I survived my first week of grad school! To be honest, I thought it would be an absolutely frightening experience, but it wasn’t that bad! I graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Psychology, so I haven’t had much technical preparation outside of a few programming courses that I took years ago. I thought becoming an MSIS student would be  quite intimidating. It still is, but I have so much support and great people around me! It’s a very motivating environment.

This semester, I am taking Database Management Systems, Web Technologies and Standards, Introduction to Information Sciences, and Data Structures. All of my instructors seem really nice and supportive. They are also very skilled and knowledgeable in their fields, which makes the classes even more interesting! I probably don’t have as much reading as Angela, but I do have to read quite a few chapters this week to teach myself the ins and outs of different computer programming languages that I have to use, including XHTML and Java (there are more that I haven’t gotten into yet). I’m pretty excited for the semester. I know I have a lot of work ahead of me, but I know it will be worth it 🙂