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I'm still rather ambivalent about my decision, but there will be no mater's thesis for me. As I wrote earlier, it's hard to forgo the three extra electives that one has to give up in order to do a thesis. As it stands, if I did a thesis next year, I could only take one more elective (assuming 6-7 credits a quarter) before graduating next June. And there are so many electives I want to take! Now, if I could only give up my remaining core classes instead, it would be an entirely different deal all together...

It's the end of Winter quarter at the iSchool, which can only mean one thing: drama. You'd think a library school* could keep out of trouble, but that's just impossible for our #4 ranked school in the nation. This penultimate quarter of the year brings not one, but two scandals to rile up the LIS cohorts: the 560 fiasco and student body elections.

The MLIS program at the iSchool is capped off by one of two options: a "Portfolio", which is essentially a website documenting a student's growth in a variety of areas such as technology, leadership, intellectual growth, etc.; or a Master's thesis, which is an individual research project usually spanning 3 quarters and requiring somewhere between 9 and 15 credits (as well as an expenditure of a whole lot of blood, sweat and tears).

If you're a researcher or a student, you probably have dozens (if not hundreds) of downloaded research articles scattered about your computer's hard drive, most likely with different naming conventions and folder archives. Regardless of all your efforts, do you have difficulty finding that one article you know you once downloaded?

Annotate, highlight text, and create "sticky note" on webpages so you don't have to print them out:

http://www.diigo.com/