Tomorrow, I begin my graduate studies.
I remember my first day of undergrad. I was terrified. I got horribly lost on campus, trying to find my way back to the dorm. Santa Cruz felt like an isolated maze, in which, I was its prisoner.
So much time has passed.
And yet, still, I find myself being pretty nervous about starting school tomorrow.
I find myself worrying about what I’ll wear. I’m anxious about how my life will change. I’m worrying, already, about homework and 25-page papers. I’m worrying about commuting.
And, simultaneously, as I begin my first day as a student, Obama will be inaugurated and I will no longer be [as] ashamed to tell people outside of the U.S. that I’m a citizen of this crazy country.
New beginnings, all around.
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I am SO STOKED for tomorrow’s Inauguration!
I was terrified to start graduate school…and I ended up loving every second of it!
I am so excited about tomorrow!!!
I know it’s nerve wracking, but it’s so exciting too! Good luck tomorrow!
I think it’s pretty amazing that Obama is getting sworn in the day after MLK day. Very excited about the possibilities! Cheers!
Break a leg!
you and me both, sister. you’re going to do AMAZING. xo
i can’t explain the magnitude with which i am jealous that you get to spend tomorrow learning. i guess one could say i am learning too, locked at my computer – but somehow the pursuit of knowledge is best rewarded by A’s, B’s and C’s – not a salary.
good luck getting back in the grind! you’re going to do great!!!!!
good luck getting back in the grind! you’re going to do great!!!!!
Oh my gosh! You must be so anxious & excited!
Have a great time easing back into school, and into this new version of school. You’ll knock their socks off.
good luck with school!!
as a random sidenote, I love the Santa Cruz campus :)
good luck in your expansions and contractions tARW (your mind and your world, respectively)
Good luck.
Good luck Tristan!
I still have a year and a half left of undergrad left but I can feel grad school looming like that beast your parents always told you wasn’t in the closet but you knew was laughing at their naivete.
And hooray for new beginnings!
P. S. the new blog is up at theoddduckling.wordpress.com
I just wanted to wish you luck with beginning graduate school. It’s completely understandable to be nervous (I know I was), but I’m sure you’ll do great once you get settled in!
how exciting for you! you will be so great today!
You will be fine!
I promise :-)
I hope your first day is going well. Enjoy and lots of luck. Fill us in later.
My uni happens to be in D.C. so it is a day of from academic instruction.
Hope you’re day went amazingly well!
That’s how I hope my day goes when I start next week. Eeeeee.
All, Thank for your wonderful wishes of luck! Yesterday was exhausting and I walked away with a ton of reading! But I think I’m thrilled to be a student again. I hope you all got to watch some of the inauguration — I was in my car, commuting. But when I got to campus, I walked through the library and they had a television in the corridor broadcasting the whole thing. There were a bunch of students gathered around watching. It was quite moving.
Happy No-More-Bush’s to you!!
And, to those who are starting school, like myself, wishes of luck right back ‘atcha!
I’m a little behind on reading, but I hope it went great!
Sounds like it went well! What did you wear?
I hope your first day was fantastic!
Congrats on deciding to go to grad school. It is a difficult choice to make but so worthwhile. Good luck on your studies.
wow i am jealous. i so want to go back to school..
get a masters, too.