First day of Grad School

School has finally started! Right now I am sitting in my office (shared betwixt 8 of us), having just come from the first lecture for the course I am teaching. My work assignment works thus: 2 days a week the students attend a 48 minute (not sure WHY 48 exactly...) given by the course administrator, then 2 days a week they meet with me for 48 minutes for "recitation" (what we would call a "discussion" session at the U). I have 3 recitation sections with whom I meet twice a week. I am solely responsible for the content of the recitations, having been given only a brief outline of what we should cover. It's great! I get to run my own classes, covering material my way. I have an awesome job!

In addition to this, I hold office hours 3 hours a week, and of course have my own classes to attend. Later today I have the first meeting for my Theatre Criticism class, then tomorrow I have Research Methods.

Having finally met my fellow grad. students, many of my fears regarding legitimacy have been allayed. I AM ready for this, I DO think like a grad. student, I AM as prepared (in some cases BETTER prepared) as my colleagues. I certainly have A LOT to learn, but I think I belong here.

This past week has been nuts--meeting after meeting after meeting, but now that I have some time to think it over, I realize the overall value of all of the (literally) heaps of information I have received in the past week.

I guess I am now a Buckeye for the realsies!

SORRY!

My faithful reader (s) tell me that it has been far too long between posts, and for that I apologize. I'd like to say that I have been really busy, but I don't think I have--in truth, I have been twiddling my proverbial thumbs waiting for school to start.

I have promised to post pictures of my new house with decorations. My wife has just put some on her blog, and rather than just re-posting them here, I will provide you with THIS link--

http://repottingthefamilytree.blogspot.com/

Anyway, I start orientation classes on Tuesday, just a mere 2 days after my 31st birthday. Somehow I really feel like a fraud, like I am in no way qualified to attend grad school--let alone teach at THE Ohio State University.

I now have to run out the door--I will post more later to discuss that fraud-like feeling, and to tell you all about the Utah/Michigan football game that I went to!