Two As make for a good first semester

Again this goes to show how invested in this Master's degree I am: I finally got around to looking at both my final grades for last semester tonight! I had heard from someone in class in early January that the grade for one class were there, but not for the other class. So I waited a couple days and looked online, thinking that the second grade would surely be posted by then. It wasn't, so I was only able to see my one A. (Yippee, but totally expected.) Then about two weeks ago I was talking to my buddy-pal Kate from Admissions and she said the other grade was finally posted. Kate had said she was slightly disappointed by her A-, which got me wondering back when she told me they were online, if I would get an A or not. However this tidbit didn't arouse my curiousity sufficiently, because I completely forgot about it until this evening when I was standing on the subway platform thinking about how I needed to pay my student fees and would have to log into the TC online system to do so before Friday. It struck me then that I had another grade waiting for me! I did get an A, so all is right with the world.

Semester two starts a week from today for me. Classes officially start at Columbia schools tomorrow, but both my classes are on Tuesday, so I get another week off. That was well planned on my part, nicht wahr? It gives me one final weekend to do whatever the hell I want with every last second of those days without having to feel guilty that I'm not reading from some textbook or writing some reflection paper. I didn't realize how much class dragged me down until I didn't have it anymore. Only two more years people! God persevere me.