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K so, apparently my brain can only process school work between the hours of 10 pm and 4 am. Which unfortunately does not mesh with my class and work schedule. Anyway.
I have a dilemma. I tend to only make posts these days when I'm looking for advice, haha... but it's kind of an important dilemma.
Last week I had an epiphany. The Good Lord came to me in a sea of white light floating on a cloud, and she told me that if I go to law school I will end up jumping off a bridge by the age of 30. The creative part of my brain will wither and die and I will be left a bitter, haggard, cynical shell of a human being.
"So God," I asked, "What should I do with my life instead? What career path can I take that will allow me to use my intellectual capacities AND my creativity and writing skills?"
And the Good Lord God revealed Herself to me in the form of the webpage for the Master of Journalism program at Ryerson.
The program is designed for people like me with a university degree but zero to minimal experience in journalism. It's a combination of academic/theoretical courses with practical, hands on work with industry professionals. You get to do a major project. It's only $6000 a year (compared to 12 grand for law school) with a guaranteed T.A. position. It's in downtown Toronto.
JOURNALISM!!! How did I not think of this before? Politics! Creative license! Writing! Travel!
So obviously, I'm applying for the Masters of Journalism program at Ryerson after I take a year off. That's not the dilemma. Although it's really fucking annoying to go through the extremely painful and stressful application process AGAIN.
The dilemma is that to guarantee my spot in University of Ottawa Law for Fall of 2008, I have to pay a $500 deposit by May 14.
I don't know if you've noticed, but I change my mind a lot. But I don't think I'm going to change my mind about this. I think that even if everything falls through and I don't get in at Ryerson and am left with no schooling prospects and no job, I still won't want to go to law school.
However, U of Ottawa is a sure thing. Having a sure thing is good. $500 is not a lot of money in the long run. But in the short run, it IS a lot of money. It's 2 months rent (at team summercamp prices, anyway). It's an entirely new spring AND summer wardrobe. It's a thousand boxes of kraft dinner. It's a plane ticket to Guatemala.
So... to pay or not to pay? Thoughts, feelings?
I have a dilemma. I tend to only make posts these days when I'm looking for advice, haha... but it's kind of an important dilemma.
Last week I had an epiphany. The Good Lord came to me in a sea of white light floating on a cloud, and she told me that if I go to law school I will end up jumping off a bridge by the age of 30. The creative part of my brain will wither and die and I will be left a bitter, haggard, cynical shell of a human being.
"So God," I asked, "What should I do with my life instead? What career path can I take that will allow me to use my intellectual capacities AND my creativity and writing skills?"
And the Good Lord God revealed Herself to me in the form of the webpage for the Master of Journalism program at Ryerson.
The program is designed for people like me with a university degree but zero to minimal experience in journalism. It's a combination of academic/theoretical courses with practical, hands on work with industry professionals. You get to do a major project. It's only $6000 a year (compared to 12 grand for law school) with a guaranteed T.A. position. It's in downtown Toronto.
JOURNALISM!!! How did I not think of this before? Politics! Creative license! Writing! Travel!
So obviously, I'm applying for the Masters of Journalism program at Ryerson after I take a year off. That's not the dilemma. Although it's really fucking annoying to go through the extremely painful and stressful application process AGAIN.
The dilemma is that to guarantee my spot in University of Ottawa Law for Fall of 2008, I have to pay a $500 deposit by May 14.
I don't know if you've noticed, but I change my mind a lot. But I don't think I'm going to change my mind about this. I think that even if everything falls through and I don't get in at Ryerson and am left with no schooling prospects and no job, I still won't want to go to law school.
However, U of Ottawa is a sure thing. Having a sure thing is good. $500 is not a lot of money in the long run. But in the short run, it IS a lot of money. It's 2 months rent (at team summercamp prices, anyway). It's an entirely new spring AND summer wardrobe. It's a thousand boxes of kraft dinner. It's a plane ticket to Guatemala.
So... to pay or not to pay? Thoughts, feelings?