Stagnant and confused
Two of my best friends from college recently finished graduate school. I had always planned going back to school, and really thought I'd just take a year or two to decide what direction I wanted to take before committing to a program. I still can't commit.
I'm having trouble picking a program. It's not that I have a huge variety of interests. In fact, everything I want to study relates to my other interests in some way. But I have yet to find a school with a master's degree flexible enough to take all my interests into account.
I'll wake up on Monday with my love languages rising to the top of my list of likes, and I start leaning toward the study of linguistics. Maybe pure research. Maybe bilingualism and language acquisition. Maybe I could solve the problems of illiteracy.
Then on Tuesday, I'll wake up considering the plight of people in the underdeveloped world and I start to think about how I can help, beyond helping them all read. I think I...