First of all I let me say that I do love the summer....I mean who doesn't? For me the summer symbolizes warm breezy days, iced tea, the pool, being with friends outside, and all those other things that you can only enjoy during these long summer months (when it actually feels like the summer has FLOWN by).
I never really felt like my first week of graduate school would ever get here. After the insanity of applying to graduate school last year I never felt it would REALLY happen.
Those of you who have applied to graduate school know where I am coming from.
In the midst of all the paperwork you have to fill out there are sending out transcripts, meeting harsh deadlines, paying expensive fees to SEND your application in, taking the GRE exams and making sure your score is high enough, making sure you G.P.A. is good enough to be competitive...and then waiting for months to hear back....you feel like this
But all that hell is worth it in the long run. Anything good is really worth the hardships you endure to reach that critical point of happiness.
My first week of graduate school is so much different that my undergraduate classes. The work is far more demanding and yet I find myself feeling more at ease than I ever did in my undergraduate classes.
In my graduate classes there are no exams, pop quizzes, attendance sheets, etc.
Instead they treat you like an adult, expect you to do the work and show up. I will happily read 2-3 books a week instead of freaking out over 3 exams and 2 papers all due within the same 5 day time frame like I used to.
It's very refreshing to be on a new academic level with new standards in how things are being taught and how you are expected to excel.
Already I feel like this is a very nurturing environment and I really am excited because this is just one more tiny baby step towards my ultimate goal of being a professor.
I am actually a teaching (or graduate) assistant this semester to a History 101 class and it's fantastic. I have my own "office" (aka a windowless room with cubicles) to meet students. But HEY it's a beginning. It's one more office than I had three months ago LOL!
So I feel like life is good right now...I can read my fill of history, truly studying something that I love and WANT to spend the rest of my life researching and reading about and eventually teaching!
Sorry if this blog seems boring to you, but to me I just feel very accomplished and now that I am at that point in my life where everything seems to be coming together it is a very delightful feeling
.
So thank you to all my TMF friends who have been there for me this past year when a lot of stuff has happened...but I am glad it did, good and bad, because it led me to this very happy place that I will be in for the next two years as I slowly progress towards my Masters and the graduating class of 2010!!
~Perse <3
I never really felt like my first week of graduate school would ever get here. After the insanity of applying to graduate school last year I never felt it would REALLY happen.
Those of you who have applied to graduate school know where I am coming from.
In the midst of all the paperwork you have to fill out there are sending out transcripts, meeting harsh deadlines, paying expensive fees to SEND your application in, taking the GRE exams and making sure your score is high enough, making sure you G.P.A. is good enough to be competitive...and then waiting for months to hear back....you feel like this
But all that hell is worth it in the long run. Anything good is really worth the hardships you endure to reach that critical point of happiness.
My first week of graduate school is so much different that my undergraduate classes. The work is far more demanding and yet I find myself feeling more at ease than I ever did in my undergraduate classes.
In my graduate classes there are no exams, pop quizzes, attendance sheets, etc.
Instead they treat you like an adult, expect you to do the work and show up. I will happily read 2-3 books a week instead of freaking out over 3 exams and 2 papers all due within the same 5 day time frame like I used to.
It's very refreshing to be on a new academic level with new standards in how things are being taught and how you are expected to excel.
Already I feel like this is a very nurturing environment and I really am excited because this is just one more tiny baby step towards my ultimate goal of being a professor.
I am actually a teaching (or graduate) assistant this semester to a History 101 class and it's fantastic. I have my own "office" (aka a windowless room with cubicles) to meet students. But HEY it's a beginning. It's one more office than I had three months ago LOL!
So I feel like life is good right now...I can read my fill of history, truly studying something that I love and WANT to spend the rest of my life researching and reading about and eventually teaching!
Sorry if this blog seems boring to you, but to me I just feel very accomplished and now that I am at that point in my life where everything seems to be coming together it is a very delightful feeling
.So thank you to all my TMF friends who have been there for me this past year when a lot of stuff has happened...but I am glad it did, good and bad, because it led me to this very happy place that I will be in for the next two years as I slowly progress towards my Masters and the graduating class of 2010!!
~Perse <3
