Spring Break!
Posted March 3, 2016 by Tara Pealer
Today is the first day in two weeks that I haven’t woken up at or before 7 in the morning. Now, I know this is “normal adult behavior” but as a 22 year old grad student, it’s not something I appreciate or normally do. I’ve been getting up at this sort of ridiculous hour because these two weeks have been absolutely packed with stuff to do. For example, last week’s schedule:
- Monday: Class and work
- Tuesday: Class and work and class
- Wednesday: laundry, cleaning part of the apartment, and then work
- Thursday: Blogging and then spending most of the day at the MFA
- Friday: Learning the usability testing then watching most of Fuller House for a binge watching party
- Saturday: work
- Sunday: work
Usually I have one day of the week where I can stay home and focus on school work, but up until today, which is my first day of spring break (grad school schedules are awesome for scheduling super long breaks), I have been absolutely booked. I have had a lot of fun and learned a lot, though, which is always the hope at the end of a busy week. Spending time learning about usability testing and learning how to conduct a usability test was both fun, interesting, and applicable, which is always very exciting. The lab is outfitted with a testing room, computers with Morae (a usability software which tracks data like time spent on tasks or mouse clicks) and has two amazing assistants who are helpful and knowledgeable. I really enjoyed learning a new skill to help improve my knowledge of the LIS field.
I’m happy to be home though, with my mom’s dog sleeping on my feet and me not having to get out of my pajamas until afternoon–I really missed relaxing.
So here’s to taking a week and a half off of a crazy schedule to enjoy the small things, like spring flowers and sleeping in late.