In the Year 2000

Someday I will have a home computer again and I will learn about all the fancy new things on the internet. I will upload photos with ease. I might post photos on this very blog. I will read blogs about design and craftiness until my eyes cross. I will watch videos and other things that have sound. I will join my generation and not feel like such a technophobe ruralite. It will be great.

Life Planning. Gross.

I finally got motivated enough to buy a GRE study book and start taking the online prep course. My long and painful history of procrastination had finally come to an end. Another year would not pass while I vowed "I WILL take the GRE by the end of the year."

And then I started thinking about an MBA. Evidently there are all sorts of crazy MBA programs out there in nonprofit management, international organizations, and even sustainable development. And I've only been searching for a short while.

Anyway, this has completely derailed my GRE plans because if I go for the MBA I'll need to take the GMAT instead -- which, from what I can tell so far, is much harder and more expensive ($250). But I definitely need to do some more reading, searching before committing to anything.

I was looking forward to the funness of grad-studentdom; absorbing courses about gender & globalization, revolutionary movements, geographies of the developing world; instead, I might be doing stats and making business plans. But for some reason I have a feeling that this is a good new direction to consider. Rather than just feeding my love of liberal arts goodness, I'll have some concrete skills to apply to organizations or maybe my own business; oh, and I'll be paying off my business school loans FOREVER.

Do any of you know anything about this stuff??