I feel some kind of disgusting relief, for i know what i am going to do with the next 3 years of my life. 3 years, that's pretty far in advance for me to plan considering i call at 8 at night to check if i work the next morning at 5:30. Yes, super planning ahead. As we speak i am procrastinating...on sleeping. One of the things i love most in this world. But i am willing to sacrifice it for my friends...but that's a whole other story.
I have mapped out my plans for college which now happen to be more complicated than they were before...far more complicated. I found out a rough, but fairly accurate estimate of the total cost to go to MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art & Design). I know i want to go to this school, so don't try and talk me out of it. I have a plan! When i received this estimate, it was hard to swallow. It's a lot of money, and i know everyone goes into debt and i had basically gotten to the point where i didn't care how far into debt i went. It's even so much that with FAFSA i may get money, that which with almost any other college i won't because on paper my parents make a lot of money even though they can't afford to pay for school. So its' a high price.
Anyways, after hearing that and that they don't accept transfer science or math credits, i started thinking about how i was already 12 credits short of an associates degree. That's basically an easy semester's worth of a bunch of beginning arts credits i can take somewhere else. Then i also need to make up for my 8 math and science credits that won't transfer there. Thus, i had decided about 2 or so weeks ago to go to Normandale for another year next year, two light semesters and it's a minor fraction of what it would cost me to go to MCAD. So i could save myself a BOATLOAD of money by just suffering another year at Normandale.
Then things got more interesting. I want to study abroad in Paris, France but MCAD doesn't offer Paris as a location. They do however offer Ireland. So i was trying to figure out how i could go to Paris, because Normandale has very few study abroad options and Paris is definitely not going to be an option for some time there. Hence, i thought about the school my lovely cousin is studying abroad in Scotland through, U-W River Falls! I figured i can go there to go to France. They have a very flexible program for study abroad. You have to have a minimum of 60 credits, which i will if i go to Normandale and take a 12 credit semester next fall (2008). I would take french 3 then too! Maybe a culture class.
So i'd have an opportunity to go to France before transfering to MCAD in the fall of 2009. At which point i could remain in Minneapolis for the fall semester and in the spring of 2010 i could study abroad in Ireland through MCAD. Then my senior year i would finish everything up at MCAD.
I obviously will talk this over with an MCAD admissions person before I get my hopes up, but for now it's relieving!
