Grad School Day 1

I wake up promptly at am with questions of "What if I don't fit in?"  "What if the other kids don't like me?"  "What if my teachers think I suck?"  "What if I have no where to sit at lunch or worse someone steals my double order of milk!?!?!"  And just like that, I am back in first grade worrying nonstop about all of the what ifs. 

I had absolutely no idea what to expect.  I had my schedule of classes, each at two and a half hour a piece, and my bike directions for class, and I have never been more terrified about anything than I was for my first day of grad school. 

I biked to my first class, which starts at am, and the second that I hop on my bike I begin sweating because one, the Savannah heat is pretty fierce at 7:30am and two, it's quite possible that I was biking with the speed of Spiderman and superman combined because of my nerves and adrenaline pumping.  Needless to say, by the time I got to school, it had looked like I finished the first portion of the Iron Man Triathlon.  I thought, "No big deal, everyone is going to be sweaty... It's Savannah!" 

I walked into my stage combat class and it's so quiet that I swear the other few students in the class could hear my racing heart beat.  A few more students trickle in, but no one is saying anything.  Me, in my awkwardness, turn to the other students and say, "Hey!!!" (yes, three exclamation points are necessary because I clearly could not contain my excitement or my nerves)... "My name is Elizabeth, I am a grad student!  Whats your names?"  And one by one I was introduced to my fellow peers, my teammates, my companions, my friends.  Within minutes, my worries just began to seep away and I came to realize that my worries and fears derived from my own insecurities.  I realized that the other ten grad students are here for the exact same reason I am:  They want to make something better of themselves, professionally, emotionally, and perhaps physically and as scarry as it might be for me, I know that with this one common factor we are all in this together!  So, if I just jumped off the highest cliff in the world, it's going to be okay because there are 10 others with me, who hopefully have a spare parachute.  Next stop... Auditions....