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The trees are blooming early and pitchers and catchers have reported for spring training. What season is it? You guessed it! It’s scholarship season at the iSchool. That is what you were thinking, wasn’t it?

Like most, many (all?) of you, I’d like some help paying for my graduate school experience at the iSchool. Scholarships are a great way to examine all that you’ve learned so far at the School of Information and provide an excellent opportunity to connect with people and organizations to demonstrate how awesome you really are. Get started now, because the process is not unlike an iSchool course project and you’ll want to get it right if you want the money. The deadline for most of the scholarships listed here is March 31, 2016. To help you get started, I’ve highlighted a few steps here.

Ever wonder how other students work a job, feed a family, walk a dog, answer discussion questions, manage to have clean clothes to wear (ahem, most days), and put together a PowerPoint presentation—all without losing their marbles or their reading notes? This post is part of a series giving you a microscopic view of how students manage their lives and their coursework at the iSchool and a better feeling for who your classmates are—people just like you.

California State Librarian Greg Lucas has a big job to do, managing 135 employees at the capitol branch of the state library in Sacramento and travelling around the state visiting local libraries to get a feel for the daily workings of these communities.  On top of all this, Lucas is an iSchool student—just like you and me.  Here’s how he stays organized and finds the time to get his schoolwork done as well as negotiate library funds from the California state budget. 

You’re taking courses at the iSchool, but on your Canvas site and the website—even your future diploma—it says San Jose State University. To many online students, this is just some remote idea of a large university in a booming California city. How can you connect with San Jose State while working on your graduate degree?

CASA is the answer! Casa is the word “home” in Spanish, but at SJSU, it’s the home of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts. When you open up the iSchool website, there’s a nifty little link at the top of the page right between those two ever-handy links to the King Library and MySJSU.

The spring semester is about to begin, and whether you’re brand new to the iSchool, checking it out as you decide to take the leap into graduate school, or in the middle of your coursework, there is a whole slew of resources available to help you plan your program, focus your studies, help you with the tech side of online learning, and give you an in-depth look at some of the courses and opportunities available through SJSU’s School of Information. Here’s a look at some of the best of the iStudent blog and some resources from the iSchool website.

Looking to Apply or Just Getting Started?

If you’re just getting started here at the iSchool or you’re thinking about applying to SJSU’s School of Information, take a look at these posts about the core courses and the iSchool’s introductory class about online learning, Info 203.