontop of the bus station. i guess that counts as a crazy thing. but that's only one. i've been here for two years and i only have one crazy story. so buffalo wild wings is having it's grand opening tomorrow at 11am. the first 250 people get free wings for a year (i've since learned that the deal isn't quite that sweet - it's more like 1 free order of 6 wings once a week for a year). this sounded like a perfect opportunity. i'll camp out with some friends and stay up all night and when it's all said and done, we get free wings. fuck class, we want wings. but noone would come with me. and when i realized that i couldn't get any of my friends to do something stupid and crazy with me, i think a little part of me died. this is college. college is made of those stupid crazy moments. my friends... don't do that.
2) i may have picked the wrong major, but it's now too late to change it. i have been helping cori do a lot of research about occupational therapy. and last night i decided that i have been doing a disproportionate amount of research for my own future. i did enough research to decide that i shouldn't go to grad/business school right out of college because most grad/business schools want you to have a few years of experience under your belt before applying (i tried telling cori this, but she won't listen to me). so last night i looked around for what i can do with a major in economics and international studies. long story short: not much at all. jobs for economics majors are very competitive, not paid well. allow me to use some economics to explain why that happens: there is such a large supply of economics majors now that employers can afford to pay them less because they know it's easy to find another one - excess supply of labor leads to a depression of wages. so i looked around for jobs as an international studies major, and they don't really exist. the best option i found (the greatest combination of how well it pays, and how much i want to do it) i think is currency trading. basically what that is, is a trading specialist, who speciality is helping people convert their currency from one to another. this is a new field, as the concepts of free exchange rates is only about 20 or 30 years old. wikipedia, here i come.
i'm bored. although, i'm a little entertained because goldfarb just came home. but i know that will turn into being incredibly annoyed and frustrated within 15 minutes.
and i kind of need to figure out what to do with my life.