William, Wolfgang, August, and Me

I have been in Ohio for one month and in grad school for one week.  I feel like I have pretty well conquered the bus system at this point. I can get from my apartment to my department building and back without any issues or any help from maps or apps. I also can get pretty much anywhere with the help of a route planning app. As for graduate classes, I'm a little bit horrified at the difference in feel between undergrad and grad. Mainly, I'm shocked at the fact that half of my professors just completely reject the times they're assigned to teach the class. "I don't want to be here that early/late" has been a sentence I've already heard multiple times and class meeting times have shifted and changed. As for the reading, none of it has been particularly harder, though there is one class that assigns a lot of it. Overall, I think it's manageable. In general, I already feel a little bit jaded about other graduate students. One class in particular fe...

The first week in Ohio is over. We survived. But, honestly, there were a few moments that felt like just barely. We went shopping for the first time at a store that was recommended to us as being "so inexpensive" and let me tell you, it was not. So inexpensive for a middle aged woman with an established household is very different than so inexpensive for three young people who don't yet have an income. We started the process of getting out mailing address set up, and oh my goodness, it's apparently a week long process. In the meantime, parents and employers breathe down our necks asking why we don't know our own mailing address. It's complicated, okay? And we don't know how to do this apartment thing. We bought a lot of cheap furniture that wasn't cheap enough. We have done so many loads of laundry, and found that half of the washers and driers don't work. No worries though. Unlike the rest of the residents, I am willing to call the number ...