Time Management Needed

I must really enjoy writing this blog, because I somehow keep finding time to do it, even though I'm busy as hell.

Grad school is as much work as I thought it was going to be, but in a different way. I imagined cramming every night and doing monstrous problem sets and impossible assignments. Some assignments have been bad, but mainly it's a death by a thousand cuts. There's always some stupid thing that needs doing. Always a seminar to attend, a meeting to schedule, homeworks or tests that need to be graded, research papers that need to be read (tonight's pleasure reading: "Group Velocity in Finite Difference Schemes"), etc. Individually nothing amounts to much, but in total it takes all my time.

It doesn't help that there's essentially no parking on campus, so I have to ride a bus. If I had it to do again I think I would have spent more time looking for a place within walking distance, because waiting for the bus is a big time waster.

Mainly I can't wait to be done with classes. A person my age shouldn't be taking classes anyway.