November 20, 2012 – 8:24 am
I would like to follow up on Chelsea’s two blog posts about some of the differences between the Main Boston campus and West campus in South Hadley. For a general feel, I will start by referring you back to my earlier post, “The Tale of Two Campuses,” but I will try to be more specific [...]
November 14, 2012 – 3:26 pm
After last week’s post, I got a comment from a prospective GSLIS student, Jodi. She writes, “As a prospective student (probably West), I would love to hear more about the differences between the two, especially from a student’s perspective. Anyone care to summarize that discussion at the Squealing Pig?” Jodi, and all who are curious [...]
November 8, 2012 – 11:53 am
I bet many of you have seen this map before. It’s funny! And sort of true. But some of us out in the dragon-filled regions see Boston not so much as the center of the universe, but more as a big scary jungle. That’s why last week, LISSA West sponsored a field trip to the [...]
October 6, 2012 – 8:41 am
Does anybody else feel incredibly lucky? Seriously, does anybody out there feel like they’ve hit the profession jackpot? I do. I mean, it’s been quite a year for me in general. I finished 3 years of serving in the Peace Corps, married the love of my life who I met in the Peace Corps (yeah, [...]
September 12, 2012 – 9:32 am
I started my Simmons GSLIS career on beautiful West campus, at Mount Holyoke College. It was a long, two and a half hour drive, but other than a few dicey snowstorms, the commute through the meandering hills of NH and Massachusetts was a pleasant one. I enjoyed many great books on my MP3 player during [...]
Take reference first, or as soon as you can. Do not be afraid of this class, its really great. But it is a lot of work, so pace yourself. Heres some advice I got going in, along with a few suggestions of my own: Take reference first. Thats LIS-407 reference/information services to you; I call [...]
Summer class is a new animal to this returning student. Its gorgeous out, the weather is getting hotter, my sixth grader is climbing the walls as she rides out the end of the yearshed like to stay in sixth grade forever but shes also thrilled summer is comingand Im inside cracking the books. Well, I [...]
Its odd to be out of school. I had some classmates over for a barbeque on Saturday, mostly folks from my reference class, and I commented that it was odd to be speaking of reference in the past tense. That class (LIS 407) was so intimidating, it loomed so large in my life this spring! [...]
On this, the last week of classes in my first semester as a library grad student, I finally made it to the Simmons Boston campus. I am sitting in the campus center as I write, near the Java City café. Its a gorgeous day and the afternoon sun is drenching the students lounging on the [...]
April 27, 2010 – 10:23 am
A word about being an older student: Its not a big deal. My friends ask about this from time to time, and my experience is, in short, that the classroom is ageless. Id say most of my classmates at GSLIS West, at any rate, are in their late 20s to early 40s, and I gather [...]
