Two archaeologists walk into a bar... This September I will be starting a Masters program in Information and Library Science with a Media Archival emphasis at UCLA. Many of you are probably wondering: what the heck is that? People who haven’t seen me in a while might be a little bit confused: weren’t you trying to become the next Indiana Jones? For everybody interested, I thought I’d detail a little bit not only about what my master's program is about but my plan for the future and how I got to this point in my professional life. I enrolled in Brigham Young University as a freshman majoring in archaeology. (Just so everyone’s on the same page, archaeology is the study of ancient civilizations and peoples, not dinosaurs which is paleontology.) I really loved all my classes, professors, and fellow students in the program. I had the opportunity as an undergraduate to do original research and even excavate in Petra, Jordan, three times! Quite...
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