registration

Posted 06:39 PM, September 14, 2006, by antilles

I've been spending a few days as a couch potato. Robin is waiting to hear from a potential employer, and I'm just trying to relax before the 5-6 year grind starts. It's been very nice, but I'm starting to itch for something to do more than watch tv and play World of Warcraft.

Tomorrow I'm going to purchase a bike, go out to lunch with an old college friend (who coincidentally will be starting her master's in biosciences this fall, and will be taking an immuno class with me), and maybe do some clothes shopping.

More importantly, I finally got up off my ass (well, alt tabbed out of World of Warcraft), did some research on classes, and registered.

a few thoughts:

a) The whole thing was online. You'd think I'd have registered online before.... but I haven't. In college, I had to fill out a form and leave it for my advisor to sign off on before handing it in at the registrars. And while doing my master's, I did fill out something online, I think, but then I had to take a printout to the gym and get it stamped or something like that... along with thousands of other students.

you'd think that since my previous schools were Caltech and MIT, they'd have digitized the whole process by now. Go figure.

b) I registered for an extra class, so on top of the basic immunology course, genetics, seminar, and research, I'll be checking out an informatics class. Upon submitting my selection, I got notified that I wasn't able to add anymore classes or else I'd have to pay more tuition. Kinda makes me wonder, given my previous entry worrying about getting back into the groove of classes, whether I'm getting in over my head. Oh well, there's nothing to do but try it.

c) I rather like my schedule. I have 1 class on mon/wed/fri, and 2 classes and seminar tues/thurs. Leaves me nice big chunks of time 3 days a week to play around in lab.

d) NOW I feel accomplished. I've talked to a prof about rotating with him, and have worked out my classes. Somehow, that was more satisfying than unpacking our apartment. Definitely more satisfying than clearing Molten Core.

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