Thursday, September 01, 2005
Ouch!
Today I have the second meeting for one of my classes, and it looks like this is going to be a very good year. I'm excited about what we're reading, and I'm only hoping to stay ahead of the curve so as to avoid being completely crushed by that "never-able-to-keep-up-with-it-all" feeling.
It'll help that I've quit the job which used to eat up all my evenings. Even though I will have to work at school now, not having something four week nights AND Saturday morning will inject a fair portion of sanity into the schedule. Even if one works the SAME number of hours in a week, it's amazing how much different it feels when those hours come at different points in the day. This year's goal: to get as much homework/jobwork out of the way as possible during the day, so I may salvage what's left of the evening.
Let's be realistic, though--as a graduate student I'm going to have to toss a number of delicious evenings down the hungry gullet of the Workload, but that's okay. At least I know what to expect. I can only imagine the feelings of my fellow first-year student who, after registering for his three classes, was so certain he'd have a ton of free time that he took a full-time job.
These students have the first session of their Introduction to Graduate Studies bootcamp class this evening, and we're going out with any of them who take our invitation afterward. I sympathize with all of them--I think all of us second-year students do, as they did when I was a first-year. After tonight, with the full workload of their classes arrayed before them, the shock should be settling in. Of course, it's nothing you can't survive.
But at first it does feel like one's mistaken a porcupine for something tasty...
It'll help that I've quit the job which used to eat up all my evenings. Even though I will have to work at school now, not having something four week nights AND Saturday morning will inject a fair portion of sanity into the schedule. Even if one works the SAME number of hours in a week, it's amazing how much different it feels when those hours come at different points in the day. This year's goal: to get as much homework/jobwork out of the way as possible during the day, so I may salvage what's left of the evening.
Let's be realistic, though--as a graduate student I'm going to have to toss a number of delicious evenings down the hungry gullet of the Workload, but that's okay. At least I know what to expect. I can only imagine the feelings of my fellow first-year student who, after registering for his three classes, was so certain he'd have a ton of free time that he took a full-time job.
These students have the first session of their Introduction to Graduate Studies bootcamp class this evening, and we're going out with any of them who take our invitation afterward. I sympathize with all of them--I think all of us second-year students do, as they did when I was a first-year. After tonight, with the full workload of their classes arrayed before them, the shock should be settling in. Of course, it's nothing you can't survive.
But at first it does feel like one's mistaken a porcupine for something tasty...
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