There are a few reasons.
- I want to know everything, or at least the absolute limits of what I can know.
- I refuse to take as many units as I took this semester. I need more not-class-or-classwork time.
- I am definitely taking gymnastics and I’m iffy on self defense.
- Some of the classes are only offered once every other year.
- I want to take intro dance (but it’s 3 units)
- I’m still determining what I want to do with my life, and the related question of which program I want to pursue.
- I have like 3 prerequisites to go before I’m totally done with my MPP requirements
- MURP stuff ties in beautifully with the research I’m doing now, but will commit me to its pre-reqs for the next year and a half, much of which I am indifferent to.
- Energy policy, under the Science, Technology, and Enviromental Policy program sounds killer. Though the department itself seems skeletal, and the program scattered (it seems their point man for that degree option left last year).
At this point, I think the MSTEP program, concentrating on Energy Policy may well be what I get into. Maybe with a double MS in Civ E. It would allow me to delay decision on many things like what I want to do when I grow up, while enjoying the benefits of being in school. Additionally, it would be what I want to do, I see it being mega important in society over the next decade or two (see my earlier speculations re: oil), and the erratic program nature would free me a bit from the local bureaucracy, encouraging/allowing the part of me that brings order to things to emerge and take a more active role.
Ponderponderponder.