I'll get things started!
I'm going to apply to MA/PhD programs in Comparative Literature. Since I don't have a literature MA yet, I will probably have to get that one first, but I want to start an MA only to be able to continue towards a PhD, since I already have an MA (in American Studies) and a Master in International Business, and I don't want to start collecting Master degrees! My broad focus will be in American and Italian literature. My research interests are extremeley varied (Commedia dell'Arte, Theater of the Absurd, Psychoanalysis (applied to specific author's work, e.g. Sylvia Plath), Suicide, Jewish-American literature, Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino, representations of beauty and pain, immigrant literature in general, and, actually loads of other things) and I'm trying to narrow them down for my
statement of purpose, so far, without any luck.
I'm going to apply to a large number of universities, since I really want to get started because I'll be 25 this year and I'm sick of doing jobs my heart isn't really in while waiting to get in. I'm dreaming of Ivy League, so I'll probably apply to a couple of them, but I'm also going for decent top-30 state schools. I am having trouble deciding on my safe option, since I want it to be good enough to worth attending, while giving me enough certainty that I'll get in...
So, as you can see, the usual worries!
How about the rest of you?