10.01.2004

the.first.month

As you can tell from this post title and date, I was supposed to write something about my first month in grad school and how my perspective of what was required changed from just an, if you can excuse the expression, academic one. I guess the failure to write is just a symptom of the true nature of the whole grad school situation. Talk about late nights and long days of wavefunctions and electrostatics. I guess the real issue is one of time. It takes time to understand exactly what it is you need to do and what that means to really understand the material. So I have finally, one more month removed, figured out and come to terms with the studying and the homework and the cutting of my free time more than in half. Am I completely on top of it all? No. Is it all easy? No.