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My Brain Hurts
Mar. 16th, 2004 01:35 amSo, I'm home, and I have clean clothes. It's nice. Walter and Pigwidgeon are visiting my flock, so there are now eight birds in the big cage, all seeming quite content. Baby Danny is a very messy eater still. He climbs all the way into the seed cup, till only his little feathered butt is hanging out, then starts throwing seeds around till he finds the one he wants. Very silly, but so cute.
I've been spending all of break so far crunching numbers, ever since I got back from the UIUC open house. The school looks incredible, I can't wait to go there. Which is good, since Kirkland and Ellis haven't given me a call, and Kent appears to have disappeared off the face of the earth. But I love the look and feel of Champaign, and the prices for apartments and things like that, and the low low price of law school. About 12,000 a year with tuition, fees, and books. It's so very doable.
But Mike got into the Masters program in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, and he really, really wants to go there. It's so expensive, but he says it'll really give him a leg up in his career, and help him get into the doctoral program at UIUC. It's only a year-long program, and I found out at the open house that I can defer my admission to law school for a year and still keep my scholarship. I don't really want to live in Chicago, but I could put up with it, just for a year. But to live in Chicago for a year and pay Mike's tuition and fees is 50,000 dollars. It's staggering.
Since Mike went to super-cheap NMU, his parents have enough money left in his college fund to actually pay for most of it, if I get a job that will buy food for us. So it's possible to do it, and not dig ourselves into a financial hole that we'll never get out of. On the other hand, that money could easily pay for Mike's master's degree, and probably his whole doctoral degree and maybe more, at any public school. We'd finish up with only half as much debt, which would be really nice. Especially since neither of us are planning on going into professions that are especially lucrative. (Latest figures I heard were 25,000 per year and up for prosecutors, and the job openings were very competetive.)
Does anyone out there know what kind of graduate history program ISU and EIU have? Or how feasible it is to get a master's degree in a year at U of C? Any information right now would be helpful, I know so very little about grad school. =P
I've been spending all of break so far crunching numbers, ever since I got back from the UIUC open house. The school looks incredible, I can't wait to go there. Which is good, since Kirkland and Ellis haven't given me a call, and Kent appears to have disappeared off the face of the earth. But I love the look and feel of Champaign, and the prices for apartments and things like that, and the low low price of law school. About 12,000 a year with tuition, fees, and books. It's so very doable.
But Mike got into the Masters program in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, and he really, really wants to go there. It's so expensive, but he says it'll really give him a leg up in his career, and help him get into the doctoral program at UIUC. It's only a year-long program, and I found out at the open house that I can defer my admission to law school for a year and still keep my scholarship. I don't really want to live in Chicago, but I could put up with it, just for a year. But to live in Chicago for a year and pay Mike's tuition and fees is 50,000 dollars. It's staggering.
Since Mike went to super-cheap NMU, his parents have enough money left in his college fund to actually pay for most of it, if I get a job that will buy food for us. So it's possible to do it, and not dig ourselves into a financial hole that we'll never get out of. On the other hand, that money could easily pay for Mike's master's degree, and probably his whole doctoral degree and maybe more, at any public school. We'd finish up with only half as much debt, which would be really nice. Especially since neither of us are planning on going into professions that are especially lucrative. (Latest figures I heard were 25,000 per year and up for prosecutors, and the job openings were very competetive.)
Does anyone out there know what kind of graduate history program ISU and EIU have? Or how feasible it is to get a master's degree in a year at U of C? Any information right now would be helpful, I know so very little about grad school. =P
