After a long bout of depression after submitting my applications, I finally got my first response, an offer of admission, from a grad school today, and am immensely relieved. Any other Massassians apply to grad schools or professional schools this year?

not till next year (or after depending on whether I get this year long paid internship) but congrats!!

I was going to apply, but I changed my plans.

Probably not... I was thinking about it when I began my college years, but business school has systematically eroded my earlier affinities for liberal arts education.

I was thinking of applying for a computer science or MBA degree, I'll probably go the MBA route after several years in industry.

I've applied to eight law schools and I'm working on a ninth now, all of the applications sent in fairly late in the process. I've yet to hear from anyone. Actually getting a little worried about my letters of recommendation, as I have absolutely no evidence that they arrived in time, or at all.

Those recs are required by all but two of the schools I applied to.

wouldn't that just be a job?

Kinda. 3 years of internship are required to take the licensing exam for architecture in the U.S... you can almost universally get paid for that work though, as you pretty much have to do it after you obtain your degree, and it's full time work.

The only reason these schools exist is so people that contractually get raises based on more education (nurses, teachers), can get a retardedly easy masters degree without really doing anything.

Everyone else will just laugh at you if you show up with a masters from an online college.

Sure, if you don't want anyone to take you seriously.

Yeah, funny thing. In the U.S. many internships are paid. Sucks to be you, I guess.