First steps as a grad student

It's kind of weird, having to seriously worry about my GPA instead of just passing. About sitting beside a guy that was my TA two terms ago in a workshop. Emailing profs for advice for something non-academic. Having career-advice chats with profs. Having small-talk with profs (wow. haha) Walking into segments of the ECE office that I've never been to (got my keys and payroll). Having a discussion about using PubMed vs Google Scholar (peer-review journal archives ... if never heard, no worries. Journal reading gets tedious rather quickly. no one reads journal for fun -_-). It's all a bit surreal. And I'm technically not a grad student yet. Haha.

Don't take the easy courses. That's what undergrads do. In grad school, you really get some idea of how much more there is to know. If you don't know something, go take a course. Don't avoid it. You're not here just to get by anymore. You're here to learn how to learn.

Someone walked up to me earlier when I was standing just outside of DC library with a bunch of CCF people. "Do you know where the Davis Centre is...?" Um. you're in it, ma'am. Oh froshes. I'm officially old.