So Many Options?

Call me a nerd if you want but I love school. I mean so what if there is homework? You get to hang out with friends, learn stuff, experiment and your worse case scenario is failing. On top off all that the economic climate these days isn't too hot and finding jobs isn't so easy. That all in mind, grad school seems like a much better post-aliyah plan than trying to find work. Problem is, I know exactly what I want to do with my life (start my own brand agency and design management consultancy) and exactly what I want to study to help me do it. It's a problem because in Israel you are fairly limited in your choices when it comes to graduate education.

There is exactly one program in the entire country that fits the description of what I am looking for as far as a masters program goes. That would be the Mdes at Bezalel. They have a design management stream where i could learn all sorts of wonderful things like branding, creative direction and sustainable design practices. The thing is I don't have very good luck with Bezalel. True I am no longer 19 and without any formal design training, but I was optimistic last time as well. Applying again is scary enough with a backup plan, forget about without one.

So what to do?

Originally I had thought to apply to do an MFA in film or photography or something. Photography went out the window when I visited Bezalel's MFA exhibit and realized everything there was mindless junk- I couldn't handle art. Film school was out when I realized I just wasn't that interested in film.

Another idea I had been toying with was an Entrepreneurial MBA. Not only does it sound impressive but I do plan on starting my own company and helping people run theirs. Problem with that is other than entrepreneurship I would probably be really bored in business school. Not to mention I haven't done math since grade 12 calculus and don't know how I would handle the GMATs (although I have been assured I would be fine). Two days ago this idea was out- now I am considering it again. I really should just go down the street and take my friend's GMAT books already and stop speculating.

Idea three is a masters in communications. Communications just seems like one of those silly degrees that gets you no where though...

My new discovery for the day was Technion's MSc in Industrial Design. Not really going to help me with branding, but it seems really interesting and the course work seems like it could turn me into the next Maya Lin. (Who, for those of you who don't know, was a 20 something Asian girl who designed the Vietnam Memorial. There was a huge amount of controversy over the choice of her as the designer but the memorial was wildly brilliant.) I have basically decided as long as they would be willing to accept me with a graphic design degree I will apply. Which is funny because I had been bugging my friend who is on the same aliyah time line as me to choose Jerusalem over Technion and just when he does I start thinking of Technion. Either way Bezalel is still my first choice.

Now that I have thought this all through I just need to get my act together and start applying!