returning to grad school after taking a 5 year break has been rough. it's frustrating seeing how much my writing & research skills have degraded. it takes so much more brain power and time to finish an article and a book, process it, write reflections, participate in discussions. i feel like i shouldn't have come back... or at least that coming back in the spring semester was a mistake, i should have started in the fall and maybe it would have been an easier adjustment/
i'm sitting here struggling with a minimum 5pg reflection paper... i don't know what to do. i have all my notes and a rough outline in front of me but i feel so stuck and i feel like nothing that i write sounds smart. it also isn't clear what exactly he wants from this paper. it's not a research paper so i shouldn't just infodump, i should focus on my takeaways from the readings and connect them to the overall theme. yeah,yeah. how???
so we'll see how this paper turns out.
right now i'm writing whatever down for a first draft with the hope that it will lead me to some clearer thoughts.
lots of anxiety about everything haha. good luck.











