<p>I’m in such an overwhelming state of despair. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life or in the next 5 years of my life and thanks to the merciless economy, I’ve been told I’d better figure out exactly whatever it is I want to do…RIGHT NOW. I’ve narrowed my schools down to Penn nursing and Princeton, Penn is free for me, but I truly feel I am the most unlikely of nurses. I’m not particularly compassionate and for the most part, though fascinating, people bother me. Also, I don’t like hospitals at all. However, at Princeton I’ll have the freedom to pursue a useless liberal arts degree in an academic DisneyWorld! In the past I wanted to be a writer/journalist/?, but because of my lassitude and deep seated fears I’ve neglected that most noble of dreams. Oh, someone help me! What should I do?</p>
<p>Nurses are in high demand and you do not have to work in a hospital. There are many jobs for nurses!</p>
<p>pton then grad school?</p>
<p>Trying to decide what you want to do with your life is hard enough sophomore year of college, don’t let that decision be made for you in high school before you’ve had the opportunity to explore other options. If you are unsure (and it certainly sounds like you are) I wouldn’t commit yourself to nursing school and effectively lock in your career decision. If worse comes to worst and you come here and find out that you want to be in the medical profession after all, you can always go pre-med.</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better, I still don’t know what I want to do, and I went to Princeton almost 20 years ago!</p>
<p>sorry tangentspace, that really does not make me feel better…I feel worse…</p>
<p>wow…penn nursing is fine if you’re really into nursing, but princeton is princeton, the best school in the world for undergraduate education</p>
<p>you’ll have many opportunities to go into any field while studying at Princeton, or you can be a nurse your whole life…you decide</p>
<p>And don’t be worried about the job market, again you’re going to Princeton so the alumni network is incredible. The job market will be fine after you graduate, 4 years down the road. There will be competition for wall st. jobs, but a princeton degree is a ticket to getting hired at most places. And for the people who do a “useless liberal arts degree” in “academic disneyland”, at the very least Princeton often makes sure they get a job in one of the many nonprofits they sponsor…it’s not an ibanking salary, but nonetheless its a job if that’s what you’re worried about</p>
<p>Oh yeah and at Princeton there is a 95% admit rate for their grads into medical school, doctor > > > nurse</p>
<p>Go to Penn nursing if you want to be a nurse, go to Princeton if you want to be the next president, supreme court justice, Fortune 500 CEO, or intellectual giant</p>
<p>i forgot that you already must have decided, what did you choose?</p>
<p>From Princeton, you can go just about anywhere. What I heard at Preview from the physics department is that their physics graduates aren’t limited to just that field - they have an amazing acceptance rate at business, medical, and law schools. Unless you do engineering, you don’t quite have to specialize just yet.</p>
<p>yeah I chose Princeton…</p>
<p>WOW you got into Princeton and u sound like the most ungrateful individual I have ever listened to… relax… Ur freshman year is meant for you to explore your majors and understand what it is that you want to do, not sit around whining because u got into one of the most prestigous schools in the world… jeez</p>
<p>I agree with overachiever92. We are incredibly privileged and ought to appreciate it. My godfather said to me “You have a responsibility now. There were 8,000+ other students who REALLY wanted to go to Princeton and you had similar credentials to you and got thin envelopes - YOU got the fat one. Not that you don’t deserve it - you do - but so did they, and just as much if not more than you. So your responsibility is to make the most out of this opportunity and not waste a moment whining about anything. Anytime this is hard, just remember that there are thousands of students who would switch places with you in a 100th of a second.” I think this is good advice and I only hope I can live by it for my 4 years at pton and for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>@bluefooted booby
GREAT CHOICE!!! You’ll love it, and if money is REALLY tight for your parents, the finaid office will likely understand and adjust your grant package accordingly. Princeton (unlike some other ivies) is extremely generous with financial aid. And btw, GREAT NAME!</p>
<p>In a way your godfather is right, but if you keep thinking with that mentality you won’t be able to enjoy college at all… Just relax and enjoy the ride, and don’t feel like you’re in a position where it’s mandatory to cure cancer after being an undergrad… you got in, good for you, the other 8000 students will move on with their lives.</p>
<p>Overachiever 92, you’re definitely right in pegging me as the ungrateful type…so I’m not offended…I needed your humbling words 
And I guess I was whining because for so long I’ve wanted something as great as Princeton to happen to me and when it did I was in disbelief…and still am. Regardless of the potentially terrible things that could happen to me, things that’d probably be of my own doing i.e. pessimistic outlook, I’ll know that rebounding is crucial because there are too few great opportunities to be wasted on negative individuals. Although, I myself would ascribe said negativity to having consistently been disappointed and hurt :(</p>
<p>PrincetonWalnut, I agree :D</p>
<p>What are your stats bluefooted booby?</p>