Carnegie Mellon University 2010. Or 2011 if I get my BS and MBA in 5 years.
Ambitious, yes, I know. Well, I'm hardworking and usually reach my goals :) so hopefully this will be the same. I'm excited. I finally decided and sent in the money today. All this hard work in high school paid off. I'll carry my work ethic with me... along with fond (and not so fond) memories of Georgia! :)
Funny. I was born in Pittsburgh, and now I'm going back!
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
I don't know if $100,000+ is worth it for an undergraduate education.
My cheapest options right now are public schools- Georgia Tech and UGA. Good schools but I do have acceptances to UNC-Chapel Hill, Case Western, UCLA, and Carnegie Mellon. However they will cost at least $100,000 from the pocket of my parents (I have financial aid, well, except from UCLA, in the form of grants, scholarships, and the lovable fake money called loans). I think that no matter what major/careers I end up choosing, graduate school is a must. But that means more money.
Education is expensive. Well I know that having no education will ultimately make people poorer. Do I just have a too-narrow-minded viewpoint on this?
I hear about the Chinese kids in my community who were here 10 years ago. Not many of them stayed instate. A lot of them (including my own boyfriend) went to prestigious schools like UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Berkeley, etc. for their undergraduate educations. Then you focus on today's community (the one I grew up with) - they're brilliant yes but they all seemed to have stayed here in Georgia. Interesting trend... I don't know, sometimes I feel like I should break the mold. I also feel like I didn't work my butt off only to end up at UGA. UGA is not a bad school, especially with Honors program and so on, but it seems like everyone ends up there. If I knew I was going to end up going there, I probably wouldn't have lost all those hours of sleep.
My cheapest options right now are public schools- Georgia Tech and UGA. Good schools but I do have acceptances to UNC-Chapel Hill, Case Western, UCLA, and Carnegie Mellon. However they will cost at least $100,000 from the pocket of my parents (I have financial aid, well, except from UCLA, in the form of grants, scholarships, and the lovable fake money called loans). I think that no matter what major/careers I end up choosing, graduate school is a must. But that means more money.
Education is expensive. Well I know that having no education will ultimately make people poorer. Do I just have a too-narrow-minded viewpoint on this?
I hear about the Chinese kids in my community who were here 10 years ago. Not many of them stayed instate. A lot of them (including my own boyfriend) went to prestigious schools like UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Berkeley, etc. for their undergraduate educations. Then you focus on today's community (the one I grew up with) - they're brilliant yes but they all seemed to have stayed here in Georgia. Interesting trend... I don't know, sometimes I feel like I should break the mold. I also feel like I didn't work my butt off only to end up at UGA. UGA is not a bad school, especially with Honors program and so on, but it seems like everyone ends up there. If I knew I was going to end up going there, I probably wouldn't have lost all those hours of sleep.
