January 21, 2009
President Obama and I have something in common: we both started new jobs yesterday. Of course, his job is much cooler (and much, much more difficult) than mine, and technically his job is new to him and I've been at my job for most of my life. But still, I get to say I started school the same day he became president, which makes me giddy (his being president, that is).
School makes me not quite giddy, unless you count the butterflies in my tummy. Is it weird to say I'm more nervous now than when I started grad school? Because I think I am. Other than the three science classes I had to take to satisfy core requirements as an undergrad the first time, I haven't had a science class since high school. And now I have two, and they're hard ones! And they have labs! But they should be a lot of fun, too, and the professors seem both nice and engaging, which is an enormous plus.
The only down side to starting a completely different program, is probably the down side Obama is facing: it's going to be a lot of work. And here I am, finally comfortable with having "nothing" to do, too.
