*Mike Chang: I'm pretty cool with this storyline, but I think it probably should have been wrapped up earlier in the season. West Side Story would have been a more natural place to end it, but I get why they wanted to have it resolved at the actual glee club competition. I'm actually hard-core on Tina's side with this, though. I've known a lot of folks who've gone into the performing arts (mostly on the instrumental side, but still), and . . . for you to get good enough to be able to do the thing you really want to do with your life, you don't have time for solid contingency plans. A friend of a friend double majored in music performance and chemistry to have something to fall back on, and he didn't graduate for six years. And honestly, very few of the people I know who went to school for something that's more "useful" have been able to get into those fields anyway. Everybody's plan B is "I'll figure something out if I have to," and I don't think that's a bad way to think as long as you know what you're getting into. It seems like Mike and Tina understand that. [/end rant]

I agree with this. I remember reading something in some teen magazine a few years ago with some guy who was either a rapper or a hip-hop artist (I feel bad because I can't remember who it was) and they asked him to give five pieces of advice to becoming a star. The thing that really stuck with me was when he said, "don't have a plan B." He saw it as a way of giving up and said that if you really want to do something, you should give it your all. It may not be the most sensible piece of advice, but I always liked it. Even back up plans have no guarantees, and if you're going to work hard to achieve something, I think you should put that effort towards something you love. Sure, you might never achieve your dreams, but I think if you're lucky enough to know what you want, you should go after it.