... and there we go again!

My third quarter and it's about time I get used to being in school again, with everything that entails: classes, homeworks, exams, projects, presentations, deadlines, lagging behind on reading, frustrations about not getting full score for some silly homework and about a teacher waisting your time by coming to class without knowing how to pull out the proof on Chernoff Bounds. And what if they don't like me and all that ...

But I survived two quarters already, and somehow I got straight A's each time, so maybe things are sort of OK and maybe I should just stop being always so anxious and start enjoying it instead. And maybe I should stop thinking that I somehow every day need to proof that I deserve to be in grad school with all these other terrifically smart students.

It's all good sofar, I have had great classes, very competent, very friendly teachers, and gee ... I've learned so much.

I actually believe (for the moment) that this quarter might be relatively relaxed compared to the last two. I have a different mix of classes now. Have one class which focus is a single research project, another one that is an advanced class on algorithms and covers some pretty tough material but presents itself otherwise to be fairly mellow, an a third class on probability and statistics with a pretty regular workload of two homeworks a week and a project every other week.

And I give myself time to go to the gym three times a week without stressing out about it and sometimes more. And C really likes that ... !