Grad School Success !
Today was my first day in my grad school curriculum. I was so incredibly nervous and anxious. I wasn’t expecting it(anxiety) to be quite as bad as it was last night and this morning. After I got over my initial fear when I entered the Student Union, I did well. At least my knees stopped shaking.
In my class, I learned that my syllabus and first lecture was online. Ugh. How come no one bothered to tell me about the little feature called "blackboard" ? Once I started taking notes in class, it dawned on me that grad school is a whole lot like undergrad school. Lots of taking notes. Lots of studying. Hmmmm, is this what I signed up for ?
I talked some to the girl sitting next to me. She informed me that half of the class was taking "neuro" again for the 2nd time. I asked "why ?". She told me that they all flunked the midterm. Oh, joy. I don’t think I was prepared for my first class to be that tough.
On a fun note regarding today, I bought a "human brain" coloring book. Woohoo. I’m going to have fun. I also learned about a book that sounds very interesting. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It was written by a man who had a major stroke and could only communicate using his left eye. I can’t wait to read it.
And just so you don’t think I’ve lost my nerdness somewhere along the way I assure you that I have not. Here’s proof:
See how bad I look ? That’s from no sleep the night before. Anxiety, baby.
I’m excited about going back to school. Lots of reading and memorization to be done already. Let the games begins !
