September 09, 2005

So far so good...

So I'm now through my first few days of being a graduate student and so far I haven't failed or been asked to leave. Despite the fact that I have no class I'm having quite the lot of work already. I've done a lot of bike riding (London seems to be a pretty bike friendly town), biking to and from campus as well as to the grocery store and mall. As well I've been busy reading and learning and meeting people. So just quickly to skim over what I've done so far:

Tuesday: Had orientation, met a whole bunch of cool people, had lunch at Grad Club, Stood in line-ups and got my student card, bus pass, etc, went to the wine and cheese (that had no wine). Met all my professors and discussed class times.
Wednesday: Had a meeting with Dr. Daniel regarding electronic music composition and was assigned a bunch of readings and listenings. Got distracted and burnt my sweet potato fries :(
Thursday: Had a meeting with Dr. Myska regarding my TA for his electronic music course. Meeting went long and spent 3 hours in the studio chatting and working on stuff. Started to get sort of organized and figure out when and how to do work.

However during these 3 days I've also been assigned various things by all my professors in passing. So I've been doing a lot of re-reading and hunting through scores and stuff. So far, I've liked the lack of structure but that will all change I'm sure when I start having classes on Monday. Monday is likely going to be my most hated day due to:
1) Have 3 classes on Monday, but only 1 on Tuesday and 1 on Wednesday
2) My first class on Monday is at 9:30am... all my other classes start after 1pm

So tomorrow I'll be heading to campus to try to clean up my office and do a bit of score reading in the library before it closes at 5pm ( it's still on summer hours till September 11th for some stupid reasons) and then that night, the Music Grad students are having a big potluck bbq so it'll give me a chance to try to re-learn all the names I've already forgotten of the people I met on Tuesday.

So that's Grad school here in London thus far...

2 comments:

Haley said...

You have an office!?!?!?
That's incredibly exciting :)

Miss you, Miss you
Haley.

javicat said...

a wine and cheese without cheese is one thing, but without wine?!¿¡