Nice Shirt, Nice Pants and an Office; What Happened to Me?

I have just finished my first week as a graduate student; and I am still alive.

In addition, I have just finished my first week as a graduate assistant; yes, I am now a teacher.

My life is changing and it is for the better. However, had you asked me 5 years ago if I would be waking up at 6am to put on some nice clothes, leave the house by 6:45 so that I make to my 8am Architectural Design class only to help teach, I would have said, "No."

But, I must say I do enjoy it. I have an office on the forth floor of Texas State's new R.F. Mitte Technology building overlooking all of campus and eastern San Marcos. I am even on salary! All of which, is new to me.

Aside from the graduate assistant ship, graduate classes pose a new challenge in life, too. This semester I am enrolled in the following:

Data Acquisition and Analysis
Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology
Environmental Ethics

All three of the courses I find very intriguing (even the data analysis class, for some reason). The semiconductor class has to be the coolest, though, only because I will fabricate my own processor chip by the end of the semester. Not to say that Env Ethics and Data Analysis won't be fun, because they will, but getting to design and build my own processor sounds so much more fascinating!

As for now, I must enjoy my weekend.