i actually bought the kaplan a couple weeks ago and began looking through it. carton and mad hero had great points on building that network. I can’t hear that enough from everyone. Northwestern was one of my choices, but I did not know about there new program carton mentioned. That’s very interesting. I am originally from chicago and i love it! good reason to go back. Is Chicago a good area in the product design industry? only because my next question would be whether i go full time or part time. Thanks for the replies