It’s my birthday, and it has taken me what feels like a long time to write this blog post. The main reason is that this will push Dad off the front page of my blog. Of course I can do things to change that; pin posts, delete posts, edit the layout… blah blah blah. However, I want to stick to my current style for the time being.

This month I started back at the Graduate College and it has been a great experience. Not without challenges, though. My biggest concern in the first few weeks was my data processing speed. It was so much slower than I predicted. I was given a task to do and I genuinely thought it would take three days. but at the rate I am going it’ll be three weeks.

I knew I’d be rusty. But I did not expect to be beating myself up over my performance. Especially as my progress was not as fast as I hoped it would be. I predicted a 10% increase in speed everyday as I became more familiar with the database. But I am struggling to focus and/or retain information.

One of the better sides of my new job is that I think it’ll get me more acquainted with the different elements of being a research student. So who knows what the future will hold?