<p>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?</p>
<p>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 ***. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Plan B for me is probably Americorps or similar program.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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)</p>
<p>Plan B: special education. I know, completely different from physics, but will only be activated after graduation.</p>
<p>A back up plan?!? What is such a thing? Go hard or go home.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Plan A: California</p>
<p>Plan B: Texas</p>
<p>Plan C: Somewhere NOT in the midwest…</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Plan A is presently go to grad school and become a professor of English.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>Plan C is… cry myself to sleep for a while?</p>
<p>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…</p>
<p>My backup plan is an extreme change from physics/engineering…</p>
<p>Become a bum. </p>
<p>I honestly don’t know. I barely have a Plan A.</p>
<p>Uh… Plan B? Should I have one of those?</p>
<p>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? </p>
<p>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.</p>