This is not my first blog.

So usually when someone finally starts a blog there are certian motivators in their life. One is procrastination... I don't have actual trends to back this up but I'm betting the start of blogs for students, usually happens around exam time or at the beginning of the year when there is precieved time to do other things. Another motivator I've found is that they feel they have lots of interesting things to say but not very many outlets to talk about what's on their mind. My reason are a little from column A a little from column B. As I said in my previous post I do need practice writing but really there are a lot of topics that have come up recently that I feel I would like to put my two sense out there and say my peice. Also probably going to have some food stuff going on in here. 

Having said that, I don't really want to overload and post them all in the same day, because then I would probably burn out and not want to blog anymore. So I'm saving some of my post ideas and hopefully I'll get around to them. 

So far, only a week in, grad school has been a very confusing experience for me. The course I've been planning on taking have switched SO many times that its hard to explain. I've gone back and forth between essay and thesis options (in my head) at least 3 times. Right now I'm pretty sure I'm doing a thesis but it depends on if I can get into this one course. 

Theres also a lot of implicit expectations... things we should already know, like what a TA does but also important things like, what we are researching, what we do on days when we don't have any classes, that we need to talk to 3 people before we can get on our computer. Annoyingly theres also a lot of newsgroups and email subscriptions. I've spent most of a week setting things up on my PC. I must say I really enjoy having chrome, but I'm no so keen on the constant reminder of where I've been. I wish I could customize the home page a little more... or at least delete the pages that I don't need. I'm hoping it will be better eventually.

What I'm Reading now: 

• User Involved Preference Elicitation [pdf]
  
• Designing With Blends [Amazon]
• Exploring Requirements - Quality Before Design [Amazon]