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[theinevitable]

I think for masters' programs it is different, or at least ones where the degree is pretty professionalized. I will look into this. It seems like some of the schools give out a lot of aid/scholarships, and others expect everyone to pay.

Aug, I can send you this. It's actually a Pdf.

JL, my parents suggested that I move in with them soon to establish residency, but that assumes I would get into the program, and that it is actually the program I want to attend, and that living with my parents for a year and a half with nothing to do wouldn't make me want to die. Although clearly if the first two things weren't an issue, it would probably be worth a year of being bored and working some dumb job in Charlotte to save $20k.

[wombat]

It seems like some of the schools give out a lot of aid/scholarships, and others expect everyone to pay.

This is the thing to be careful of -  that difference could mean that the schools that give a lot of aid are the ones where the degree is actually worth something. With the result being that the people who are in debt because they had to pay, also don't have the prestige degree that will get them a job. 

At the PhD level, though, that could also be a difference between a more theoretical, academic program - which would give a lot of aid - and one that's more practical. In a more theoretical program where the only job you could get would be as an academic, since they don't expect you'll ever actually get a job, there's no way they can ask you to pay. I know, cynical much? But there is a big problem with academic disciplines turning out more grad students than there are jobs for. I don't know if that's something to consider at the masters level. But definitely, you need to figure out what's going on with the difference, because it has to mean something.

[wombat]

Another point: it's great you've got a spreadsheet. It's a great starting point. But now you need a human being in the field - preferably several - to get advice from.

[doomglobe]

Indeed, how the heck would ANY of us know anything?

[wombat]

We've got the Internet. We don't need to know anything.

[Arachno-capitalist]

When learning how to perform ordinary least squares regression, the professor spent 2 hours running us through the proof and requiring us to make the calculation long hand on a set of a few dozen observations under the guise it was an in-class quiz. Then to show us the correct solution he pressed Tools->data analysis -> regressions.
What I'm saying here is that the only person in that class room who remembers how to do those calculations long hand is the guy with the ph.d in economics who uses that knowledge only as a torture device for undergrads. Because why the heck would any one know how to do anything when we've got computers.

[wombat]

Sometimes knowing too much makes life so boring. On the front of the local section of the paper today it said there was an article about someone nearby who keeps homing pigeons. I was all excited, till I turned to the article and saw that it was the same guy I wrote about for the AP a few years ago. Sigh.

[jay-ell]

The other thing about knowledge is, when you google something, you get the answer to one question. But when you learn something, or how to fix something, or how to make something, or just the theory behind something complex, you get more questions. And having more questions is unequivocally a good thing.

Stored knowledge also helps you see connections between things where the links are not immediately obvious, like changing the oil in your car and developing an irrigation system for your garden. Or how much easier it is to understand the effects of various poisons in the body when you've studied the periodic table of the elements. And seeing connections between seemingly unrelated ideas is how Progress is made.

You've got to throw all the knowledge in the ol' rock tumbler together and crank it for a while if you expect to get anything shiny out, is my take.

[greenkoolayd]

You've got to throw all the knowledge in the ol' rock tumbler together and crank it for a while if you expect to get anything shiny out, is my take.

SOMEone has been hanging out with asherdan too long.....

[jay-ell]

SOMEone has been hanging out with asherdan too long.....

You know, I actually had a line about contracting a bad case of Folksy Speakin's from Ash but I deleted it. I guess Wombles is getting lazy about keeping our narrative voices separate. I hear that can happen when you're juggling a lot of characters at once.

[wombat]

The other thing about knowledge is, when you google something, you get the answer to one question.

You must use Google very differently from me.

[theinevitable]

I am not a stupid person, but every time I try to figure out anything about my insurance plan I start feeling like one. When I do a search for dentists who accept my insurance I only get people in Illinois. When I specify that they should be within 10 miles of my zip code, it says there are no results.

[Choop]

insurance companies can DIAF

[theinevitable]

oh, wow: no matter what specialty I pick (I want General Dentistry) it decides that what I wanted was Prosthodontics. Thanks!

I just want to know if my old dentist is covered. Bahh.

[jaydub]

Call him.