ch-ch-changes the sequel

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It's a beautiful day today. The sun is shining, I have the whole day to myself, and I got almost everything done that I needed to do right away. I move around the city buying groceries, going to the post office, etc.- and everything is done with much ease. I know how to get where I'm going, I know two or three alternatives should my end goal need

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[turinturambar81]

I am also for the associate's based on the notion that if something unexpected should befall in year 3/4, you at least have that piece of paper. Unfortunately, companies are not going to look at 65 hours of work toward a 4-year degree and an associate's degree as equivalent most of the time. An associate's shows you completed SOMETHING, 65 hours toward a bachelor's, unless you are enrolled at the time you are applying for the job, means you quit at something.

As for schools, you're in the best area of the country for affordable, great schools IMO. The Big 10 schools are all great academically (Iowa/Minnesota/Wisconsin/Indiana/Purdue/Michigan/Michigan State/Wisconsin/Penn State/Northwestern/Ohio State, yes there are 11 schools in the Big 10) and will be big schools in interesting college towns. I found this for IR: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/other-college-majors/307644-best-international-relations-schools.html , and the only one close is U of Chicago, which doesn't surprise me as it's one of the best schools in the whole world for everything it does; it IS the best school in the world for economics (Milton Friedman ring a bell?) The Manhattan Project was done there. I mean, I could go on and on. I've heard that the culture there is very stuffy and nerdish, and not fun nerdish either, more like, fun is seeing who can determine the slope of a demand curve the fastest type of fun.

Beyond that, I've heard good things about Augustana and De Pauw. Obviously Bradley is not a choice. I'm a big fan of Illinois State myself. UI Chicago is pretty good too. I like what I've seen from Iowa State and Northern Iowa, not so much Western, Northern, and Eastern Illinois. Southern Illinois is a good one too, pretty place to go, it's where all the people who are going to work with trees for a living go. Governor's State is ok and is fairly centrally located to the entire midwest.

I don't know if any of this helps but there you go.