Arg

So... all day at work today...or at least the 4 hours till now, I've been researching grad schools. This. Stresses. Me. Out. Why? I don't even know...which just stresses me out more. Basically what I did today was request information from every ALA accredited school that I would even remotely consider attending. Problem though, there are only really maybe two that I actually feel good about attending, those being the University of Maryland and UT-Knoxville. I think Knoxville seems good just because it's close to home and less of a striking out into the world on my own kind of option, and Maryland seems good just because...I'm not really sure. I love DC, it's one of my favorite cities, and I've always kind of had this dream that I would end up there, so grad school there would be one step closer to that. Also, it's familiar. Not overwhelmingly so, but just enough to not scare me out of my wits.

Thinking about the GRE and my low GPA and having to get references also makes me nervous. I know it shouldn't, but it just does, ok?

Honestly though, right now Maryland is definitely the front runner, because they offer a specialization that I'm really interested in-- archive and information management. Also, I would probably have access to some really interesting internship/employment opportunities there in exciting high drama locations like the library of congress or the national archives. w00t!

Anyways...