Its going to be a long two years!

So two weeks into graduate school and here is my opinion- it sucks. Grad school sucks. I don't understand where teachers think we are going to pull the amount of time needed to do all this work from. I have it easy compared to some of my classmates who are parents that work full-time jobs during the day and then come to class at night. I have a job that requires me to work from 8:30-5 three days a week and I am dying trying to find time to get in all my work. You add my half-marathon training on top of those two and I am barely getting a torture victim's amount of sleep. I had no idea graduate school would be this hard! You know how in high school all of your teachers try to freak you out by saying "college is much harder, you have to study every night and work all the time".....yeah no. I graduated with honors and I was about as stressed as a 5 year old. I was kind of hoping that all the talk about how hard graduate school was would be the same deal, but boy was I wrong. I'm really hoping that at some point (very soon) grad school will just click and I will be able to get through it- just like how it happened with undergrad.

Speaking of undergrad, I went to Clemson this past weekend for the first home game and gosh it was amazing to be back there. Almost the entire gang was there so we all got to catch up. Over the summer I have buried myself with so much that I have almost forgotten how much I miss it all. I miss my Clemson friends more than words can even explain. We are scattered all over the country and its truly heartbreaking for me. There is nothing like being together in Clemson. I do hope that we keep up the annual ski and beach trips, although that will be much harder to coordinate with 9 different schedules. I never really understood all the talk about how college is your best years until now. It really was the best time of my life. Graduate school is absolutely nothing compared to it.

I think I've complained enough for one night. I'm hoping that things get better with school and I learn to find time for everything that needs to get done. Here is to being optimistic for the future!