I successfully graduated from college!! And now I'm going back to school...
Haha, don't give me that face. I'm now officially a graduate student, whether I actually feel like one is another story. I'm going to school in Baltimore, Maryland. While I've lived in the awesome state of MD my whole life, I've never lived in a city, and now I do! I live smack in the middleish area of Baltimore. (In other words, look at "Baltimore" (the word) on a map, look a few centimeters left or so and thereabouts is where I live).
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| My cat chilling, but I do not have cats or pets where I live now... :( |
I moved in on the 26th of June, and to be honest, it wasn't bad. I met a roommate, unpacked and got settled. Let's say, for a first night in a new place, I slept well. The next day, I had orientation and got my first taste of walking to UMB and walking around campus. It was easy, it took me a short 12 minutes to get to the building I needed to, and I felt relatively safe- other people were walking around and it's not like the campus is a ghetto, it's just close to some sketchy areas. All in all, it really wasn't bad, until this past Monday. Both my roommates moved out, and I was on my own, awaiting news of more roommates from my landlord (a really nice guy!).
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| My "study area" |
Let me clear up somethings. When I'm in a new place, I don't sleep well for at least a week. When I'm alone in a house I have trouble sleeping. And if you add these onto the fact that I am now living in a city and that city happens to be Baltimore...Well, you can imagine. I stressed out and was so anxious that I would loose my appetite and food would make me nauseous just by looking at it. I took forever to fall asleep, and let's just say I was tired of being tired.
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| Old School |
Then suddenly, it all changed. What changed? why? when? Well, I took out the trash at 5:30 am and suddenly realized that being afraid, stressed out, and anxious wasn't helping, and wasn't doing me anything. (You might argue that anxiety/fear allow you to be more aware, but I have no problem being aware/not getting complacent when it comes to safety). So I stopped. I accepted my new home as my home and figured I'd treat it the same way as everywhere else I've lived (except that I keep everything locked up tight and only unlock it to move inside or outside the house). I lock doors before. I just would keep doors unlocked when I'm home until I went to bed. Now I just lock doors all the time no matter what :)
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| My Craft Corner (But now there is even more stuff there!) |
So, I'm done with my first week of school. I'm taking a summer bridge course and rotating in a lab. The class is straightforward and not graded, fairly basic, and shouldn't be a lot of work. The lab is pretty cool. It is exciting for me to be starting anew in a lab. It's especially interesting for me to start analyzing the differences between this lab and my lab from undergrad (especially since technically I might be able to go back to working in my undergrad lab). Like, in my last lab I was being taught directly from the PI for the first ~6 months since it was a new lab and here, I am being taught by a grad student. So far I am interested in the lab I am in, but we'll see if I can or want to join the lab in a month and a half or so.
Well, have a nice summer- I'll be reporting on somethings I've been doing in the kitchen, the apple trees, and even an amigurumi or two over the next week or two.
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| Cute book I had to buy from Amazon |
~Sarah
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