COPYING SPECKBLOG ON AN EMAIL SENT TO MAYHEM TO FOLLOW UP ON HER NOTE:

Hey!

I’m alive, but just barely. I’m currently taking a 10 minute break from studying. I’m making note cards as fast as I can because we have an Anatomy midterm on Monday. I just finished the Artic and Phono disorder midterm yesterday and I don’t know how I did. So far I’ve gotten three out of three Bs for all my tests and quizzes, but I’m working as hard as I possibly can for those Bs. I have never in my life worked harder for Bs.  I’m so grateful when teachers curve. I am running myself into the ground and I have ZERO wiggle room to ever stop.

Believe it or not, Neurology is my best class, the one I’m enjoying most! It turns out my undergrad was just really, really hard and prepared me well. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of my speech science course which is my most focused point of concern about failure.

I have hundreds of pages of reading every night, many papers to write and labs to do, and tests almost every week. I’m so behind on reading I’m not sure if I will ever catch up and I vascilate wildly from feeling elated and glorious that I’m in this amazing place doing this amazing thing, and utterly dejected and certain that I will never, ever get through the program and will flunk out with a big, wet flop.

The brightest side of grad school are my class members who, to a person, are stellar human beings. The other day all 24 of us got punchy and started making Neuron Threshold jokes and agreed that we were probably the geekiest people anywhere, ever. I like every. single. person in my class. And, as a reader of Speckblog, I think you know what the chances of that ever were.

I’m sorry I haven’t been writing. I also haven’t been sleeping or doing much other than studying, parenting (badly) and cleaning (when desperate).

Love,

KP

PS - MO HAD HER BABY!!!  He is Cousin E and is just gloriously perfect and snuggly.  I have held him, thusly.