Grad School: The PhD Edition - Year 1
I'm back y'all. After such a long hiatus, I have pondered long and hard about what to talk about. So much has happened since my last post . I moved across the country (again), loc'd my hair, started the #JourneytoDrJ as a PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, fell in love. SO MUCH! I decided to tell you about the first year of my #JourneytoDrJ. Me, joyful, at the beginning of fall semester totally unaware of what chaos would ensue The journey began in August. I was bright-eyed and bushy tailed on the first day of classes and it might've lasted throughout the first week. After I realized that I didn't know anything, I wondered what the hell I signed myself up for. It was not lost on me that I was the only Black woman in my cohort and that my journey would look very different from that of my cohort members. For a while, I pushed that notion aside and hyped myself up because ya girl has a WHOLE master's degree in applied math. But that wasn't enou...