Chalupa9

Hey everyone I probably should have researched this earlier but I started freaking out after attending Duke’s revisit day weekend event. decision day’s approaching real quick, but I am no closer to making a decision then when I first started. I’m mostly interested in a career in renewable energy, so I mostly applied to programs that have an energy focus but I also want to go to a program that encourages collaboration and has a great sense of community I’m mainly deciding between Duke MEM’s energy focus and Indiana’s MPA-MSES with an energy concentration, and to a lesser extent CU Boulder’s MENV. I also got into UT Austin’s EER, UCSB’s BREN but I thought they were too technical for my comfort. other schools I got into were GWU’s ENRP, UMN’s STEP, South carolina’s MEERM, but they don’t have a strong energy focus so I’m not considering them. From what I saw at Duke, I felt like the other prospects were super intense and I’m a little concerned I might not fit in, also I’m not sure how I feel about Durham as a city. meanwhile, SPEA is giving me a lot of funding, I’ll get a dual degree out of it, and if I lose interest in energy one day, I could fall back on an MPA. The only downside would be that SPEA doesn’t seem as well known as Duke, and Bloomington’s even smaller than Durham. That being said, SPEA is right in the center of Bloomington, so it’s close to where the action’s happening. So to sum up, my brain says duke because of the strength of its program and career services, but my heart says Indiana because of the reasons above. if anyone has any insight I would really appreciate it.