Glutton for Punishment

Saturday, September 25, 2010

I've decided that I'm going to do it. I'm going to spend 25 minutes of my hard won weekend, and apply for a MS program. Why? I just quit being a student, why the hell would I want to submit myself to something like this again? Short answer, because I want to.

The long answer is that at the basic core of me, I like to learn. I like to learn new things. I've always been that way. New instrument? New language? New technique? Yep, yep and yep. While I'm still paying off student loans, work will pay enough per year for me to do this in a few years, and realistically, I don't have as many loans as one would think for as long as I was in school.

So what's this new MS gonna be in? Well, here's the sticky part. I was kind of thinking of getting an MBA, but those people freak me the fuck out. I mean, seriously, it's all freaking common sense and greed. There are some programs locally that do a biotech MBA, but, they would require me to take things like 'Molecular Biology' which I'm qualified to teach, so that's a no-go. I found one that's a management for engineers program. Interestingly enough, I have all of the pre-required classes (who was stupid for taking differential equations and linear algebra as electives now, huh?). I think that this would be an interesting mix of science, engineering and management, the former to keep me sane, the latter two to entertain me.

So hopefully, as of January 2011 I will be a student again. At my undergrad institution, with, surprisingly enough, teachers I had as an undergrad. It's been 11 years since I was there, and I've gone significantly grey since then, but I'm hoping that they will remember the good things about me, and not the 'she speaks her mind, doesn't take no for an answer' part of me, because grad school beat that out of me.