Refreshed, Recharged and Ready to Roll!

Back to Campus! :)

Hello, everyone! Thank you all very much for following our blogs last semester! We are all back for another brand new semester, and I am extremely excited to see how things are unveiling for me as time goes by.

My winter break was very relaxing! My husband and I were in Philly most of the time except for spending five days in Maryland visiting our close friends. I was able to catch up with sleep and some movies, and am feeling all refreshed and ready to roll!

Photo taken by one of my cohort - Nadila

Having gone through a super academically rigorous semester last year, I am more confident about taking another five classes this semester while continuing with my awesome assistantship, starting job search, and taking advantage of all the amazing resources Penn has to offer. (I was just volunteering with two of my cohort members this afternoon at the Penn GSE Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management Leadership Conference where renown scholars and Higher Ed. Icons like Dr. George Kuh and Dr. Vasti Torres were present! Well, I got to meet Dr. Torres very briefly but have yet to meet Dr. Kuh! Hopefully, I will meet him tomorrow during the time when I am volunteering! Fingers crossed!! Two days ago at Penn, many of my cohort members went to see John Legend and listened to him speak at the 12th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture.)

Speaking of classes, I thought I had made up my mind on what to take this semester, but I just learned about another class that I am very interested in. There are just so many cool classes that we can take within Higher Ed. division or within GSE or even outside of GSE, so it can be difficult to pick only five to take. I will share what classes I am actually taking this semester once I make up my mind.

On another note, congratulations to those of you who have been accepted! Please feel free to join the 2013-2014 Accepted Students Facebook Group. We are also planning a lot of exciting events for you to help you learn more about what it is like to be a student here at GSE.

To those of you who are one button away from completing your application, or still working on your application, or considering to apply to GSE, all the best to you!! I still remember how I was very nervous and reluctant to click SUBMIT even though I had read through everything on my application form a million times, and how I was so relieved after letting things go out of my hand, knowing that at least I have done my part to the best of my ability.

Please feel free to leave a comment here or email us if you have any specific question. I will try to blog more this semester now that I have a much better sense of how to manage my time well in order to do a lot more before I graduate. :) Stay tuned~~~