(no subject)
Aug. 22nd, 2007 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikHaving a 3+ hour grad school orientation on the same day as the placement exam has got to be in violation of some article in the Geneva Accords. Which doesn't, I'm sure, apply to grad students anyway.
This isn't distress, just frustration at the mind numbingly uselessness of it all. And I know I could have gotten away with skipping orientation, but I have these impulses towards being a good citizen, or something... But hey, I have a t-shirt, now, and a folder thing. The folder thing is actually kind of neat.
And I have done absolutely nothing useful in the lab today, nor will I.
Still no news on whether I'm going to be excused from the other half of the core curriculum.
On the plus side, I have acquired an advisor, and she has recommended a second class for me to take if indeed I do get out of the whole C3MB series. Oh, and I've also gotten another several people I should talk about regarding rotations. (The list is annoying, and I always feel awkward writing the notes asking for a meeting. But the meetings themselves are highly worthwhile, so I persevere.)
This isn't distress, just frustration at the mind numbingly uselessness of it all. And I know I could have gotten away with skipping orientation, but I have these impulses towards being a good citizen, or something... But hey, I have a t-shirt, now, and a folder thing. The folder thing is actually kind of neat.
And I have done absolutely nothing useful in the lab today, nor will I.
Still no news on whether I'm going to be excused from the other half of the core curriculum.
On the plus side, I have acquired an advisor, and she has recommended a second class for me to take if indeed I do get out of the whole C3MB series. Oh, and I've also gotten another several people I should talk about regarding rotations. (The list is annoying, and I always feel awkward writing the notes asking for a meeting. But the meetings themselves are highly worthwhile, so I persevere.)
