TWFT Mirror Mirror on The Wall...

I suppose the title isn't 100% accurate but I couldn't come up with a pithy saying for a crystal ball... give me a break, I'm tired.

As I approach my senior year, I realize that I am going to be faced with the decision of what to do after graduation sooner than I had hoped. I know that I want to continue my education and pursue at least my masters and perhaps even my doctorate and after a great deal of soul searching I think I actually know what I want to do with the next few years of my life. It is strange to be at my age and looking down the path and not knowing where it leads, even though I know what it looks like.

The problem really is that I don't know how to begin to shop for graduate programs. I ended up in the undergraduate program that I am in mostly out of default. The local university offered a degree in what I wanted to study so, I enrolled. Now that I am looking graduate (and potentially post-graduate) schools I feel like I should actually find the one that will challenge me the most and give me the exact education that I hope for.

When I was young, I had dreams of attending Oxford. I probably saw it in a movie once and fell in love with the idea of studying at one of the oldest and most prestigious schools in the world. Back then, if I had my druthers, I would be Niles; a man with an Oxford education and a Mercedes, living in a old real wood paneled apartment with antiques and a gourmet kitchen. Ah, that was going to be the life.

Instead, I have chosen to take the creative route and now after years of drifting through a degree that really hasn't always challenged me I am faced with the real decision of where to go from here. I have found a number of Universities that offer a program that I am interested in I just have to make the decision of where I want to go and push myself to do what I have to do to make it happen.

Now is the time to make it happen. Now is the time to decide am I a man or a mouse.

That is today's Warm and Fuzzy Thought.