Grad school
I haven't posted in forever. It looks like I'll be posting more often though because I don't know anyone and I'll probably be spending many nights by myself in my room. :-\
This is my first week of grad school. So far so good. I've only had one class so far. We got a lot of homework, but it only meets on Mondays so Labor Day gives us 2 weeks to read the 3 chapters and go through the at least 2-3 hour training thing online. The training thing allows us to work with human subjects - it includes HIPAA and many other programs dealing with ethics and experimentation.
The prof I'm TA'ing for is really cool. Her name is Bianca, and she's originally from Germany. She really likes stats and she's about 2 weeks from finishing up her Ph.D.
Today was sad. I took Paul to the train station so he could go back to Port Huron. This is really gonna suck. He'll be at least 6 hours away in K-zoo, but more than 10 hours away in PH. His train left at 7:20am from Alton, so we got up at 5:30. Then I came home and made the mistake of taking a nap which only made me more tired. I TA'd this morning at 9:30 for a stats class. We just went over the syllabus. Which meant no one came to my office hours. But that's ok - I played on facebook for an hour. Then I bought my stats book for $135 (ugh!). Went home, ate lunch. Cashed my refund check (yay!), came home tried to get my bike seat on (and failed), read, and took a 3 hour nap. Woke up, finished reading for tomorrow, and now I'm playing on the computer and watching america's got talent. Boring!
I know things will pick up and I'll feel comfortable calling up someone from my cohort when I get bored, but right now I'm just realizing that I am absolutely alone. It really sucks. I was planning to explore the bike trails today but I couldn't figure out how to get my bike seat on and I took a long nap. It's already dark here and it's not even 9. It starts getting dark around 8, which sucks. When we left the apartment this morning around 6:15am it felt like 8 by how light it was out. ridic.
My schedule goes as such:
Mondays:
PSYC 573 Seminar in Personnel Psychology 12-2:50
Tuesdays:
TA for PSYC 220 9:30-10:45, Office hours 10:30-11:30
Wednesdays:
PSYC 574 Seminar in Organizational Psychology 9:30-12:20, Office hours 12:30-1:30, PSYC 520 Research Design & Inference I
Thursdays:
TA for PSYC 220 9:30-10:45, Office hours 10:30-11:30
This semester will be intense, but right now I'm having social withdrawals; I'm feeling very isolated. My neighbors aren't overly friendly. I don't know the people in my cohort well enough to just call someone yet. And my fiance just left. So, basically I'm having a pity party right now. Oh well.
This is my first week of grad school. So far so good. I've only had one class so far. We got a lot of homework, but it only meets on Mondays so Labor Day gives us 2 weeks to read the 3 chapters and go through the at least 2-3 hour training thing online. The training thing allows us to work with human subjects - it includes HIPAA and many other programs dealing with ethics and experimentation.
The prof I'm TA'ing for is really cool. Her name is Bianca, and she's originally from Germany. She really likes stats and she's about 2 weeks from finishing up her Ph.D.
Today was sad. I took Paul to the train station so he could go back to Port Huron. This is really gonna suck. He'll be at least 6 hours away in K-zoo, but more than 10 hours away in PH. His train left at 7:20am from Alton, so we got up at 5:30. Then I came home and made the mistake of taking a nap which only made me more tired. I TA'd this morning at 9:30 for a stats class. We just went over the syllabus. Which meant no one came to my office hours. But that's ok - I played on facebook for an hour. Then I bought my stats book for $135 (ugh!). Went home, ate lunch. Cashed my refund check (yay!), came home tried to get my bike seat on (and failed), read, and took a 3 hour nap. Woke up, finished reading for tomorrow, and now I'm playing on the computer and watching america's got talent. Boring!
I know things will pick up and I'll feel comfortable calling up someone from my cohort when I get bored, but right now I'm just realizing that I am absolutely alone. It really sucks. I was planning to explore the bike trails today but I couldn't figure out how to get my bike seat on and I took a long nap. It's already dark here and it's not even 9. It starts getting dark around 8, which sucks. When we left the apartment this morning around 6:15am it felt like 8 by how light it was out. ridic.
My schedule goes as such:
Mondays:
PSYC 573 Seminar in Personnel Psychology 12-2:50
Tuesdays:
TA for PSYC 220 9:30-10:45, Office hours 10:30-11:30
Wednesdays:
PSYC 574 Seminar in Organizational Psychology 9:30-12:20, Office hours 12:30-1:30, PSYC 520 Research Design & Inference I
Thursdays:
TA for PSYC 220 9:30-10:45, Office hours 10:30-11:30
This semester will be intense, but right now I'm having social withdrawals; I'm feeling very isolated. My neighbors aren't overly friendly. I don't know the people in my cohort well enough to just call someone yet. And my fiance just left. So, basically I'm having a pity party right now. Oh well.