Back to School

I'm a week in to orientation at my new school and this ENTIRE weekend was dedicated to my first class as a graduate student of University of Pennsylvania. Friday was a 13 hour day, going to work, leaving at 4, starting class at 5 and left class at 9. Class hours on Saturday and Sunday were from 8-6...an entire week without a weekend. Yea, it was long, (and now I'm tired and I can't believe i have to be up at 6 tomorrow for work again), but I have never been so intellectually stimulated in my life. The course was designed to bridge us between our experiences in college and at institute and the experiences we are about to have as new teachers in urban low-income communities. We covered issues from inclusion, multiculturalism in the classroom, to microagression and teaching philosophy. It was like sitting in a room full of like-minded people, and not a moment went by where my thoughts and ideas were not being challenged.

I think being a grad student isn't going to be so bad (:

Though I already feel too old for homework!