A Whole New World

Tomorrow marks the end of my summer of leisure--two classes to teach for two days a week for 3 hours a session. My 7th-grade-teacher self would laugh at such a pithy teaching schedule, but six hours of teaching in a day seems like a loooong time to this graduate student.

In addition to adjusting to my new teaching schedule, I'm also dealing with being relegated to the status of a regular ol' student. This demotion occurred when I got kicked out of my office. Today I found myself not working in my own cozy corner with a door baring my name, but rather in the grand reading room of the university library. I also had to visit not one, but two computer labs to print stuff and pay for this printing. Without a place to dump my crap, I strategically shoved copies for tomorrow in my mailbox and made a long written list of all materials that I needed to schlep from my home office to campus tomorrow.

*key music from the world's smallest violin*

But despite the minor inconveniences, it was rather refreshing to be among the masses, to actually remember what it was like to be just a regular student, and actually see and experience parts of campus I had only heard existed.

It's like a whole new world out there.