Midterm paper returned. Anything under a 90 is allowed to rewrite for a better grade.

Indeed, fate is kind. I have received 90/100 - all I was asking for.

Update: That's all the graded material for that class. I don't have a number for class participation (30% of the total) but I'm going to assume pretty high. Back of the envelope estimate ( Read more... )

96 on last week's group presentation!

One of my classes has a regular weekly assignment, usually a page or two on the reading, due Monday nights. Opened the assignment for this week tonight to find this note ( Read more... )

Writing a midterm paper (my first real paper of grad school! eep!) on The Hunger Games (the movie, not even the book) for my Ethical Environment of Public Administration class. We're required to cite all of the class textbooks, including the one on US Administrative Law for Public Managers. I have until midnight to find a way to make that ( Read more... )

Apparently someone told my student loan company I was back in school. I guess technically two classes puts me over the important more-than-half-time line. I sure didn't do any paperwork, but I just got a letter saying my loans are in deferment until 2014.

Not going to stop making payments, if for no other reason than they're not going to stop ( Read more... )

There's lots these days. Not in a bad way. Mostly in a good way. But in a real and palpable way. I'm not overloaded, but I'm at a point where I need to be watching out, because overload will hit faster and harder than I expect ( Read more... )

Tuition remission processed!

We owe UB $475 in fees for the semester. Multiply by seven expected semesters and that's still not even four thousand dollars for a masters degree.

And it comes as a perk of a job I enjoy?

Not going to get over how cool that is.

Finished my first homework assignment yesterday. It... kind of kicked my ass, actually.

It was just short essay on the assigned reading. But I had entirely forgotten about the whole referencing thing, which meant I had done the reading in the least useful way possible and I had allocated my time all wrong and blargh. Being a good student is a ( Read more... )

There was a bit where someone erroneously directed me to the sixth floor of an un-air-conditioned elevator-free building ten minutes before the class started, but after that it all went well ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my first day of graduate classes ( Read more... )