Hello New Readers & Grad School Observations

I put my blog link in my Gchat away message and failed to realize that a whole new crowd of people have my Gchat IM and are reading my blog. It's cool but amusing since this whole blog thing started 6 years ago with just Jeff, Jeng, Rich and I reading each others random writings and now... well I have no idea who reads this anymore. It's ok, I don't have anything (much) to hide. :)

I cracked open the first of my school books yesterday and felt my bad undergrad habits quickly rising to the surface. I used to read a paragraph and then go do something else. Come back to my desk and do it again. It was a vicious cycle. I'm determined to break that cycle so I'm forcing myself to never do schoolwork in my apartment. (It's far too distraction-prone.) Speaking of which, I'm about to start my Micro reading shortly after this blog is complete.

I've made two interesting observations about graduate school so far. One somewhat related to the previous paragraph is that unlike undergrad, we are all here on our own accord (and own dollars) and therefore, are a lot more self-motivated. This time, if we ditch class or skip out on schoolwork, we're far more aware of the price we're paying. Literally. It means people are more respectful of your priorities -- if you have work to do instead of going out, you don't get grief about it (yet). I like that.

The second is that since we're all full-fledged adults now, we're more self-aware (haha) and care less about following the herd and being "cool" in front of others. Undergrad was all about finding oneself but by graduate school, we've all found ourselves and are just making ourselves better people. Or something like that. When you compare us against those undergrads on campus, its pretty clear that they still have some social awkwardness to grow out of. I clearly remember those days, but I feel completely different from that girl fresh from CA to NY. Haha. I know some people hated that girl.

Anyway, enough procrastinating. I got Microeconomics to learn. Word.