not so new beginnings?

I'm not sure I'm completely convinced that our calendars are the best ways to mark the passage of time. January 1 seems to be a pretty arbitrary date, and there's no real reason why it should mark a "new" year, or a new beginning.

And anyway, when you're stuck in the American academic calendar, seasons and cycles are really quite different from the rest of the sane world . . .

But I suppose it prompts us to stop for a moment and take stock of what we're doing and what we hope to do. I'm still stuck in grad school, so it always seems like all I want is to move onward with the dissertation . . . onward to the point of completion. :)

There has to be life beyond grad school, there simply has to be!