So I had this very nice plan: graduate from b-school in spring '05. Work at my current job through September, giving me the summer (which is much less work-intensive) to look for a new job while not in classes. Whoever takes my current job would start late September/early October as school starts.

New wrinkle: setting aside courses that meet Friday night or Saturday at 9am (because we all know that I simply wouldn't do it, and there are too many weekends I want to be elsewhere), there are no courses I want to take. That is, eliminating courses I don't have the pre-reqs for, that don't meet on the weekends, and I have already taken, there are 7 courses left. Of those, one is a course I was vaguely interested in taking someday, but with a different prof. None of them count toward either of my concentrations. So basically I have the choice between taking two courses that I have no interest in and count as electives, or else graduating at least a quarter later than I planned.

I checked, and none of the graduate divisions offer summer courses that I'm qualified for. The only summer courses I can find that aren't college-level are independent studies, study abroad, thesis-writing, or over my head.

ARGHHH.

So the question is: do I take courses I'm not interested in, or do I take an extra quarter to graduate and screw up all my plans?

It would be easier if I felt that leaving my job was feasible at any time other than September.

ARGHHH.
- posted by Heidi @ 6:18 PM