Orienting

I’m just about finished with orientation week at Northwestern. I just have the library orientation on Monday, then classes start Tuesday. I figured orientation week would be light, but I was very busy, mostly with organizing and preparing for the upcoming quarter, but I also started working on a conference paper. Now my calendar is looking pretty full, and my next actions list has really grown. I’ve never been on a quarter system before, so that will take some adjustment, but I’m really happy to be busy and challenged and finally getting started.

This quarter I’ll be working on a statistics, a media studies theory and history, professionalization and introduction to the faculty’s research, and information seeking research, so hopefully I’ll be able to write a bit about that in the coming weeks.