Welcome to Feathers My Hair, a teen mom deep dive podcast.

I'm your host, Liz Bentley.

Hi everyone. How are you? Are we good?

First of all, I want to say thank you to everybody who was so nice last week after I talked about how nervous

I was for starting grad school. And I just want to say to everyone, my first week went really,

really well. I was able to get all of my required reading done for a week, which definitely

like ease my anxiety a little bit. I was very nervous about the reading

aspect of it, because I haven't had to commit time like that to anything almost ever in my life.

So once I was able to get that all done with, like, like, by the end of, my classes are Tuesday and

Wednesday, Tuesday night and Wednesday night.

And I think I was done all my required reading by Sunday night or Monday like during the day.

So I was able to get it all done in a reasonable time, which definitely helped.

I was like, okay, I can do this.

And then I was of course, just so nervous about the Zoom

aspect and I just wasn't sure what to expect. And all the classes on Zoom went really well.

I have a class Tuesday night and then two classes on Wednesday. But the nice thing is my second

class on Wednesday, the professor absolutely is not interested in being on Zoom from 7 to 10 and is only

going to have an hour and a half Zoom sessions. So that's really nice. That's really, really nice.

The other nice thing is when my class ends, you know, I wish it was going to be on campus because

it is missing like a big of social element not being on campus like being able to talk to

the people in your classes before and after class is definitely going to be a like something that's

missing from the experience but I will say when class ends at 10 and I only have to walk from the

...