My School is the iSchool
I just finished my first day of class for graduate school and to paraphrase a certain song, damn, it feels good to be a student (again).
However, I don't know if I'd be feeling that way if I hadn't taken three years off from academia. The (approximately) thousand day break gave me plenty of time to recharge my personal batteries for another stint at formal education (along with other important things, like nabbing my first full-time library job and getting married). Because I took some time away, it's great to feel like I can (and want to) hit the books on my own terms.
I've got to say that another huge plus to this program is that I get to share it with two great friends and fellow first-year graduate students, Anna and Melody. I feel extremely lucky to have my very own support group to brave this whole experience with (not to mention the support of my other friends, my family, and especially my wife).
Sure, it's going to be hard work and stressful at times, but because library and information science is one of my intellectual passions, it is also going to be totally worth it. No pain, no gain. All the blood, sweat and tears (and fistfuls of cash and loans) are going to be a small price to pay for what I'll come out of this program with.
My school is the iSchool. What's yours?
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Btw - I think we know what my school is.... "Where the BS comes before U." ;)
My school isnt really the anything_school. we have the best pharmacy college in the northwest? but i wouldnt say we are teh pharmacy school. we like tigers. we have a really great undergrad student community. ... the only way i can really match your school's cool catchphrase is to dub my school the uberschool, just cuz i think its neat. ... not really a good justification maybe. but there you have it.
i hope that if i were to marry and work in a ____ for years after my bachelors degree, that I would have the oomph to go back to school and work my ass off some more and be poor again! excellent use of blogspace