UPenn vs. Notre Dame

onimpulse
Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:50:09 +0000

@morgan

Oh my God I am so relieved to see that I’m not the only one making this decision, haha.

Have you made your decision yet? I mean, I know nothing about what kind of an opportunity being accepted to Huntsman is, but for what it’s worth I’m increasingly finding value in Polonius’ words to Laertes in Hamlet: “To thine own self be true.” Right now it seems I’m searching for a be-all-and-end-all reason to go to Penn — which I may yet find — but Notre Dame… damn, it seems like it has what I want.

And if it helps at all, I myself am interested in a career in the foreign service — albeit the Canadian foreign service. In fact I spent a week in Ottawa last month that focused on International Relations, and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs told me I didn’t necessarily need a degree in International Relations… But that’s besides the point. You know as well as I that UPenn almost automatically opens doors career-wise. No one can deny that. But as blorgit said in his post earlier, it’s not like ND closes any doors. If one works hard at ND, then it’s definitely possible that they could get into a top-tier grad school and from there make a ton of career connections…

This is a very tough decision, haha. We should keep in touch.