5 september 2025
It feels like today just sort of vanished away from me, but the bulk of it was spent setting up some organizational systems and tweaking them as needed. I should be good for note backups, and my deadlines are nice and neatly sorted- with a handy email tracker I also set up to make my life quite a lot easier when trying to rummage around and remember what on earth I'm supposed to be sifting out of my inbox at any given point in time. Also got through the week's readings ahead of time for Thursday, though I'll still be working on them primarily for Monday and Tuesday to try to build a sort of buffer in for my most reading heavy class.
Hopefully the access issue has been fixed, since I've been told that it should be resolved at the moment, though it will need to be tested come Monday. It's really just a few more days of headway for the systems to figure out the fritz on their own, so that's good.
Got in a good conversation with Dan and wrote a bit with P, so today was not all doom and despair under the crushing weight of studying, or anything. I also found some really interesting points from the textbook I was sifting through that would come in handy for implementing a more formal structure to some hobbyist group ideas I've had floating around in the background, so it was actually fairly interesting to learn- and the material so far is pretty easy to digest, and I feel confident about my grasp of it. I tried to type my notes, but I think I've sort of lost the ability to- and since I need to retain the information for our term paper, and the group discussions, I think it's best to write them out by hand anyway.
Very tired, again. I slept in quite a lot last night- nearly ten hours straight, which was much needed after such an early and busy day. But today was spent fairly productively. I think it takes me about two hours or so to do the readings so far for this course, which isn't all that bad, seeing as it's my heaviest in terms of the material covered, and that is more or less true on the workload they tell you to expect per credit hour so far.
Many emails were penned. I remember just how many of them were a bane during the academia hellhole of one's email inbox. But I've been making good use of my technology as of late, and pen and paper. So I feel as if, as Dan said- that I've landed on my feet, more or less. Should be hearing from him more consistently from now on, which is also nice. Yay! Yippee! My first week of grad school is now under my belt- and I feel pretty good about it, and how I've been conducting myself throughout it so far. Paring down on distractions and having a game plan going into it was a very good idea for me.