Feel free to scroll on past, I’m just trying to sort something out in my brain while I fill the time between the first class I taught tonight and the next one which doesn’t start until 1:30am.

The semester for the class I’m taking (completely different from the ones I’m teaching) has just started and I feel like an idiot. I struggled writing my first 500 discussion post and I feel kind of dumb as I’m reading some of the other posts. People commented on mine but it seemed mostly to politely disagree, but maybe I’m just reading too much into their comments.

I admit I wrote mine more from a real world perspective and many of theirs seemed more “let me just restate the research articles I read.” I get that this is an academic endeavor but I’m already worried that no one will want to co-author the required research paper with me. I’m not sure what I want to research but it looks like a bunch of people are jumping on this one topic which it turns out the professor is currently finishing up a book on. Blegh. I don’t want to jump on that just cause it’s a pet topic of his, but I also don’t want to completely loop myself out. 

I know I’m being overly critical. I worried a lot at the beginning of last semester and everything turned out great. Guess it’s hard being the newer grad kid on the block.