Happy is what happens

when all your dreams come true…right?  I think lately I’ve been making myself more unhappy than I actually am, and I need to stop.  There’s kind of a collective culture of stress among first years at the moment, and it’s happened all year, but I think I actually have less reason to be stressed out now than I did the first quarter, or even last quarter.  I actually work on my projects a lot each week, and that’s all that I can really expect.  Substantial progress would be nice, but it’s not going to happen all in one week, so there’s no point in stressing out about that.  The competitive stressed-out-ness is starting to bother me, and I’m glad I’m not in the same office as a bunch of other first years.

I may have made my flight reservations too soon =(.  There are two different end-of-class/finals week dates given on the calendar, one for grads and one for undergrads.  I went by the grad one, which is a week earlier, but it seems I might have been mistaken…I might have to arrange to send in a final exam remotely, or else change my flights.  But I hope not, *fingers crossed*.

About meg

I think planets are cool! I'm a new graduate student in Planetary Science at Caltech, and at the moment I'm interested in planetary geophysics of terrestrial planets and moons. I'm originally from Cortlandt Manor, NY, and I did my undergrad at MIT, where I got heavily involved in student theater - a hobby I hope to continue through grad school, time permitting... I also like to read sci-fi/fantasy novels, obsess about English history, and play frisbee.
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