Class selections

Okay, I will admit: the whole "reading maps" thing was rude. Moving along. Actually, everyone was fairly responsible and compentent on the trip; we never really lost anybody for an extended period of time, which meant minimal worries, which made life really nicer than it would have been otherwise. Apologies.

Internet is down at Medag. We are again reminded of how reliant we are on the tubes. Life is way more boring without them, and my email box fills up way too fast when I am getting online only 2 or 3 times a day, instead of the normal constant checking. Also, the google reader fills up too. Too many things to do; too little time with the tubes here at JCU.

Class this week was painless, once again. I have five papers to write over the next two weekends, but they are reasonable, I suppose. I want to finish them off so I can travel to London over Thanksgiving weekend and then Budapest the following weekend without worries.

The big development of the week is that the classes for next semester have been released. This is leading to the annual Jamie McGinnis Existential Crisis (copyright 2005). I, of course, have no idea what I want to do with my life. Actually, I am currently doing the only thing I have ever wanted to do with my life. It's going really well, but unfortunately it seems that there's not really much of a future in it. So, pretty much, I am at a crossroads. I have some options.

Option 1: I could do Physics 1 next semester, Organic Chem next summer (this is recommended by Shauna, a girl who is studying here now), Physics 2 and bio senior year, and I would have all the premed requirements. I would have to take a year off after school to take the MCAT/ apply to med schools, but that isn't the worst thing in the world. Doing this would not really eat into my schedule, because I'm doing fine on my major. If ND made me do some science electives to pick up the Arts and Letters Preprofessional major, I would probably have to go an extra semester. I don't think they would make me do this.

Option 2: I could try to pick up a Poly Sci major as well. I would probably have to overload, because I would have to take 9 poly sci classes, 3 econ classes, write my thesis, and 1 art class before graduating. This is still not unreasonable, because even if I took a normal amount of classes, I would have 15 classes left before graduation. It's certainly doable. With this option, I have no idea what I would do next summer. This is what I call the Law School-likely option.

Option 3: I could simply finish out my Econ major. This would be unbelievably easy. I would have 3 econ classes, my thesis, and an art history class to graduate. Spacing this out over three semesters, I could do this in my sleep. If I do this, I really have no reason to go to 2nd semester next year, because I will almost certainly be done by next December. This is the Law School/private sector/ econ grad school/ minimal-thought-required option. Here I would probably try to get an internship with some consulting firm over the summer, to see if I like that.

Usually, I am fairly decisive. Not with this. Any thoughts? Leave some comments, or email jmcginni@nd.edu.