Monday, November 21, 2005

Beer with the boys

Aaaaahhhhh!!!

After class tonight, Steamer, Gary and I made our weekly pilgrimage over to the Grad Lounge, where we typically enjoy a beverage and break bread together after our philosophy class.

The two of them tower over me and I’m sure we’re quite the sight trooping across campus together, but who cares? None of us certainly do!

Sometimes others join us and once, I bowed out to focus writing on that paper that was worth 50% of my grade in the other course, but generally, it’s the three of us hanging out after class.

We debrief on the class, toss around some ideas, talk about our papers… We enjoy this “student” time. None of us lead typical “student” lives, so these moments when we can kick back and exchange ideas in a relaxed way are precious.

We are all first-year doctoral students and tonight we realized that we are in the home stretch of this first fall semester. There is a light that we can faintly see at the end of the tunnel and boy, does it look good!

Oh yeah, baby! Almost there...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hang in there, my friend! You'll do just fine.

oldhall said...

It's nice that you can lead as much of a 'typical student life" as you want. Cherry pick the good...

Sarah Elaine said...

OH - Dunno about cherry picking the good... Did you see those postings when I was a big ball of stress? :-) There's gotta be some balance to all that, right?

oldhall said...

Yeah, but you were so much younger then...