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I’m tired. I’m neck-sore, hunched-over-my-books tired and it’s only the second week of school. I’m enjoying the classes but it’s weird having a new hobby that involves studying for a minimum of four hours after I get home from school which has usually been around 6 or 7 at night.

So far, school has been fun. Yes, I am unbelievably busy, but at least it’s for something I care about. I could be stuck at my old job working on a project I hate. Instead, I’m learning how to calculate depreciation and how to tackle a team project.

Yesterday, someone asked me what I thought of the program so far. I said that I think the professors expect a lot out of us, but that their goal is not to watch us crash and burn. Despite the unholy amount of homework and reading, I know that our profs want us to succeed.

It’s 10pm and I just put the finishing touches on my stats homework. Now on to accounting….

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Danny bought a DS lite yesterday. While I was having a bonding experience with my teammates, he was battling for acquittal in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. He’d been putting off buying the lite for a while. Since I was going back to school, he didn’t want to drop the cash on something that was simply an upgrade of something he already owned (the original Nintendo DS). However, this was a BIG upgrade. Aside from being significantly smaller than the original DS, the lite is much much brighter. That is, to say, that the screen is twice as bright.

After subsidizing my $600 of books and course packs plus my $500 in MBA club dues (I like clubs), he figured it was time to invest in something new and shiny for himself. I’m glad he got it because I knew he’d been lusting after one for months. Aside from the money issue, he held off from buying one because they were only available in ipod white. Bleaggtthh. The new colors are pink and black. I pushed for the pink one, but he went for classic black. Now he has a gameboy advance, a gamecube, a DS, a DS Lite, and he’ll soon own the Wii. Hell, I might even play on the Wii. It looks so cool.

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The difference between my undergraduate experience and my limited graduate school experience is significant.

1. To begin with, I know almost all of my classmates. In undergrad, I usually only knew the person sitting next to me in class.
2. I don’t hate studying. I’ve done nearly six hours of homework today and I’m cool with that. Granted, I knew that I would have little to no free time once classes began and I’m finding that yes, I still have time to sleep AND get most of my work done.
3. The content is interesting. Even accounting, which I feared (and still do) is interesting.
4. My teachers are normal people, or at least they’ve fooled me so far. Unlike undergraduate courses, we’re not treated like idiots. Looking back, a lot of us were total idiots at 19 and 20, so I can’t really blame the professors.
5. I can manage my time wisely. Granted, doing homework on Saturday isn’t fun fun, but getting it done now rather than waking up in a cold sweat thinking about a pending assignment is pretty valuable.
6. We’re in it together. Our teachers encourage group work. They want us to turn in individual assignments and complete group projects. There’s no point in copying off of someone else because homework doesn’t count nearly as much as the exams do. Therefore, it is best to spend time trying to understand the material rather than get all A’s on homework that is only worth 10% of your grade.

I realize that this may be obvious to most people, but it makes a lot more sense to me now that I’m older (and wiser, ha!). Instead of just plowing through school with hopes of getting a decent job when I graduate, I want to instead take interesting classes, work really hard, get to know some cool people, and ultimately LEARN a lot. Quitting a good job and going back to school was a tough decision. I’m not going to fuck it up.

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