So, What Are You Doing Now?

What am I doing now? It’s not entirely clear. In the short term, I’m freelancing and keeping an eye out for a decent web dev job. (If you know of any, let me know.) But yes, I do plan to go to grad school - it’s just not entirely clear when, where, or for what. My BA is in philosophy, of course, but I also minored in computer science. All my CS friends think I’m nuts for considering a PhD in the humanities, and all my philosophy friends think I’m nuts for considering an MS in computer science. (Not because it’s computer science, since most people agree that’s at least more likely to get me a decent job, but rather because there’s little to no funding for MS programs.) About all I can say about it right now is that I’m more comfortable with the idea of leaping into a master’s program than I am a doctoral program, but I think most of that is residual exhaustion from my senior year. What’s likely to happen is that I’ll work for a while and then apply to grad schools during this coming year. And that’s fine with me, even if it does mean it’s probably time to break out the GRE study books.

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