So it's been a while...

Yeah, it's been a while since my last post. Weird seeing as I have OhSoMuch free time! (I couldn't even type that without chuckling a bit).

The last post I made was right at the beginning of winter break. During the break I spent my time looking for (more) conferences to submit my work to. I'm happy to report that all that work of looking up conferences and building the conference page into my blog actually paid off! I submitted proposals to two conferences and the Graduate Research Fair here at EMU and I got accepted to one conference and the grad fair! Woot!

Break seems like so long ago and I really don't know what I did with the rest of my time. Did you ever feel like there is just so much going on that what happened last week seems like a month ago? Well break was 2 months ago so, you can imagine how long ago it feels like.

Since getting back I've started my second semester as a grad student. I'm in all psychology classes this semester after a major disappointing cancellation of  what looked like a truly awesome WGST class that my prof from Feminist Thought was teaching. So I'm in Social Pysch and Psych Stats 2. Stats 2 has been the bane of my existence this semester. If I thought Fem Thought was difficult last semester (and it definitely was challenging!) then stats is...well, hell. I haven't taken a stats class in a few years and this is my first grad level stats class. I really should have thought twice about it upon seeing the "2", realizing that I should probably take "1" before skipping ahead. Yeah that would have been a better plan.

Social Psych, however, makes everything seem OK again. The prof is just awesome and we connected pretty much from the beginning. Being at a much bigger university than my undergrad, I was really missing that community feel that I used to have. I feel like I've regained some of that with this professor. When we were all going through the motions of introducing ourselves the first week and talking about research interests and such, she said that my research sounded interesting and that we should set up a meeting sometime to talk about it. So we did. We've been meeting (kind of) regularly since then and it looks like if everything goes as planned she'll be my thesis advisor, which is kind of (REALLY!!!) exciting.

Well I guess that's all for now. I'm going to make a real effort to post more...it'll serve as my break from the insanity :)