<p>Hello everyone! New member here, and I'm not entirely sure where to post this (or even if this is an appropriate forum for the matter), so please let me know if this could be moved.</p>
<p>I'm currently an undergrad at what could be described as a "state satellite school" in Wisconsin (that is, a campus that isn't UW-Madison, hah). I'm a junior on a B.S. path in English (yes, a Bachelor of Science in English, complicated story) with a 2.8 GPA, but I expect that to be up to about a 3.1 or so when I graduate next spring, with a GPA of close to 3.4 or 3.5 over my last 60 credits. I've given a lot of thought to graduate school and would eventually like to get the ol' doctorate, but I do not come from a terribly well-off family and I'm fearful that after I get my bachelor's, I won't be able to find a way to pay off my student loans (I don't know what the market's like for people with English degrees but I can't imagine it's all that good), and even if I did, I don't know how I'd then turn around and pay for graduate school.</p>
<p>So in the last few weeks I have been giving serious thought to the military. I'm thinking either the Army or the Navy. Now, I've done a little bit of research and although I get the gist of the benefits and opportunities and such, there are a lot of acronyms and general terminology that are way over my head at the moment.</p>
<p>So here are my questions: is it worth pursuing, say, a Master's while I'm enlisted in the military? Would I have to sign up with some online university? (I'd prefer not to, though beggars can't be choosers.) Or would it be better to enlist, serve my four years without the added hassle of school, get out, and then have a fancy new addition to my resum</p>