I’ve just realized
that 3 out of my last 4 posts have consisted of some sort of media and complaining about biostatistics. So, here’s a more balanced view of my grad school experience: I love it. I am learning a lot, and most of my classes are really great. My epidemiology class involves a really bad professor who seems incapable of explaining things in more than one way, and gets really flustered when we ask questions. So, that kind of sucks.
But I really like the other women in my program. Yes, it is all women in my year in Maternal and Child Health. I’m taking Women’s Health, which is a really demanding class, but I love what we’re learning, and the professor is great. And I had a class all day yesterday, and all next Saturday about comprehensive sex ed in the US, which was absolutely fantastic. We discussed a ton of controversies, looked at the data of what’s working and what’s failing, and compared our programs and attitudes with those in Europe. (Spoiler: our head-in-the-sand attitude about teenage sexuality is failing).
I’m still having trouble with my “free time” not being really free, and needing to devote time to studying. But I think I’ll be able to get a handle on it. Going back to school was definitely a good move!
