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Devac  ·  1630 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 9, 2019

Seems like I'm making new friends and spend a lot of fun time with other freshmen. Moving from institute to a bar can be surprisingly seamless, though we did build sort of a nerd corner for ourselves. There's also an air of cooperation that's very new to me, IRL at least. It's different from my general life experience, and I couldn't be happier about it.

Being a TA takes much more prep time than I expected, but I'm starting to develop a weekly routine that should be close to optimal. The commute is already solved, TA prep will likely plateau at about 2 hours per course per week, homework is nothing new (even though it's noticeably harder in general), and I'm moving through all the papers for my research assignment in a relatively comfortable pace. The fact I already have more free time than while I was at uni is weird as hell, though much appreciated.

In one word: progress.