Exploring Inside the Periphery

 If you aren't willing to hear the answer,  don't ask.  If you don't want to get a possibly negative response,  don't ask.  Seemingly innocuous questions aren't always so innocuous.   Today I was asked a simple question that most people ask of college students.  I was honest.   And blunt.  It hit a sore spot for me, touching on the most painful part of my life in Provo. And that was it.  They tiene to someone else and asked the same question.  And under the circumstances what could he do but give a positive answer?  Nothing. 

It's incredible.  By Tuesday I will be halfway through my first semester of graduate school.  And graduate school is just a crazy as everyone says.  To this point,  I've been to six seminars,  watched hours and hours of prerecorded video,  attended many many zoom classes and group meetings,  written one and a half papers,  created a basic (plus a little) website, completed several steps in my first design project,  read several journal articles as part of a research group,  created quizzes,  question banks reviewed syllabi, cheated (with permission) on proctor and Turning, been elected to the student organization board for my department,  and headed a lot more assignments than I would have ever imagined before deciding on graduate school.  Everything is fun to learn this semester! I am so grateful for that because the avalanche that hit about two weeks ago would be miserable otherwise. I can literally put in 10-13 hours of...