The Next Next Step

As my undergraduate career races toward its terminus (I love that word), I've begun doing quite a bit of thinking about the next step. Obviously the first LOGICAL step is a job. That's a given, and that will be taken care of (Lord willing) by December. But after that, there's the NEXT next step:

Grad school.

And of course this begs the obvious question: grad school WHERE? Much to the dismay of literally my entire family (they try their best to be excited for me, God bless 'em, but there's a reason no one in our family has ever gone into acting), I am more than slightly interested in pursuing graduate schools in Germany. Actually, "slightly interested" is a bit of an understatement.

"Hell-bent" might be more appropriate.

Yes, it's that time of life again: the frenzied application filling-out, the applying for scholarships, the essay writing, the interviews, the crazy research....it's going to be like applying for undergrad all over again. Only way more stressful. And with the added excitement/terror factor of a move to a foreign country. Again.

But darn it if that isn't what makes it one heckuva kick in the pants.