time warp

lately i've been taking classes for my biotech track. these are not offered by the bschool so i need to take them in other departments. this means they are normally not mini classes but semester long classes. also it means that i have to take classes with undergrads. whooosh time warp. i remember the times when i was an undergrad. classes seemed so long and i fell asleep much more than i do now. haha... it's different in grad school. i actually know i'll be able to use the skills i'm learning so i'm actually interested in learning. not that i wasn't interested in learning before, but it was different. looking around, you can see the boredom in everyone's faces. many are there because the class is a requirement they need to fill, not because they are actually interested in the topic. also, the classes go much slower than bschool classes. in bschool they cram all our learning in 7 weeks - 2 to 3 hour long classes. at ucla it was a quarter system so classes were 10 weeks long. in the undergrad classes i'm taking right now, the classes are a whole semester long. my gawd!!! they spent one whole day on just the syllabus. it's like the prof is trying to make small talk just to make sure to have enough material to drag out for the whole semester. it's the strangest thing to have gone to 2 classes already, and it was still nothing but syllabus and review. in tepper, syllabus is 15 min and then we launch right into the class. projects and homework are due immediately.

another adjustment. these little boys have got to stop hitting on me. you know i was invited to some random party by some guy that i just randomly asked for directions? (being in bschool, you have all your classes in one building so you have no idea about the rest of the campus) he asked for my last name and i wondered why. today i get this random evite for an invite only party. it's called SO.Phisticated. hahahaha. not to knock on undergrads, last years roomies were awesome. but getting hit on by little boys is too much.