Enough for all yins
I'm in Pittsburgh!
I arrived on Sunday night, and will be leaving here thursday morning... so still one more day left.
It's been a pretty good time so far... we've been to the Incline (which is a funicular, if that's how you spell it) and I took some awesome pictures of the city at night. We've eaten at a couple restaurants within walking distance of Grant's apartment. And, probably most excitingly, I visited the Pitt Library and Information Science department today. They were quite helpful, seemed glad to show me around and talk to me about the major, and I learned some pretty good things about the program. For instance, I can get my master's degree in a year, if I work 15 hours a week in some mundane office or library job, I get 75% tuition, and they have one of the top archivism schools in the country. It was a very successful venture, considering I pretty much had no questions or anything really to say to them, because I haven't yet started real research on schools. Oh, and I don't have to take the GRE to apply. Score.
So yeah, Pitt seems like a good option for grad school for me. I mean, you really can't beat getting out of school in a year.
I've been doing a lot of reading lately. I'm almost done with Bill Bryson's 'In a Sunburned Country,' about Australia. I don't know why his books are so great, but they really are. I think it's because it's everything I could want out of life... traveling to strange lands, lots and lots of useless facts based off of research I tell myself I could do, and all of it in a very candid tone. This man is pretty much my hero.
The other book I started today while waiting for the LIS office to open was Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale.' It's kind of weird to read about sex slaves in the future, but it's a pretty good book so far. I read close to 70 pages this morning before falling asleep for an hour with my purse as a pillow in the student lounge, in front of the big glass windows that face the street. I just hope I wasn't drooling.
Pittsburgh weather is SO NICE. Like, can you imagine it being in the 40s with NO SNOW and wind and pretty much pleasant weather? Wow. What a wonder a few degrees of latitude will do. I'm afraid it's going to be a shock going back to Ithaca.
Grant's apartment is pretty nice. Tall cielings, lots of space. It reminds me of a grown-up version of 109 Dewitt - that is, on a city street and without beer, stolen signs covering the wall, and oven mitts stapled to the couch. But Grant, in true Bandie form, has a 'construction detour' sign on his wall. Old habits die hard.
Oh, did I mention that I shopped at the Rochester chapter of the Sign Store? Liz will be the first to see it - it's in the bathroom. I think you'll like it ;)
Speaking of the Sign Store, I need to know more of this bone section leader stuff. I need to have admin privileges to bones.org. I need to work out the schedule for Bone Rush (Believe me, it's in process. I'm just struggling with filling up every day with things to do, while still giving myself time to gear up for the semester at hand and work at the library.). And I dunno, maybe I should email old section leaders and ask for pearls of wisdom. Eh, it's not really a problem, I just need to do it at some point.
Pictures will be forthcoming, once I'm on my own computer. Maybe tomorrow I'll post some.
I arrived on Sunday night, and will be leaving here thursday morning... so still one more day left.
It's been a pretty good time so far... we've been to the Incline (which is a funicular, if that's how you spell it) and I took some awesome pictures of the city at night. We've eaten at a couple restaurants within walking distance of Grant's apartment. And, probably most excitingly, I visited the Pitt Library and Information Science department today. They were quite helpful, seemed glad to show me around and talk to me about the major, and I learned some pretty good things about the program. For instance, I can get my master's degree in a year, if I work 15 hours a week in some mundane office or library job, I get 75% tuition, and they have one of the top archivism schools in the country. It was a very successful venture, considering I pretty much had no questions or anything really to say to them, because I haven't yet started real research on schools. Oh, and I don't have to take the GRE to apply. Score.
So yeah, Pitt seems like a good option for grad school for me. I mean, you really can't beat getting out of school in a year.
I've been doing a lot of reading lately. I'm almost done with Bill Bryson's 'In a Sunburned Country,' about Australia. I don't know why his books are so great, but they really are. I think it's because it's everything I could want out of life... traveling to strange lands, lots and lots of useless facts based off of research I tell myself I could do, and all of it in a very candid tone. This man is pretty much my hero.
The other book I started today while waiting for the LIS office to open was Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale.' It's kind of weird to read about sex slaves in the future, but it's a pretty good book so far. I read close to 70 pages this morning before falling asleep for an hour with my purse as a pillow in the student lounge, in front of the big glass windows that face the street. I just hope I wasn't drooling.
Pittsburgh weather is SO NICE. Like, can you imagine it being in the 40s with NO SNOW and wind and pretty much pleasant weather? Wow. What a wonder a few degrees of latitude will do. I'm afraid it's going to be a shock going back to Ithaca.
Grant's apartment is pretty nice. Tall cielings, lots of space. It reminds me of a grown-up version of 109 Dewitt - that is, on a city street and without beer, stolen signs covering the wall, and oven mitts stapled to the couch. But Grant, in true Bandie form, has a 'construction detour' sign on his wall. Old habits die hard.
Oh, did I mention that I shopped at the Rochester chapter of the Sign Store? Liz will be the first to see it - it's in the bathroom. I think you'll like it ;)
Speaking of the Sign Store, I need to know more of this bone section leader stuff. I need to have admin privileges to bones.org. I need to work out the schedule for Bone Rush (Believe me, it's in process. I'm just struggling with filling up every day with things to do, while still giving myself time to gear up for the semester at hand and work at the library.). And I dunno, maybe I should email old section leaders and ask for pearls of wisdom. Eh, it's not really a problem, I just need to do it at some point.
Pictures will be forthcoming, once I'm on my own computer. Maybe tomorrow I'll post some.