Musing about master's degrees...

[electricland]

OK, so should I head for a master's in planning, I have once again missed the deadline for most schools (York being the happy exception... although my dad, who once taught there, has been making negative muttering noises about their faculty for some time now. But their program looks v. self-guided and cool. OTOH, do I need something self-guided? I know very little about this field).

Cities I'd quite like to be in, left to right:

Vancouver - UBC
Toronto - U of T, York
Kingston (maybe... well, it's closer to Toronto than I am now anyway) - Queen's
Montreal - McGill (quite miss McGill) -- plus U de M has one if I were feeling adventurous enough to start a degree in another language, which I'm not especially
Halifax - Dal

There are others near Toronto, such as Waterloo. But I dunno. There's one in Calgary too, but I've been to Calgary.

Ponder, ponder.

On the whole, probably best to focus my efforts on those that claim they only care about your final year GPA, since my GPA from the penultimate year really does not bear thinking about.

The thought of digging up academic references is grim and terrifying... still, as I was saying to crankygrrl, I can't have alienated all my profs, can I?

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[electricland.livejournal.com]

Hm. All very good points... thanks. I've been hearing horror stories about the York campus my entire life, but I don't believe I've ever actually been there!

I'd definitely need to find out more about the teaching staff. However, Anonymous down there assures me that they will most likely be thrilled to talk about themselves, should I enquire! And the oddball electives are a plus... in fact to my knowledge there IS only one required course for the MES, the rest is all electives.

A further possible drawback to York is the slightly creepy following-in-your-father's-footsteps aspect of the whole thing... McGill is one thing, but the same grad degree at the same university might be a little... weird.

Or maybe it's just me. Who can say?