Becoming Unsure about Future Plans

NorthernMom61
Tue, 05 Feb 2019 06:21:59 +0000

Deep breath. One day at a time. You are trying to think of everything at once from today through PhD and it is overwhelming you. To earn the degree you are working on, you are going to have to take some classes that you aren’t interested in. That’s just the way it is. Do the best you can today, then tomorrow, then the next day so that you keep your options open.

If you still want to apply for PhD programs in the fall, research which programs that you are interested in over the summer, do some GRE prep over the summer so that you can take it in the fall. A lot of people who do PhD programs take a little time off after undergraduate school to work and save money and have the time to research programs and take the GRE. You don’t have to compress it all if it’s too much.

Perhaps you can even find a job at your university over the summer that has some relationship to the field that you want to study in graduate school.

Don’t think of it all at once. It really is a step by step process.