First of all I'm interested in finding out your opinions about some of the better schools. The degrees I have been looking at are game programming, game design, and game development. I have been looking at Fullsail, UAT, and Westwood mainly. I am curious to hear what others think of these schools, or if you have suggestions for other schools.

Finally, I would like to hear some of the places you guys work, what your job title is and what a typical day is like. I would also like to know the differences between programming, development, and design as far as what a typical day is like, what are some of the required skills, etc.
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I work as a software engineer at a place that does digital advertisements, as well as some statistics associated with them. In practical terms, programming and development are interchangable terms. There's a lot of programming, program design, requirements gathering, documentation, testing, communication involved. Design in gamedev involves creating the rules of the game (and often lots more). Making sure (mathematically) that certain parts of the game aren't too overpowered, creating rules to achieve business goals, etc.

This particular position is fairly programming heavy compared to some I've been at. A typical day, I spend about 30 minutes writing code, 90 minutes writing unit tests, 15 minutes reporting what I'm doing, 45 minutes pushing other people into doing what they're supposed to be doing, 2-3 hours debugging things or helping QA reproduce stuff, 30 minutes figuring out what the hell people want me to build, and a bunch of random other bits or variance.