Laurabelle's Blog

The most exciting and important part of my graduation weekend was my family party on Saturday afternoon. I invited my parents, who were in town, and Jeff's whole family. I would have invited friends as well, but all of them were celebrating with their own parties! Still, we had eight people, including Jeff's younger brother, [...]

Yesterday evening was the iSchool Convocation ceremony. (It really bugs me that they call it convocation, because convocation is what happens at the beginning of the school year. On the other hand, it's not commencement either, because that's the official UW ceremony this afternoon.) It started at 7pm with a reception, and the ceremony itself [...]

I have to write an RFP for my systems administration class, and it’s actually rather an interesting assignment. It’s a good exercise to have to do one hypothetically, before actually being thrown at the problem when a real system is on the line. Besides, I get to make up lots of details that weren’t in [...]

I didn't bother going to 580 today, and I didn't get around to checking my email until just now either. (I was too busy fiddling with my templates. Check out the sidebar!) It turns out that it's a good thing I didn't bother going to class, because class was cancelled!

Today the iSchool had a Curriculum Transformation workshop to address diversity in the core curriculum. It lasted from 9:30 this morning until about 2:15 this afternoon, I think. All classes were canceled so that as many people as possible would be able to attend. Me, I stayed home and slept until 10:00. Great, I thought [...]

I'm graduating! Laura Melton: Your portfolio has been approved by your advisor and by the second reader and is a pass, no revisions required. Congratulations! Seriously, I expected to have to make some sort of revision, so I'm quite pleasantly surprised and relieved.

I am now beginning my very last quarter of grad school, and I'm just taking two classes. One is on Library Automation Systems and is taught by one of the tech people from the Law Library. The class seems cool, and it is after all my current chosen career path. I am finding myself in [...]

Much as I hate my Young Adult Materials class, I'm pretty proud of the web poster that I created. It's on the theme of Folk Fiction, as is my WebQuest. (Sorry for not linking to the WebQuest, but I've restricted access because I use two images that belongs to someone else and for which I [...]

I'm working on my last assignment right now; it's due this evening at 23:59. Normal service will resume shortly.

Ai Ling wants to know how I decided to be a librarian, what library school is like, and whether I think the job prospects are good. Since these questions are fairly general, and things that I like to talk about, I thought I'd answer them here rather than by email, which is how they were [...]