Last weekend, me and my friend Jenny went to an MBA Grad School fair in midtown Manhattan.

I really didn’t expect much from the fair, but decided to give it a shot anyway. I always go into these things thinking they will never help me lean one way or another on a topic. More times than not, I feel they will help turn me against what they are really trying to promote. In this case, it was post graduate education.

But, to my surprise, this Grad School fair really pushed me in the direction of “probably” going to Grad School for an MBA.

Before I speak further on the conference, I had ideas of going to Grad School to get another degree in Journalism. I’m going to pass on that. Instead, ill just continue working hard at writing and pitching. I feel J School won’t really do much for me in this day and age.

Ten, fifteen, twenty years ago? Probably. But right now, I’m too skeptical on the topic.

Back to the fair…

It gave me a few questions I needed to ask myself before I ever apply:

#1 What do I want to do in life?

#2 How does what I want to do fit into Grad School?

#3 How can Grad School help me along in my selected career?

#4 Affordable, solid school or expensive, prestigious school?

#5 Do I want to entertain the idea of a foreign program or domestic only?

Those are all important questions I need to answer.

But the most important decision I made is that I don’t have to go now. I don’t even have to go next year or two years from now. Its really something that can wait.

Coming out of college a year ago, I had one job doing mainly PR which I thought would be my route, but that fell apart. Now, I work at another similar company doing…I don’t even know what to be honest.

So what I’ve decided is that before I can ever think of applying, I need to decide on what career is for me and answer the questions above.

Is it as a journalist, editor, or something completely different from what I studied in college?

I don’t know yet, but I soon will. But what I do know is that people go to Grad School in their late 20′s and early 30′s, and some even later.

As much as I love school and yearn to go back, I can be honest and say I’m not ready for it. I’m not ready to sit around a table with individuals who have way more business level experience than I do.

And its just not a matter of me believing in myself; it’s just wanting to be on the same page with everyone when I enter. I want to make sure I just don’t blindly go and regret it years later.

So, in the end, I will know when I’m ready for grad school and if that happens to be a decade from now, it just happens to be a decade from now.

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