Today is the first day of the rest of your life

I know it is kind of corny... but it is so true! And today (actually tomorrow) really is the first day of the rest of my life. I am finally attending my last, first day of school EVER. Not many people can actually say that - law students, doctoral students, possibly medical students. Really there are not that many "terminal" degrees out there, but let's face it those of us that are crazy enough to pursue a "terminal" degree may choose to complete MORE THAN ONE! No comments J and A!

Anyway, I am very excited. I have completed all of my reading (and have read ahead a little bit). This evening, I punched holes in all of the hand outs from orientation and articles that I printed out from Blackboard (our online learning platform). The ONE 1.5" binder that I purchased is almost full AND I have not had a single class yet. Needless to say, I may have underestimated the number of trees that may fall prey to my pursuit of a doctorate.

Have I picked out the first day of school outfit - NO. However, I am planning on wearing comfy clothes. It will be a 16 hour day folks! Let's be real!

I even know my first homework assignment - to write a one page journal article on theinsights gained from my leadership/ethics class (due every week, so fairly easy to assume we have homework on this one). I guess Thursday night will be my first real study night. Up until now, I have just done a couple pages here and there and just plodded along on my reading and now I will have to actually produce.

I am not a fast reader, and this is a concern for me. My parents, who just left after a six day visit - we had a blast other than we all had a cold - recommending reading every third word. My very intelligent roommate said that she does that as well. She said that she has even read books two and three times not even realizing that she had read them before... Must not be reading the same "third" word every time... Not sure how I will improve my reading speed, but hopefully it will come...

Wish me luck as I venture into the great beyond. Gosh, it is kind of fun thinking of this as an adventure and not just school with homework and papers and stuff...