The realization that I'll be starting graduate school in less than six weeks hit me hard this week. It could be the fact that I met with some of my professors for my grad assistantship assignment, and was already assigned a six page lit review/essay to be completed before school starts, or maybe it was the emails I received today from each professor giving me multiple chapters to read for each class, with quizzes to be awaiting me on the first day of class. Or maybe the realization hit me the hardest when I looked up the prices for the 11 textbooks and manuals I have to buy. I swear it's a crime to charge that much.

As crazy as it sounds, I live for the excitement that a new semester brings. Even though I'm already feeling the pressure of what awaits... I get my motivation from knowing I'll have a challenge ahead. My philosophy has always been that nothing worth having should be easy to get. I've worked extremely hard just to get this far, and I haven't even begun. Grad school is just the next step, and the real learning experience will begin when I'm an OT with patients of my own.

Oh, and I'm also psyched about buying school supplies. There's something about blank notebooks and new high-lighters that gives me the sense of a fresh start. ; ) ...yeah, I'm strange like that.