Future Plans

[geminigirl]

Ever since I was like 12, I've had my eyes on getting my PhD. I had no idea in what, although if you look at what I do, what I've done...public health is overwhelmingly sensible. And I like it...it's been sort of in the back of mine as a possibility for a while, and more and more it's moving forward and settling up front as "that's the right thing to do."

For some reason, it's been making me mopey today. There's just no way I'll be able to afford going back to school. Not now, not for another twenty years at least. Which is an incredibly depressing thought. I suppose it's likely that I could find some funding to go back eventually, but it looks so bleak.

There aren't that many PhD programs in what I want to do...and I'm kind of into the idea of staying the the Boston-DC corridor, which is in and of itself another challenge. It doesn't hugely limit my choices...

But it's just depressing...the whole thing.

Comments

[moonchsr.livejournal.com]

What do you want to get your PhD in?

[geminigirl]

Public Health, with a focus in health education/behavioral science kind of stuff.

Or social work, which is what my masters is in, with the same kind of focus.

Re:

[moonchsr.livejournal.com]

Ahh. Sounds cool :) Good luck with it!

[melebeth]

*pfui*

Noone should have to pay for a Ph.D. (this is hard science girl talking, I know, but it's now ingrained in my very being) So we'll find you money and not let that stop you!!!!