GREed

[icepixie]

*shrug* Less annoying than I thought it would be. Over quicker, too. And you get your scores right away, at least for the verbal and math sections, which is nice. (670/600, respectively, which...is okay? I have no idea what the average is. The combined score is well over the minimum for UT's info. science program, which is all that matters to me.)

Now I'm bored. Maybe I should go read something. *wanders off*

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[icepixie]

I've been checking out ref. jobs, and there seems to be a 50/50 split between needing a second master's or not--although I think some of the ones that don't require it at the outset require you to get it within five years or something like that. Ack, I dunno. I have more than a year to think about it, though, since I don't think I'll be going until fall 2008.

Kenyon's model does sound fabulous.

library school is filled with boring hoops to jump through.

Damn. That's unfortunate. I'd hoped it was a relatively BS-free degree.

Oooh, cataloguing. You have no idea how much joy organizing/renaming/etc. my photos gives me. I could do that for all kinds of information.

[loud-raccoon.livejournal.com]

Damn. That's unfortunate. I'd hoped it was a relatively BS-free degree.
you have no idea how much that made me laugh.
it's professional school. of course there's bs. :)

[icepixie]

Well, I figured, professional school, there are set things you need to learn to function in a job, they'll teach you that and let you get on with your life. Unlike, I dunno, English, which as we all know from undergrad is run almost entirely on BS. ;) (Fun and interesting BS, sure, but BS nonetheless.)

[loud-raccoon.livejournal.com]

the only difference in professional school is that the bs is boring. you'll see. but it's just stuff you've got to get through to learn the job.

for instance, my courses this semester are:
managing and understanding users
lifecycle metadata for digital objects
information architecture and design

and i actually find them interesting, but there's sure as hell a lot of time-wasting crap involved.

[icepixie]

Hmmm. Ah, well. I suppose the degree is worth the hoops, anyway.

"Lifecycle metadata for digital objects" sounds almost like a programming course. Is it?

[loud-raccoon.livejournal.com]

nope. it's an archives course.

[icepixie]

So what on earth is "lifecycle metadata"?

[loud-raccoon.livejournal.com]

well, metadata is a complicated idea, but a simple (overly simple) explanation might be that metadata are classifications into which information ABOUT information is stored. examples: html, xml, library catalogue entries, etc etc. even hairstyles can be classified as metadata, which is something we talked about today.

the "lifecycle" component refers to the lifespan of the metadata.

even tho html is included in metadata, that doesn't make metadata programming because what we're talking about is the tags. also, html is a metalanguage, not a language, but that's a whole 'nother issue.

[icepixie]

Interesting. ...Sort of. ;) I can imagine why it's useful, though.