today i went to barnes & noble and bought a book on the g.r.e. test prep. as i was flipping through each book i couldn't help but feel like, "wow. this is it. i am going to grad school. this is the next big chapter of my life." exciting. first though i have to take the g.r.e.
i have continued to do research on schools. i came across this awesome european program for humanitarian aid that involves 7 universities around the world. the program itself is only 16 months long. there are 4 semesters or quarters, i think. the first week of the program the students take off to the university of warsaw for an intensive program. they then return to do the first semester at their home university. the first semester is the same at all participating universities. the second semester you apply to another school and study there. you then come back to the home university for your third semester, however, you can also go to another university, if you wish. during the summer you go do research abroad supervised by professors. the last semester you work on your theses. the school i'm looking at is the university college of dublin. tuition is less than american schools but after i added in the price of this special program plus the graduate diploma (which i will need to get before admission to the masters program) plus cost of living for three years, it's just as expensive as its american counterparts. another thing i don't understand yet is that each semester, you take around 6 classes?! i wonder if the classes are as intensive as the classes in american universities.
although it seems like i have already determined my course of study, i haven't. international development or humanitarian studies? some schools offer humanitarian studies as almost a minor, there are a few classes regarding this study. other schools don't offer humanitarian studies at all. sigh.
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