yeeeehaw for grad school.
after taking last year off, I'm 8 weeks into my last year.
Still on the digital/zoom/distance learning platform even though I live 15 minutes up the road. I thought I wouldn't like it, but to be real, I very much prefer not having to leave the house and all that than spending 2 days, 8am-8pm, on campus, wearing a mask with people I probably don't want to hang out with and trying to get work done in hallways and shit.
I'm fortunate that my job is my internship, but it also means that while I've got full time class 2days, I've got work the other 3 days. At least on the weekend, I can go into my space at work and use it in lieu of a library for writing papers and doing research (class is one thing, y'all know that writing papers never goes well at home...)
It's a fairly intensive thing going on this year- 5 standard classes plus two additional 90 minute half seminars per week and a monthly 3 hour collaborative seminar for a grant I was awarded. Developing two very different mindfulness based SEL curricula, while implementing it real time and also collecting data.
It's super busy but I'm stoked because it's got me on the road to sustaining myself by a really higher level of work. It feels good to have the gears turning again
For anyone wanting to try grad school or going back to school, it's hard at first but it gets easier. It'll be 19 years from the time I ended high school til the time I earned a Masters.