• Mon. Nov 4th, 2024

Maybe it’s a little premature to talk about graduation, but my stomach has been churning since the quarter began.  You see, I started looking at post-Sinclair universities in January, and it’s a tough world out there.  For the first time in my life, I’m nervous about applying to school.

One reason is the relative scarcity of my field of study.  I want to study media convergence, or the ways radio, television, print and the Internet can work together to convey messages.  When I searched “media convergence degree” on Google, I only got 228,000 results (compared to 4.59 million results for “media convergence”).  Of those results, the ninth was the first to actually be a degree at a university.  I’ve searched for weeks and found only a handful of schools that take this degree seriously.

Another reason I’m nervous is the cost of a four-year school.  I found a media convergence-like program at the University of Dayton.  However, their $28,690 tuition and fees really intimidate me.  My family didn’t even make that much last year!  How can I justify paying that much for college?

The thing that really makes me sweat is the pressure.  Once I graduate Sinclair, I feel like the burden will be on me to succeed (though I’m sure in reality this is already the case).  The thought of spending tens of thousands of dollars on a little-known degree and possibly screwing up makes my head spin.

So I need to not screw up.  I need to find an affordable school.  I need to get scholarships.  I need to get grants.  I need to keep a high grade point average.

Which means I need to study.  I need to do well this quarter.  I need to do better next quarter.  I need to turn in that 20 point assignment because if I don’t I could get a B instead of an A, which would drop my GPA, which would mean less scholarship money, which means I’ve failed already!

AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!

Sorry about that.  I didn’t mean to ramble.  I’m just having a case of four-year school flutters.