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iSchool, University of Washington: place.

I got my Librarian degree at UW (Master of Library and Information Science). I went there on accident. I had initially bookmarked the UW site early on as a Sophmore while looking at museum studies programs. Then when I went to do an internship (National Museum of Amercan History, Archives Center) I found out that one of the previous interns worked at UW Archives, and was a student in the Western Washington University Archives program. When I got done with my internship, and was looking for schools to go to to learn how to be an Archivist, I some how got everything jumbled up, and, since the bookmark I had saved was for UW, I figured I must have been looking at them for Archivist School (and I knew the other intern was involved with it somehow). So I applied there (and Universtiy of British Columbia, which has Archives stuff) and got in (both places). I picked UW because it was in the US, which made it more convenient.

Once I get there I find out: whoops UW only has one archives class... ha ha, I accidentaly applied to, was accepted by, and matriculated at the "wrong" school. It turned out okay though because in hindsight, the MLIS is more versatile than an MA in history with an Archives concentration, and I also found out that, even though I still want to be an archivist (and a copyright lawyer), I'm actually okay at pretending to be a School Librarian. I also ended up working at the UW Archives and Manuscripts etc. Plus I had some pretty awesome professors, and some pretty great friends, and I definitely fell in love with the City of Seattle. That's the 411.


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