Incidentally, if any of you wiser and more experienced people have brilliant ideas about my grad school future, please let me know. Really briefly, I'm in comp sci, will graduate from a good liberal arts college in May 04 with probably better than a 3.5 GPA. The CS program there is ok but not stellar. I'm good at programming and willing to work hard learning new things. I'll have two years of work experience when I get out of college, $10,000 in the bank, no loans, and be just 21. I'd like a school somewhere at least 400 miles from Pittsburgh, good programs, not in the Deep South - Eastern seaboard is ok but I'd die in Alabama, no offense to any southerners.
Any brilliant suggestions? My "dream choices" right now are Purdue, Stanford, U Colorado at Boulder, and Columbia.