I’ve been stuck on an icebreaker question asked at one of the orientation events earlier this week: “what are your goals here?”.

I feel that I should be going into this with a better plan than I am right now. I don’t think it’s possible to make this trip a waste, but I after walking around the Siebel Center for the first time, I really feel like I should be focusing completely on academics while I’m here, filling up my schedule with 500-levels and learning everything I can from these experts.

That’s not to say that I don’t want to travel around, meet new people or take cross faculty courses — I really do — but I’m just having trouble figuring out what ‘make the most of this year’ really means.

I guess it’s only with a time limit on my stay that I really start thinking about how I should optimize my life. Sadly, I know I’m not even going to get close this time, let alone in the long run.

My next post will be better.