Recap: First Week
I have to admit, I am one of the lucky few Masters students who doesn’t work full-time while attending school. Last year, I probably could have pulled off working part-time while attending school, but this semester I’m actually thankful that I don’t have to work. Yes, that’s how much work is piling up already, and I had a grand total of TWO classes of my four.
One of those classes is Health Economics, which I can already tell will be one of those classes where I’m going to do the work because I enjoy it. The way it’s set up, I can argue to my heart’s content and call it a “discussion.” I love those classes, and that’s precisely why engineering and I didn’t work out. I like thinking outside of the box, thank you, even if that means I’m so far outside I’m on another planet. Engineering, at least at the undergraduate level, was too much of “Teach me so that I might learn, O Great Professor” for me to swallow. Maybe I would have enjoyed it a little more as a Master’s student, but I’m already so far gone in public health there’s no use in event thinking about it.
The other class is a Seminar in Epidemiology which requires lots of reading and reading and oh, more reading, but it’s so worth it. I feel like I’m actually doing something related to my field, and my professor is so much more intelligent and engaging than my previous ones this summer that I’m really excited.
So all in all, not a bad haul so far, but the next two will happen on Monday so that ought to be interesting. Woo.
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