26 November 2006, 10:11 PM

Grad school and such

It's funny--I'm much busier now with grad school than I think I've ever been, but it's much easier than my busy times in undergrad.

For one thing, I don't really have many friends here yet (I've only been here a couple of months, after all) and so I'm not spending a lot of time hanging out with people. That sounds sort of depressing but it's fine--I have some friends, just not a plethora.

Mostly, though, I think it's the lack of busy work. Most semesters I had some kind of class that was way too easy, and it's...draining. I guess it's like pushing the gas pedal on your car when you're in neutral, or something--the engine revs, but you don't really go anywhere, so you get wear & tear for no purpose. But all my stuff is hard now! Wow! But not impossibly so--it's stuff I feel like I can do, just not stuff I know how to do the minute I look at it.

I haven't been writing much so I'm determined to start doing an hour a day (probably after finals--it strikes me as a horrible idea to stick to that kind of plan the week I need to start studying, when I'm still cold). It's been so long since I've really written a lot that the normal banked oven of skill is totally dead and everything on the back burners is gelatinous and kind of disgusting, so I should build up slowly--so I'm counting correspondence and blog posts, for the moment. (I seem to have a thing for inappropriate analogies at the moment.)

In good news, I just got a Levenger lap desk for my birthday (a little early since I was home). Yay for working on soft surfaces!

Thus wrote Melanie in the categories: Science
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