I have been up at UMass for over a month now, but this is the first time that I have been actively involved in the educational side of my purpose here.  There was an orientation on Tuesday, but the real stuff started just hours ago with my first class at 7PM.

It was good.  I can already tell that I will need to buckle down during this program because just this one class has enough work for three undergrad classes.  On top of that, I have to balance my random day job.  It was interesting because we went back to elementary school with some of the activities, but it was all part of the educational process.