My first day of being a teaching assistant.  I was terrified that I'd say something dumb.  I felt like a stronger person than I expected, and at the end I had several students come up to consult with me on project topics for the semester ( Read more... )

Some days, being a grad student feels like a lot of waiting, whereas others I am painfully busy.  Today, I had a TA training session, then 3 hours of nothing, and then a meeting with the prof whose class I will be TAing.  The 3 hours of nothing were spent sitting in my (shared) office, making lists of tasks to do later and occasionally adding to my ( Read more... )

quick note - very little to do with graduate school, except for the strain it can cause on relationships ( Read more... )

Tonight I saw Julie & Julia with a good friend.  It inspired me to blog, though I have previously considered it an absurdly self-involved project.  In seeing the film, however, I was shown a far more useful side of blogging.  The main character, Julie Powell, uses a blog to track her progress of "cooking her way" through Julia Child's cookbook - I ( Read more... )