Terrible Life Choices

Bart: I was so bored, I cut the ponytail off of the guy in front of us. (Holds it to the back his head) Look at me, I'm a grad student. I'm 30 years old and made six hundred dollars last year.

Marge: Bart! Don't make fun of grad students. They just made a terrible life choice.

Well I'm only 23 so maybe it won't apply to me. Thinking about it and this is one of those choices where only the negatives show up first like the tuition bill, and the positives happen 10 to 20 years down the road.

Well I've arrived and have become situated. Met and know a few people already however I've yet to meet my classmates. I'm actually excited to go to class and meet these kids.

Ithaca is very beautiful, as was Minneapolis, however it's quite the contrast. Very buggy and forest-y here. I have a 15 minute walk uphill to campus. So many hills and gorges, I wonder how they'll plow the snow come winter. The campus feels similar to the U of M so that transition is nice.

I'll track my progress throughout the year so y'all can keep up; and I'll leave you with this picture for Steve.

"It's gonna suck biking to class"