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11-12-2012, 09:50 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 5,389
| What are your backup plans?
I mean, some of you must have backup plans in the event your plans with your current major fall through. What are your backup plans?
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11-12-2012, 10:39 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Michigan State '13; Michigan '15
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I have a terrible habit of never having a plan B. Plan A always seems to work out. Yes, this will bite me in the ***.
I'll let you know in 2-4 months when my grad school apps don't pan out the way I want them to lol.
Plan B for me is probably Americorps or similar program.
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11-12-2012, 11:08 PM
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#3 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2011
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Plan A was becoming some sort of biologist...until this semester. I hate everything to do with my Cell Bio class and realized for sure that I could not see myself working at a bench or a hood all day everyday.
Plan B: environmental biology. There's a wide variety of work, and the field is expanding where I live. Travel, lab, field and there's a lot of work that only requires a B.S. so I don't feel pressured to jump right into graduate school just to earn an acceptable wage.
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11-12-2012, 11:54 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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Plan A: becoming a physicist (where I live, what pay could come with a master's degree in physics is comparable to what engineers can earn; could have gone to a PhD in the US but inability to take the PGRE on time killed all my chances)
Plan B: special education. I know, completely different from physics, but will only be activated after graduation.
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11-13-2012, 01:24 AM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
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A back up plan?!? What is such a thing? Go hard or go home.
But more seriously, my plan is rather vague. There is an end goal and a few small goals on the end, but so much time in between that must still be figured out.
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11-13-2012, 01:45 AM
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#6 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: IA => TX
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Plan A: California
Plan B: Texas
Plan C: Somewhere NOT in the midwest....
in terms of what I'm studying, well I'll be graduating in a month, so we're way past the event horizon. I would like to get my doctorate and work in R&D, but first I'll have to see how my co-op turns out. I might change my mind - doubt it though.
Last edited by spectastic; 11-13-2012 at 02:01 AM.
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11-13-2012, 11:52 AM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Wake Forest University (Class of 2015)
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Plan A is presently go to grad school and become a professor of English.
Plan B is work for a non-profit organization, hopefully on the ground as a volunteer coordinator and not as a director of funding or anything.
Plan C is... cry myself to sleep for a while?
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11-13-2012, 12:17 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
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I don't have a plan B...probably because I don't even have a solid plan A. I mean, I guess my plan A is to graduate with a BA in psych, which I know I will be able to do (let's be honest, psych isn't a very hard major)...so...yeah...
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11-13-2012, 07:55 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2012
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My backup plan is an extreme change from physics/engineering...
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11-13-2012, 08:01 PM
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#10 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: UCONN '14
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Become a bum.
I honestly don't know. I barely have a Plan A.
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11-13-2012, 10:01 PM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Uh... Plan B? Should I have one of those?
Currently my dream is working in some sort of politics communications. Preferably doing research kind of a thing... But I also want to lobby perhaps. Maybe go to law school?
So seriously, I don't have a plan a... Not sure what I'd switch to major wise if my current one doesn't pan out.
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