I've got an MS from the UW Madison. It has served me well. I got to teach cs240b at Stanford with that MS (cs240b is the papers course in OS). Fun times. I

I've got an MS from the UW Madison. It has served me well. I got to teach cs240b at Stanford with that MS (cs240b is the papers course in OS). Fun times. I taught it on roller blades because I wasn't good enough to have parking so I had to park at the mall and skate in. If you are going to a good school where they actually work you (UW worked us well into the wee hours and they were a hacking school when I was there, I watched Joe Moran do a Unix port in 36 hours there - Joe is the guy who implemented the Sun VM system which is something Bill Joy imagined but couldn't do), if you are going to a school like that, go for it. For me the MS was just a chance to hang out with people who were doing real work. And learn from them.