when does everyone start????

[golonghorns]

let's list our first day and wish each other good luck!

[jlee306]

I start Sept 1. My last year of undergrad...YAY!

[UnlikelyGrad]

August 24--Monday. *gulp*

[timuralp]

I start Sept 1. My last year of undergrad...YAY!

Err, and this makes you "Officially Grad" how?

[aginath]

Started last Monday

[applecat]

I actually started June 1. My summer was spent in the lab (nearly 60 hours a week!). That was definitely a change for me at the beginning but I've adjusted. Now that I'm excited everyday to be working up a reaction, purifying an enzyme, or simply doing some paper research, its time to start school! Being a TA as well as taking classes will definitely make it tougher to get into lab! I'm nervous but excited to see how it all shakes out. I suppose I need to just find a good routine (of which I hope I slide into fairly quickly).

Since I have done everything but answer the question, I begin Monday, the 24th as well.

[michigan girl]

I start classes after Labor Day (Sept 8th).

[purplepepper]

Sept. 17th. Still 3 glorious weeks of drinking beer in my pajamas (in the afternoon of course).

Although, I could probably do that after school starts too....

[kdilks]

Classes don't start until after Labor Day, but there's one week of orientation and one week of prelims before that.

[jasper.milvain]

Classes start September 2nd (apparently they don't wait for Labour Day) and my first will be a seminar in my field first thing in the morning on the 3rd!

[kahlan_amnell]

August 24--Monday. *gulp*

Me too.

[was1984]

I start Monday too...well Tuesday because all my classes are Tuesday and Thursday. Thats something I would have dreamed of in undergrad but I'm not so sure I like it now.

[wantaphd]

Classes start August 24th here as well. I don't have class until Tuesday, though.

[cardnav]

I start classes after Labor Day (Sept 8th).

Same here, but I have orientation the week before.

[belowthree]

I had to look it up. Apparently classes start Sept 24th, but I will be living on campus starting on the 6th and will probably start meeting with my advisor starting on the 8th. So I imagine I'll start showing up into the lab periodically around then, though I plan to wring a bit more vacation out of summer and take some last trips around to different places before classes start.

I guess officially the quarter starts the 19th and I think I start getting paid then, so that's as close to a start date as anything...

[dherres]

Err, and this makes you "Officially Grad" how?

+1

I have about a week to go.... classes start August 31. But there's orientation/training for my TA-ship on Wednesday, then a department-wide meeting on Friday.... I'll probably be regretting these words in a month, but it'll be nice having a schedule and responsibilities again, instead of just putzing around!

[kdilks]

Same here, but I have orientation the week before.

You going to the general graduate student orientation this week? I would be, if it weren't for the fact the times are the exact same as my department orientation.

[cardnav]

You going to the general graduate student orientation this week? I would be, if it weren't for the fact the times are the exact same as my department orientation.

No, just my departmental -- week after. I was told specifically by my department that it's useless for my program. I don't need to sit through a 2 day lecture on how not to plagiarize.

[kahlan_amnell]

No, just my departmental -- week after. I was told specifically by my department that it's useless for my program. I don't need to sit through a 2 day lecture on how not to plagiarize.

Yep, the general orientation I went to here was pretty useless. I think that most orientations cater to the lowest possible knowledge level, making it boring to most people.

Anyway, I start classes tomorrow!

[kdilks]

No, just my departmental -- week after. I was told specifically by my department that it's useless for my program. I don't need to sit through a 2 day lecture on how not to plagiarize.

If I could, I'd be going mainly to learn about the health plan, ask some questions about rec sports, and maybe meet some new people. I don't see what that has to do with a specific program or plagiarism. You can just skip the worthless parts.

[jlee306]

Err, and this makes you "Officially Grad" how?

+1

I have about a week to go.... classes start August 31. But there's orientation/training for my TA-ship on Wednesday, then a department-wide meeting on Friday.... I'll probably be regretting these words in a month, but it'll be nice having a schedule and responsibilities again, instead of just putzing around!

Geez! Excuse me...I must of misunderstood when the question stated "everyone." And I thought this was the friendliest forum I had found so far, but I guess not. Please don't start being like all the other grad school forums and think you are better than everyone just because you are a graduate student. If it helps any, my first day as an "Officialy Grad" is Sept. 7, 2010. I'll be more careful where I post on here from now on.

[jasper.milvain]

Please don't start being like all the other grad school forums and think you are better than everyone just because you are a graduate student.

Not so much 'better than everyone' as 'actually able to comment on topics that are aimed directly at admitted grad students'. You are in the "Officially Grads" sub-forum, after all.

My survival plan for boring orientations is to stay for the essential stuff and free food, then find other people who are also bored and skip the rest to go drink beer.

[kahlan_amnell]

Not so much 'better than everyone' as 'actually able to comment on topics that are aimed directly at admitted grad students'. You are in the "Officially Grads" sub-forum, after all.

My survival plan for boring orientations is to stay for the essential stuff and free food, then find other people who are also bored and skip the rest to go drink beer.

Yep, I agree. This is the only sub-forum here for people who are currently grad students. Undergrads feel free to post in the other sub-forums, but you might want to wait until you are a grad student to post in this one.

jasper.milvain, that sounds like a good survival plan. I left during some of the boring parts of mine to go get other things done, like get my advisor's signatures on a form I needed to turn in. Your plan sounds much more fun.

[Sgt. Pepper]

If I could, I'd be going mainly to learn about the health plan, ask some questions about rec sports, and maybe meet some new people. I don't see what that has to do with a specific program or plagiarism. You can just skip the worthless parts.

I went... from what i could tell, it was mostly international students that showed up, since quite a few of the brochures at the library table were printed in Chinese... My department starts orientation Monday and then class on the 8th 'cause in Minnesota, you have to wait for the State Fair to end to start class.

[cardnav]

I went... from what i could tell, it was mostly international students that showed up, since quite a few of the brochures at the library table were printed in Chinese... My department starts orientation Monday and then class on the 8th 'cause in Minnesota, you have to wait for the State Fair to end to start class.

I'm going to the Fair because I was told by the locals that it is a religious experience.