Many people, I expect, will be blogging about what they got for Christmas and the like, and/or shopping. Being efficient small forest animals, we'll take care of that in short order:
Christmas Presents Include:
Clothes - lots. Because as fun as going naked in Oregon in winter is, well...
Books - More. Terry Pratchett, Neal Stephenson, and assorted history for the win, if not the bookshelf space.
Games - Call of Duty 2 is freaking awesome, but is 6(!) discs and takes 4 gigs of HD. Also an 8x CD drive, the requirements of which I only exceed by...5 times. Which is up from the 10 times I exceeded previously required 4x drives by. Because, you know, 8x was awesome in like, 1995.
So what did I do today? If you said "Enjoyed presents" you would be wrong. Instead, since I take the GRE Wednesday, and haven't done enough research yet, I looked up Master's of Library Science grad schools.
This is anti-fun for one main reason: For as much as these people are apparently all about easy access to information, I could design them a better webpage in like, 10 minutes. I except that people who do a fair amount of web design, like Whir, say, could do this in about 5 minutes. It was bad.
In any case, preliminary schools look like this:
Emporia State University
The Good: Distance education through Portland. If the figures I found were accurate, $4,515 + living expenses is bloody cheap in comparison to everyone else.
The Neutral: I get to stay local, which has up sides (Most everyone I know is here) and down sides (I've been here and done that)
The Bad: I'm not particularly sure I want to go distance ed, here. Also not sure I want to part-time it. Also their website is total crap. Not looking like a whole lot of internship action here, but I couldn't really find out.
Southern Connecticut State University
The Good: Reasonably cheap ($7,545+living expenses). East coast, for close proximity to lots of things I'd like to see. Exceedingly anti-far from Yale (half-mile?), where Regina will be going to school, for the win. Looks like reasonable on-campus housing, quad-style.
The Neutral: Small school. Smaller than OSU, maybe, which is saying something.
The Bad: Godawful website, so I found less information on everything than I wanted. Internshippage an "I have no idea."
University of Maryland
The Good: On the Regina's Mom's Approved List of Good Schools. East coast goodness. Reasonable close to campus housing. Intershippage a probable, in awesome locations (Washington DC for the win). I could actually find things on their website in a reasonable fashion.
The Neutral: A big school, by OSU standards, which may or may not be bad.
The Bad: The $10,298 + housing per semester @ 3 semesters price tag causes hurt to me. Also pretty much far away from anybody I know, which is anti-good.
University of Rhode Island
The Good: It's something like $18,884/year, which is excellent. The housing looks great, if you can get in. Around 50 miles from Yale, which is reasonable driving distance. East Coast school, for all that implies.
The Neutral: IIRC something like 12-13k students, which is...bloody small.
The Bad: Internshippage - who knows, because I couldn't find a damn thing on their website.
We'll be checking on other random east coast schools and Midwestish schools later. Whir unfortunately lives super-far from pretty much all of them. There's also University of Washington, but I'm not going to pay them $41,000 and live in Seattle.
And that's where we're at. GRE Wednesday. Should be fun.
Posted by Dwip at December 26, 2005 4:34 PM