I miss my old life.

[Flybye]

I am deep in the 2nd semester of grad school and I miss lazy days hanging out on TE. I miss you all.................................
Just thought I'd tell you!

[tulip]

Hi Flybye! What are you studying? The good thing about grad school (at least for Masters) is that it's often shorter than undergrad...you'll be done before you know it!

[Crankin]

Hang in there. How long is your program, Flybye? Mine is 3 years. I feel like I'm getting a pass this year, because it's just classes. The next 2 years I have to do a 24 hour a week internship and manage to take 3 classes in addition. I am looking at the prospect of giving up 2 summer weekends to take classes to reduce my load for next year. Unfortunately, summer classes at my school are only in the weekend format.
My advisor didn't really get it when I said that I didn't know if I could give up 2 weekends of summer riding!
Are you in any kind of informal support group? I get together with a group of other "older" students once a month for dinner. It's a great stress release. Plus, we are going to continue doing this when we get out in the real world and have our own supervision group. But, that's a looong time away.

[malkin]

And when you have your degree, you may look back fondly on grad school.

If they'd give me health insurance, I'd go back in a minute, but I'd never tell my dad I was working on a third master's degree.

[firenze11]

Oh boy do I know what you mean. I'm at the point where I just can't wait to be done. I've been swamped this semester and a couple of weeks ago I had a mini-burnout/nervous breakdown because of all the stuff I have to get done. I put so much pressure on myself to get perfect grades and get everything right the first time that I just started to feel exhausted. Then, I realized I'm going to grad school because a) I needed to find out if I wanted to do a PhD (NO! at least not until grad school becomes nostalgic)and b) I really love history and learning. That, and I just started taking one assignment at a time. I'll get through it eventually.

I really miss my bike and I really miss weekends/nights in front of the tv and I miss TE and I miss my friends and family. But it's worth it, right?

Good luck to all the grad students!

[sundial]

I miss you too, Flye. I know you are on a mission and it won't be long until you're through.