checked and balanced.
soooo everyone. thx for voting in my poll. i disregarded all of your answers! haha no just kidding. i didn't do that. but i did just combine a bunch of stuff because i am insane.
first of all, i don't think that the next thing i want to do as far as my education goes is get my masters in design. i know that a bunch of you voted for that, rightly so, but i don't think i can do it right now. the thought of going back to design for two more years just.. doesn't interest me. the only way i would feel comfortable going back would be to do some kind of thesis on social responsibility in design and have it somehow involve protest and political design work. but like i said, i don't know. it will probably take me awhile to want to go back to that in the near future.
by the way, my goal time to go back to school is fall 2009. that would mean another two years of working here, which i am totally into, and then starting on something else. it will give me all the time i need to save a little, to study for the tests i'll have to take, and to really put effort into my applications. and it's also a good time frame to give me leeway to change my mind. haha. i know it's a long way off, but at the same time it isn't a long way off at all and it will be here and i'll be like 'oh shit hey what's up.'
two and a half years ago i got the idea in my head to go to law school, and that idea apparently has been hanging out in my brain ever since. so, in fall 2009, i think i want to actually get it together and go to law school. but, i don't want to just get a JD, because truthfully i don't want to be an attorney, i want to legislate !, so i am looking at dual JD/MA programs in public policy. mmm policy. haha. the program that really tipped me off was gwu's jd/ma in public policy with a concentration in womens studies. i know i would be paying through the nose to go to that school, and i know i would have to really bust my ass to get in, but that program combines all of my interests outside of design into one 4 year package.
this would mean that i would be 26 when i entered and 30 when i finally graduated, but if it's really what i want to do then i guess it doesn't matter how old i am. it's a scary thought to think of going back to school and basically restarting my entire career, but what the fuck, i'm only going to be here once so i'd better do everything i want while i can. it means taking the lsat and the gre, it means loans, it means a bunch of shit, but i know that i can do it if i want it badly enough.
i know that i must have some kind of starry-eyed idealism to think that i can possibly make a difference, but i also want to feel like i am giving something back, and i don't feel that way about design. it's been my problem with it for years now. and the more places i live, and the more things i see and the more people i meet, i realize that i want to work to help other people, even if it's only a very tiny help. and eventually i want my own show on msnbc. haha no just kidding. SORT OF.
ironically, i used to always joke that i'd never do anything my parents had done, but my dad got his masters in public administration, so sometimes the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. it just rolls a little bit further away.
so yeah. that's my deal. vote for me in 2014.
first of all, i don't think that the next thing i want to do as far as my education goes is get my masters in design. i know that a bunch of you voted for that, rightly so, but i don't think i can do it right now. the thought of going back to design for two more years just.. doesn't interest me. the only way i would feel comfortable going back would be to do some kind of thesis on social responsibility in design and have it somehow involve protest and political design work. but like i said, i don't know. it will probably take me awhile to want to go back to that in the near future.
by the way, my goal time to go back to school is fall 2009. that would mean another two years of working here, which i am totally into, and then starting on something else. it will give me all the time i need to save a little, to study for the tests i'll have to take, and to really put effort into my applications. and it's also a good time frame to give me leeway to change my mind. haha. i know it's a long way off, but at the same time it isn't a long way off at all and it will be here and i'll be like 'oh shit hey what's up.'
two and a half years ago i got the idea in my head to go to law school, and that idea apparently has been hanging out in my brain ever since. so, in fall 2009, i think i want to actually get it together and go to law school. but, i don't want to just get a JD, because truthfully i don't want to be an attorney, i want to legislate !, so i am looking at dual JD/MA programs in public policy. mmm policy. haha. the program that really tipped me off was gwu's jd/ma in public policy with a concentration in womens studies. i know i would be paying through the nose to go to that school, and i know i would have to really bust my ass to get in, but that program combines all of my interests outside of design into one 4 year package.
this would mean that i would be 26 when i entered and 30 when i finally graduated, but if it's really what i want to do then i guess it doesn't matter how old i am. it's a scary thought to think of going back to school and basically restarting my entire career, but what the fuck, i'm only going to be here once so i'd better do everything i want while i can. it means taking the lsat and the gre, it means loans, it means a bunch of shit, but i know that i can do it if i want it badly enough.
i know that i must have some kind of starry-eyed idealism to think that i can possibly make a difference, but i also want to feel like i am giving something back, and i don't feel that way about design. it's been my problem with it for years now. and the more places i live, and the more things i see and the more people i meet, i realize that i want to work to help other people, even if it's only a very tiny help. and eventually i want my own show on msnbc. haha no just kidding. SORT OF.
ironically, i used to always joke that i'd never do anything my parents had done, but my dad got his masters in public administration, so sometimes the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. it just rolls a little bit further away.
so yeah. that's my deal. vote for me in 2014.