As I’ve talked about in a previous post, I am definitely thinking about going back to graduate school. I thinking about going to either business school or law school – or both.
This brings me to the issue of affordability. Graduate school will cost around $50,000, not to mention the opportunity cost of lost wages.
If I am serious about going to school, I will need to make a serious effort to finance my education by means other than student loans.
There is one opportunity which particularly stands out to me as being worth pursuing: The NSEP-Boren Program. I first learned about this program when I attended an information session about it at CU, and I was the only one who bothered to show up.
There are interesting requirements to receive support from NSEP. First, I will have to work for the federal government for at least one year – which I have absolutely no problem with as this is something I’ve wanted to do anyway.
Second, the program has a strict foreign language requirement – in addition to a fairly strict criteria for the choice of the language. Luckily, both Japanese and Russian are on the list of “approved” languages.
Third, to qualify I will have to create a proposal for a project. As I understand it, the project is a central piece of the application and is meant to serve as a kind of a thesis during my graduate education.
My new source of frustration and subject of countless internet searches is figuring out what I could do for a project. It will have to be, in a significant way related to something about law, business and japan.
Any suggestions or ideas?
