Grad School breakdown

First semester is over and done! It was pretty hard, harder than I expected. There was a ton of readings- maybe 300 plus pages a week, plus writing, all with my 40 hours a week job. The classes were pretty quality, I think. Even though the same people talked every sessions (and yes, I was one of those talkers) each class seemed fairly lively and interesting.

Any problems I had seem to be with the pacing- sometimes I felt like we were going too fast, or too slow, over the material. Or I felt like what I wanted to talk about did not get addressed, or not in a helpful way to me. But this was the minority of the experience.

Writing my papers was also an interesting experience. One was fun, and flowed basically without much prompting- the challenge was editing for coherence. The other was very dry to me, but probably more logical and cohesive. I remembered how much I like to write.