Monday, Monday (ba-da-da-da-da-da).

And now, the end of the thing's I've learned. I'm feeling like this is going to be a recurring them as I go on.

6) Copy machines are magic now.

I've worked in a place where the technology was a good decade behind the rest of the world. And I learned to fear and dread the copy machine...until now.

Now I have access to a real, modern photocopier. You put paper in it, it prints out as many collated, double-sided and perfectly stapled copies as you want. And it takes less than a minute. I'm pretty sure it would do all my homework, and grade my students' papers for me, if I only I knew what button to press. It's just that A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!

7) Making your own food is costly, time-consuming and pretty freaking fun:

I touch the future...and all that jazz.

This week I'll be continuing from last week's post about what I've learned in my first week here at K-State.

4. The clothes make the man

This is one I sort of had figured out before, but now that I'm putting it into practice, I'm realizing just how crucial it is to create a professional persona.

Those of you who have met me in person know that I am a casual and crass person. I swear like a sailor, I'm messy, I procrastinate an extraordinary amount, and I still have a lot of growing up to do. In my head, I'm Alli, and I have no ambition, and no talents. In many ways I feel completely unqualified to teach.

One week down...fourteen more to go!

As I near the end of my first week as both a graduate student and a new teaching assistant, I've realized a few things:

1) I have always been a big fish in a little pond

This one is pretty self-explanatory. In essence, I began life as a brainy, book-loving, nerdy kid, and while I would never identify myself as a prodigy child, or the head of the class, I won't deny that my smarts and abilities put me well above average.