What should I do for a year in between undergrad and grad school?

[Polish3d]

I'll be graduating with a double major BA in the social sciences, and I should graduate 3.98ish, with Summa Cum Laude honors and Phi Beta Kappa with a variety of solid leadership and community involvement experience, as well as some previous work experience, so I think I should have a pretty decent resume to send out.

I'll be taking a year off before grad school, and I'd like to work somewhere or do something interesting in the meantime. I have several ideas already, but I'm curious for more

 

[dbk]

What are you going to study in grad school? What's your career plan? You could get a job and have them pay for grad school.

 

[lizardboy]

travel

 

[LordMorpheus]

I'm in the middle of my year between undergrad and grad school.

I took the year off to work - I'm doing R&D engineering in a field related to what I want to do in grad school.

The experience is the primary benefit (I've already got one patent moving through the legal department), but the money to reduce my loans from undergrad is very nice, too. I'll have enough put away that I'll be able to live like a person in grad school, not a starving student trying to live on a research fellowship ...

Engineering is a different ballgame than social sciences, though. As for travel, I'll have a month and a half at the end of next summer, I might go visit europe - I've get enough friends that I could probably crash on couches all the way across the continent.

 

[Gibsons]

two ways to go with this
1. think career and look for something related to what you do.
2. this is your last chance to be a young hooligan - get a job (waiter or similar) in a really cool place and have fun. Go to Colorado and ski, San Diego and surf, something like that.

 

[sjwaste]

Post that resume...

 

[her209]

Male exotic dancer. You can pay off your undergrad student loans and possibly have enough to pay for your graduate tuition as well.

 

[esun]

Try working in a foreign country. That'd be fun (I think), since it combines making money with travel.