Transfer?

People keep asking me if I'm staying at JHU. This is because earlier in the year I was thinking about transferring to Georgetown. Well, I'm not transferring to Georgetown.

I keep telling people yes, that I'm staying at Hopkins. But I've sort of begun to wonder why. Don't get me wrong, I like my school, I love my friends, and Baltimore is now and forever "my city". But I've just been thinking about my studies more, and what I want to do. My mother always tells me that she hopes I don't end up in Baltimore for keeps. I think this is because she fears I will end up like my father (who, while being a successful microbiological chemist, has never really done anything outside of and has never really left Baltimore). But I don't know. I don't know that I would have a problem with that. Would I prefer to end up as the Editor in Chief of The Chicago Tribune? Sure, okay, I wouldn't complain or anything if that's what God has for me. But at the same time, I used to dream about being a prize winning restaurant chef with a PhD in European and Latin American Literature with two best sellers on the market. Not saying that that's realistic or anything, but I'm wondering here, if Hopkins is really the route I want to go to pursue even a smidgeon of that dream. Besides, the weather sucks.

So I've been thinking about other schools, possibly cheaper (although none of what I've come up with are that much better), in different locations, with more opportunities. So far: Sarah Lawrence (who cut down forests to send me mail for a while), NY; Goucher, MD ; Emerson, MA; Tufts, MA; Reed, OR; Seattle U, WA; Colby College, ME; Pomona College, CA; UC Santa Cruz, CA. Right now Tufts and UCSC are looking really good. Completely different areas, equally appealing. USSC is winning harder, b/c honestly, I'm obsessed with that place. It's like it reached 1964 and then stopped. They surf there. Can you imagine? That's probably where I will end up not going, b/c there's no way God would let me around that many attractive boys with shaggy hair. Hannah + intelligent surfers= DANGER!

Don't know. I'm thinking about it. I'd like to have your thoughts, you 5.

-H. Love.