So grad school is going...

Rather than sign everyone I know up to my emails, I have decided to update this little blog once in a while, both as a professional journal and as a way to keep me from blowing a gasket and having my grey matter end up on my professors' walls.

That being said, I am sure you could guess from having read the title that I'm beginning grad school. I finished my first semester of two physics courses and one education courses with only minor stress aneurisms. I am in the Masters of Science in Teaching program with a Physics concentration at Boston College. This semester appears to be equally challenging, but with only one physics course and two education courses; the physics course being Classical Electrodynamics.

As with all college students, grad students have this problem with money. We don’t tend to have it. Struggling with financial ruin is one facet of education that I could do without. I suppose it is just as well, as I can’t even begin to fathom what I would do with money had I some to discuss. Well, actually, I suppose the first thing would be to pay off loans, and then help the family get settled. But that is neither here, nor there. My point is that in order to sustain life as I know it, I continue to work. I am a substitute teacher in the town that I grew up in. Sounds quaint, but some of the kids there are ridiculous. From just these few hours a day with some of these kids, I get the feeling that I should just walk away from the entire thought of teaching (being in graduate school for teaching being a major reason I don’t follow this whim, after all it is what I always wanted to do…aside from being a mailman).

I sometimes think about looking for a new job, but I don’t think I could handle two jobs at once, and I enjoy teaching, aside from attitude I get from kids younger than what I’d be teaching anyway. Plus, I see some friends of mine teaching and enjoying it, and I know that I can do it too. I just have to get through some crap first that they don’t need. Once this is over, I’m looking forward to finding a pretty good paying job and paying off some loans. I’m looking into some programs to pay off loans after grad school with my girl. Maybe in Hawaii, who knows?

That’s enough out of me for now, I hope all is well with you all and I hope you stop by once in a while to check on my dementia and seeing how it is progressing.