Thanks for your reply! I do know that grad school is something I’m pretty much going to have to do, as well as something that personally I’ll be going into debt for. That’s something I have accepted but I do hope will be manageable due to lack of undergrad debt. Although if I get into the peace core, which is something I’ve always been interested in there are multiple grad schools I could attend for free (notre dame etc), so part of me is also hoping that will all work out.
Although I am appropriately worried about affording the ‘paying my dues internship’ period of working in IR, I am first more afraid of simply not being able to get a worthwhile internship that will help me in the future. As it is a very competitive and over saturated field.