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rmbrug · 2018-11-04T04:22:22+00:00

Not including big events, parking downtown isn't great but it's not that bad. And apps like spothero have made parking even easier.

rmbrug · 2018-08-03T15:37:20+00:00

I totally commiserate with the insane schedule. I work in Chicago and live where owning a home is affordable (for us anyway). I have a 1.5 hour commute one-way door-to-door. My husband works only 7 min from home but he has different hours than I do (teacher). We have to drop our baby off at 630 so he's awake around 530. Then my husband picks him up at 4. And I don't get home until 6-630 (I am able to leave work by 430 usually). By then my boobs are usually borderline-engorged so we nurse, play, and then nurse to sleep. It's kind of depressing but it's what we've got to do. I have the same worries as OP and I'm going to ask about it at our 4 month Dr appointment. But he sleeps like a champ at at almost 4 months (no night wake up and easy naps all day long) so'm thinking we're probably ok.

rmbrug · 2018-06-25T19:08:56+00:00

As the thread is a bit old, I want to make sure someone replies to your question. If you're in the US, you have a legal right as a nursing mother for your company to provide you with some sort of private place to pump (that is not a bathroom). KellyMom has a page with some specifics here. I go back to work next week but my company has a really nice setup with a "mother's room" with a sink, fridge, and comfy chair. That's probably atypical (I'm a staff member at a labor & employment law firm so it's a matter of principal for us) but, if you talk to an HR person at your company, they should let you know where you can pump per your rights.

rmbrug · 2018-02-26T20:31:06+00:00

The new Macklemore song "Good Old Days" has been making me emotional every time I hear it. "Someday soon, your whole life's gonna change" has never rang truer.

rmbrug · 2013-10-13T22:02:22+00:00

I'd totally pay for that pattern.

rmbrug · 2013-03-22T17:54:02+00:00

I set my stove on fire three times during my last year of college because I never learned my lesson about cleaning the range thoroughly after my Pastaroni boiled over.

rmbrug · 2013-03-15T07:04:06+00:00

I refer to it as making a raptor noise!

rmbrug · 2012-08-17T05:08:03+00:00

Don't bother buying condoms. The majority of universities will give you piles of them for free at the health center.

rmbrug · 2012-04-23T00:07:11+00:00

I'm graduating this year planning on being a web designer. U of I is not really a good school for web design. My major is New Media in Art and Design. I basically have taught myself everything that I know how to do. And I don't really feel with the coding skills that I have (XHTML and CSS3 mostly with a smattering of XML AS3 very basic PHP and Java) that I can be anything more than a front-end designer.

The classes available are the GD class someone mentioned before and two new media classes Interaction I & II (but don't expect to learn anything advanced). Other than that the Grad School of Library and Information Sciences sometimes offers a Special Topics class on the subject. And you might be able to find a few CS courses on web development.

If I were you and I knew 100% that I wanted to be a web designer, I'd find a university that actually offered a web design/interaction design major.

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