u/WavePowerful

Hello! I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in May and decided to take a gap year between undergrad and grad school. So I can work and save some money up before going back to school. I’m starting the process to email my old professors if they would like to write recommendations letters. And starting to go through comments on an academic paper I want to use for my application. I’m also planning on emailing the chair or a faculty member of the program to ask more questions about the program/get my name out there. This was advice given to me by my cousin who got a Masters in what I’m going to pursue.

My plan is to go to grad school in Fall ‘27. I just wanted to see if there was any advice before I start this process of getting ready to apply to grad school. I can be about grad school itself, financial aid, application process, ect.

Hello everyone! I (22f) have been feeling a lot of emotions about not going back to college as I see my friends go back. I graduated this past Spring. And it hurts me to not be there with them. Every time I feel like I’m not sad about it anymore, I fall back into the hole of wishing for those days back. Since after graduation my life has been flipped upside down. I had to quit the job I love because my old boss couldn’t offer me full time. And I work a job that I don’t like at all.

I know life gets better. It just doesn’t feel like it right now.

I (22F) graduated with two bachelor’s degrees in May. My goals in life is to get through grad school to get my masters and maybe a PhD (after year or more gaps). And work a job I hopefully like enough to just have some money. I want to work in a museum in the archives. I had a year and a half internship that didn’t lead to a full time position offer. Unpaid internship, I’ll add too. And the job I was working all my senior year couldn’t offer me a full time position, I loved working there. It was an office position at an attorney’s office. My old boss was great and it was a perfect job to keep around that would work with a school schedule for when I made the leap to go back.

So that left me with the unfortunate experience of looking for a job in this climate. And I needed something full time due to the paychecks with the hours I was working was less and $200 every two weeks. It took me almost 2 months before receiving an offer from a daycare. I’ve worked at a daycare in the past and didn’t like it. But desperate times call for desperate measures. It’s all that was offered to me and there wasn’t shit in my area. Well, my background check took longer than expected because the place I got my finger prints done didn’t send it to the right place. Today I received the call that they got my background check and I’m clear to start tomorrow if I wanted. Now here I am starting tomorrow after a month of unemployment. Dreading to start at a field I don’t want to be in.

I’m living at home in the middle of nowhere. Which I’m grateful that my mom is letting me live here rent free and has helped me during this rough patch. And my partner will be moving in with us in a 2 ish weeks. Also very grateful to get a job that pays me more than any other job, I’ve had in the past. It sucks right now, but I keep trying to tell myself that it will get better. It doesn’t feel like that right now.

Thank you for letting me vent.