so far, so good

things are off to a good start. i've had one class and one required but non-credit brownbag thing, and they've been good. the class is the assessment one, and it sounds super interesting, if hard. and i bought a DSM-IV-TR for it, so i felt all official and psychologist-y (if you don't know, it's the diagnostic and statistical manual, version 4, text-revised, and it's the psychologist's bible)! so that was cool. the brownbag is a lunch hour series where faculty come to talk to the clinical first years and tell us about their research and such, and that wasn't that interesting today since it was mostly logistics, but it sounds like it should be good.

more classes tomorrow and thursday, and then there's a hillel grad student social on friday which i'm going to make myself go to, even if i'm a little intimidated. and i'll stay for shabbat services, too. and the ballroom dance club starts next week on monday, and it sounds great! they have lessons on mondays, and semi-structured practice on wednesdays, and social dancing on thursdays. and they go out to salsa things and other dances, and to comps, and it sounds pretty awesome! so yay for things to come.

oh, and tomorrow, i have a meeting with two profs (my advisor and one other person) to talk about the data i will be working with that might result in a paper! weee!!!