{"id":511,"date":"2014-09-15T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/?p=511"},"modified":"2014-11-16T10:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T15:30:49","slug":"only-in-grad-school-do-you-have-class-on-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/09\/15\/only-in-grad-school-do-you-have-class-on-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Only in grad school do you have class on the weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong><\/a>By Keiko Talley<\/strong><\/a>
\n MS Journalism ’16<\/em><\/a>
\nBU College of Communication<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

My first week of grad school is officially done. I am the third one in my family to even go to grad school, so my mother was bombarding me with texts saying how happy she was and proud of me; she has always been my biggest fan. My best friends from home were all wishing me an amazing first day. It felt like everyone was excited for me, except for myself. I was nervous. I barely knew my way around this huge city, and I was going to have to get back into the mindset of school after being in pure work mode for two years. I didn\u2019t know anyone besides my roommates and few people from a chat group that we created on Facebook (but lets be real how often do you actually meet any of those people and become friends with them). Making friends isn\u2019t my number one priority at BU, but it is something that I know I am going to need to do in order to keep my sanity…and that scares me a lot.<\/p>\n

For my first week, I only had three classes. During my first, the T.A. told us that our professor was tough and made him sound like it was going to be next to impossible to get a good grade. Twenty minutes later, the professor came in and immediately started poking fun at everyone, myself included for my tattoos. However, this helped me start to feel a little better about things because I soon realized that someone who I thought was going to be \u201cso scary\u201d, actually was comical.<\/p>\n

I chose not to go to the first graduate event at the Hyatt (a cocktail meet and greet for students and professors); however, when I picked up my roommate from the event, I quickly regretted it. But while everyone else was recovering the next morning, my roommate included, I went to a new journalism \u201cboot camp\u201d class all day Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

I had already had such anxiety about the class because it was about photojournalism and how to take pictures on a fancy camera, which I knew nothing about. After the professor took attendance I realized that everyone knew each other, which I found odd. It\u2019s a small program, so most of us are in a lot of the same classes, but we hadn\u2019t even had class yet. As I quietly sat at my seat, one of the kids behind me started talking about the Hyatt event and how I wasn\u2019t at there. At this point, I thought I had missed my opportunity to make any friends.<\/p>\n

I was wrong because that changed quickly. As annoying as it was having class all day my first weekend at school, it forced us all to get to know each other and become friends. I never thought I would actually enjoy learning how to focus a camera and set the aperture and shutter speed. But by Sunday, it felt like I was hanging out with my friends just taking silly photos of each other. Meeting the people in my boot camp class, and hanging out with them all weekend long made walking into other classes or even around campus a million times easier.<\/p>\n

I had fully expected the worst when I was entering my first week at BU, not because the school work seemed so daunting, but because I was five hours away from anything and everything I knew. It\u2019s a scary thought to embark upon a new journey where I could potentially fail. But, that ended up being the best part of entering my first week here at BU. You expect for the worst but hope for the best, and that\u2019s just what happened.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the faculty has been nothing but helpful and understanding of a few unfortunate situations; such as, coming to class late because you went to the wrong building, not having the right book for class because you weren\u2019t sure if you actually needed it (FYI: you do in fact need every book that a professor asks you to get prior to class), and even messing up your first assignment because you were completely clueless. The students here at BU are just as nice as the faculty, and if there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned from this week, it\u2019s that we\u2019re all in this together. We all want to make friends and succeed. So don\u2019t forget, even though everyone in your classes is your competition, they are also your support group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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