Today is the first day of a new semester … a new school … and hopefully, an exciting, challenging, and fulfilling new adventure.
I don’t have a class today myself, but I am assisting a professor with his first class meetings this afternoon. So, rather than break my neck to get to campus early this morning, I took my time coming in and arrived to campus around 9:30. Very respectful! Unfortunately, it seems like most of Vanderbilt decided to err on the side of arriving insanely early, so I had to circle campus for the better part of a half-hour looking for a parking spot. I can already see that even a little bit of sleeping in here is going to have severe consequences!
The graduate program here basically has classes at two times: 9:10 a.m. or 1:10 p.m. Honestly, even though it was sometimes nice to have late-afternoon classes at UTD, I think I’m really going to like wrapping up my coursework by 4:00 every day. It really does make graduate school here feel like a 9-5 job, which is as it should be. If, like today, I can force myself onto campus hours earlier than I need to be here (particularly those three days a week when I DON’T have class at 9 a.m.), then I really should (at least in theory) be able to get a lot of my reading done here … and so much the better.
Anyway, I am just excited to here, glad classes start this week, and hopeful for the next few months. 🙂