Tomorrow is the first day of my Ph.D. work at Duke; I can't believe it's here already! I'm about as ready as I can be- I bought the supplies I need and the textbooks the store had in stock. Only one class had books at the store, and I've already spent $265 on books. For ONE class. Boooooo, no wonder college students are poor! And my first stipend check won't be coming in until the beginning of October! Looks like there will be a lot of Ramen noodles in my future...
I only have two classes tomorrow, but I think we will probably dive right in. As a grad student, we only have classes for 3 months, since our classes end before the undergrad classes (my last day is November 25) so I've got 12 weeks to learn a LOT of things. Looking over the syllabus I have for one of my classes, we spend about one week per topic, and that's a little intimidating. All of my classes meet twice a week (except the lab and seminar), so that's like 2 classes per topic... and I'm hoping I will be able to keep up! But I keep telling myself that if I could make it through some of the hellish semesters I had at NCSU with 7 or 8 engineering classes, that I can handle 4 grad classes. We'll see how that theory pans out...
Yesterday Keegan and I met his priest, and I really like him; he's an NCSU alum, and when he greeted us and we filled out our info sheets, he told me that his grandparents were Presbyterians. I thought that was a pretty tactful way to make me feel less uncomfortable. He showed us around the church and answered the few questions we had at this point. Then we went to Duke for me to buy the books, bought a couch (yay! somewhere to sit!), AND went to a wedding consultation at Edible Art.
Edible Art is a store we're looking at for our cake, and they were so helpful there! We got to sample 4 types of cakes and several different fillings to help us choose what we might like, and then we described what we'd like the cake to look like, and we were able to get some price estimates. We have another consultation on September 7 with another bakery, then we'll decide which to use, but I know we both found what we were looking for at Edible Art. I'm a lemon person and Keegan's a chocolate person, and they were definitely able to meet those tastes! Mmmmm :-D
I think the next step of the wedding planning will be to meet with some florists and hopefully I can start looking at dresses in early October. Then there's ordering invitations, programs, picking a menu, bridesmaid dresses, finding a photographer, etc. But it'll get there eventually. I have a feeling a lot of this planning will be done over my Christmas break :-)
Well, that's all for now. I'll try to update again relatively soon about how all of my classes are going.
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