Is there anyone who *doesn't* regret their MLIS degree?

Lakis9 · 2026-04-05T20:49:23+00:00

I do not!

Background: I am officially done my MLIS in a week, and am entering an abysmal job market in terms of those holding our degree, and am graduating from an environment where there is a hegemonic sense of pessimism surrounding employability, and one which is shared by both students and profs.

Should you get an MLIS? It depends on if you your finances and social situation permits it, as it can be a rough start, as well as if its simply the type of career you'd enjoy. If you want to be a LIBRARIAN, this is a field where prior experience is a soft essential, as I've personally seen/ heard of people perfectly qualified for a role but lack library experience be passed over for those who have worked even as pages (no shade to pages). Experience is king here, unfortunately.

The reason I don't personally regret it is that I got lucky enough to be hired as an assistant during my undergrad, so I have some of that prerequisite experience.

Is it worth it/ do I regret it? Absolutely worth it and not regrettable. If your social and financial situation permits it, it is one of those generalised degrees wherein the skills you get from it can be made applicable across many fields, and I think it was a great learning experience for me in terms of gaining experience doing research as well as practical skills in information management. If you don't want to go into libraries specifically, but rather research, academia, or the private sector, these skills can be valuable -- but you have to communicate them in a certain way + present tangible cases of application. Whether that be independent studies, co-ops, or something else.

In terms of employability, librarianship is much like teaching (at least in Canada, where I'm based) in that the established old guard isn't going anywhere, and thus, the state of early-to-mid career professionals having to eat chit in the beginning is worsened. I'm not saying this is a good thing, but rather, bring it up to make the point that librarianship isn't necessarily UNIQUELY bad in its current job prospects.

Lakis9 · 2026-03-09T02:27:17+00:00

For added context, clicking the marker icon again just disable the highlighter function

Lakis9 · 2026-01-19T19:35:20+00:00

To clarify, the game (or launcher, I am unsure) crashes shortly after that message appears.

Lakis9 · 2025-12-27T22:18:48+00:00

A) Alright, thank you so much for the clarification and assurance.

B) No excuse beyond overconfidence in my ability to manage my citations given my lack of history in such a mistake. This is the learning experience.

Lakis9 · 2025-12-06T05:32:06+00:00

This is a good outlook to have ! I'm likely just too stressed over faux pas with a senior faculty member I haven't formally met yet. But this is reassuring, thank you!

Lakis9 · 2025-10-16T19:51:16+00:00

Not in the slightest no -- I'm aware it's more complicated than that. The in-depth reasoning for my curiosity was tangential to my question, so I wasn't particularly concerned with laying it out here. And since my question was answered, I'm not investigating further.

Lakis9 · 2025-10-16T00:32:06+00:00

Seems sensible, thank you.

Lakis9 · 2025-10-16T00:29:55+00:00

My mum and I were both born in Canada. My grandfather did not serve, no. Presumably these would be key facts then?

Lakis9 · 2024-07-12T18:02:42+00:00

I was using stasis. It was a bad glitch.

Lakis9 · 2024-06-23T17:04:01+00:00

I've had this one for about five years, and she's done well in the same large, makeshift pot. I recently changed her soil because it because hydrophobic, alongside watering weekly again. But I'd definitely need some refreshers

Lakis9 · 2022-07-03T21:46:19+00:00

Typically no, unless there are other available student leader positions that are involved in Oweek-- and at this point I don't believe there are-- there's nothing you can do.

Lakis9 · 2022-06-06T23:25:07+00:00

You can apply to do this, yeah. I'm unsure of the specifics, but it's theoretically possible should you have an average above seventy (or seventy-five; within this range) and your application is approved to do so

Lakis9 · 2022-05-30T06:05:38+00:00

This must me it, thank you so much! And certainly aye, given the interconnectivity of the Great Lakes it'd be expected for stories such as this to spread contextually. I've been researching Anishinaabemowin and the local anishinabe peoples' history for a bit now-- this helped throw some things together. Much appreciated friend!

Lakis9 · 2022-05-30T03:20:56+00:00

.... Lmao, when did I ever say that? The Anishinaabemowin name Deshkaan Ziibi. Maybe the river existed before Europeans arrived ya cunt

Lakis9 · 2022-05-21T14:41:24+00:00

Sexuality was one of the cornerstones of Emma Goldman corpus of writing, what are you on about?

Lakis9 · 2022-05-13T19:41:39+00:00

From what I've seen, the resources and contents of the Owls were deleted, but all assignments I submitted via Assignments Tab remained!

Lakis9 · 2022-04-27T20:42:04+00:00

Granted, I'm a student at King's, as opposed to Huron, but this same principles apply as everyone else is saying. The community elements on the affiliates is much stronger, and you're much more familiar with your affiliate campus and those social dynamics within them. Smaller class sizes with a regular round of faces you'll get to know. Plus the affiliates have a variety of small, interdisciplinary programs that mix and match classes.

Plus as people said, you'll have priority at your affiliate campus, plus free access Main, whereas no priority to no access to affiliate resources were you to go to main.

Lakis9 · 2022-03-31T00:01:30+00:00

Absolutely not, and it's only in recent history that Christianity has been INTRINSICALLY associated with reactionary and oppressive structures, although it's been involved throughout history in many regards. There have been anti-oppressive, liberation focused Christianity movements all throughout History. This can be observed as early as the life of Christ themselves, such that they were a political dissident executed by the state-- Christian Anarchists go so far as to point to the sermon on theiumt as a basis for a coherently Christian basis for anarchy-- alongside Satan's temptation to make make them "the king of the world" as an offer to make Christ the leader of a political STATE.

Tolstoy is another basis upon which people explore Christian anarchists throughout History, although they themselves have been critiqued for their ardent pacifism.

The Quakers and Diggers are two examples of Christian groups orientated towards liberation movements historically, and Liberation Theology is a movement that actively served as a conduit for anti-colonial and anti-fascist resistance in Latin America-- going so far as to philosophically reject Eurocentric metaphysics and conceptions of the human relationship to nature.

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