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So I've been looking at potential directions I can take after university, as some of you may know. Some of these routes are a little bleak (for example, doing nothing with my degree is probably going to lead down a path of sadness and woe where I work for minimum wage. While this might be okay (see: working for Chapters and calling Simon about 'official business' on company time), it's probably not a path worth considering. After all, I can work part-time and harrass Simon at work just as easily.

A step that I'm looking into a little more is grad school. While harukami has horror stories (or at least a horrific work load) at York, here are a few places and degrees I have up for consideration.

( This list gets long, but please look at it and offer opinions? )

It's a pretty long list, but... those are the programs that caught my eye. A lot of TV and radio-related ones, which I don't think I expected... but I suppose it's a way of combining performance with writing, and I think I'd enjoy that. The law ones, I would actually find interesting - the issue is really workload, and the fact that I would not want to be a lawyer in the field I would pursue (criminal law). Teaching is one of those things - I don't think I could handle kids, but I could probably teach adults. Beyond that, culture and religion are up there.

I could always go back to UW for another four years... eight years... twelve years... forever?

What do you think? What are the top three on that list that scream 'Alex' to you? Three you'd like to see me go through? Words of encouragement before I have a mental breakdown? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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"If you think posting the Ten Commandments is going to stop violence in schools... you think posting 'Employees Must Wash Hands' is gonna keep piss out of your food. That's what I don't get about religious types. What schmuck doesn't know 'thou shalt not kill'? And why do you need to know that you shouldn't kill 'cause God might get angry? Why not 'I don't want to kill because it probably doesn't feel good'? ...I think the best way to end high school violence is to tell tenth- and eleventh-graders that... high school ends. That's all you really need to let 'em know! That 'whatever vulnerability, whatever eccentricity that you feel now is the weakness that allows the lion to chase after the lame, you know, yak... it ends." --Jon Stewart