"So, what are your plans for after graduation?"

Every time I go home each memeber of my family asks me what I'm going to do after graduation and each time I tell them that I'm going to graduate school. Then they shake their head at me. They just don't understand, probably because I'm going to be the first person to graduate college in my family, let alone go on to a more advanced degree.

They didn't understand, but I did, at least I thought I understood. I want more for myself. I don't want to be like them, stuck in their pathetic lives, never really getting anywhere yet contantly pushing forward.


Well, anyway, it's the Spring semester of my senior year and I'm graduating in less than 5 months with a B.S in Psychology counseling concentration and minors in French and Women's Studies. I have about a month or two before all of my graduate school applications have to be done (depending on deadlines!).

I'm absolutely terrified! There is so much to do and so little time. I have personal statements to write that have to be tailored to each school, I have to take the GRE (which I call the Grrrrrrrr), send out my transcripts (which I feel are lacking), and more. Plus I have to do this while I'm continuing to be a full-time student, conducting my own research project in an independent study, working two jobs (one of which is "part-time" 39 hours a week and the other is a work study job), attending the various club meetings that I'm involved in, organizing and directing The Vagina Monologues and putting together a week long string of events about ending violence against women.

How am I going to get everything done and stay sane?!? Well, the whole sane thing isn't really that important I guess, but how the hell am I going to get all of this done?

Setting up a schedule is the first thing that needs to be done...several schedules in fact. I need a GRE study schedule, a grad school search schedule, an application schedule, a class/meeting/work/practice schedule, a V-Day schedule...I don't know how I'm going to get everything done, but I know I will!

So, what are my plans for after graduation? I'm going to grad school!