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Thursday, August 25, 2005
Down to Business
I have been in Tampa now for almost a full week and today was by far the hardest for a number of reasons. This morning I surrendered my North Carolina driver's license and officially became a Florida citizen (hard part #1). I also registered to vote. At this point it really started to sink in that I was really here. After going to the beach one last time with my girlfriend, I took her to the airport and saw her off to North Carolina (hard part #2). Now I'm in a city of over 300,000 people and I don't know anyone on a personal basis yet (hard part #3). That in itself is a bit daunting and coupled with the fact that one of my best friends is ten hours away will make for a rough few days.
Tomorrow will be my first full day of work for my assistantship. I have quite a bit to do in the biological anthropology lab and helping my GA advisor get ready for his Human Variation course. Not to mention my own courses: the three regular grad sections along with an additional undergraduate linguistics requirement that I need to make up. I already have two reading assignments before classes start next week. Here goes nothing...
Posted by Will at August 25, 2005 08:17 PM in Graduate School