Yay! Some Semblance of A Life!

SO...

It seems somehow I accidentally did develop a life here at UWO. I"m not really sure how it happened but suddenly I have stuff to do and people to do it with. I think what makes it odd, is that it's not the social life I had been expecting to develop. When I think of social life I think of my social life at Queen's. An example: It's Halloween tomorrow and I keep thinking of last year's crazy 562 Double Keg of Keith Halloween Party in which we had spillover from two parties that got shut down. That was an amazing party with lots of people and costumes and liquor flowing like water from the taps. My social life is not like that here. It is smaller and more conservative and more... um... mature I guess. For one thing with the sheer amount of homework having a social life like before just isn't a possibility anymore. My social life consists of things like going for coffee a lot, watching films, meeting up to discuss music. It's a lot more laid back and suited to the lifestyle of a grad student. I discussed this a lot with Kevin tonight and he agreed that coming to grad school has a sense of isolating you a bit. You come from this place you'd been at for 4 years with lots of friends and a lighter work load. You are suddenly shoved into a new environment with very little time to meet people, no connections and the knowledge that in 2 years you'll be gone. It makes for a feeling of being isolated, and your social life becomes a way to break that isolation through small more mature activity.

That being said, there are opportunities to party and drink they are just less frequent and more risky as the workload never stops. That being said, I like what I'm doing, and the parts I don't like... well they'll be over in a year and a half or less... I find it odd that I'm almost 1/4 done my degree.

Grad students/and those who know Grads take notice of this hilarious comic Ian pointed out to me:

www.toothpastefordinner.com/093004/the-can-factory.gif

Cheers!