Pretty please, help.

I am currently as we speak in the process of trying to figure out where I want to go, and since my college closed down after I graduated, I have no one to talk to about this sort of thing. No professors, no academic counselors, not even a large student body.

I just would like to know how any of you chose the school and program you went to. Do you have any advice for me at all? It seems like there's no easy database or anything like that, and I don't have the benefit of social networking or professors anymore. I have no idea how to get into this stuff, but I need to apply this year. I know the broad field I'm interested in of course, but I have no idea how to choose a school or program. I feel like if I did anything based on the information I currently have, it'd be like going in blind.

Note: This journal is a split off from the old journal kairotique which was discontinued. Comment to be added, I'll add almost anyone. It's all just friends only for dumb practical reasons like future employers.