It's always re-assuring knowing that people are counting on you and that you enter knowing that the sum of your experiences have prepared you to treat this endeavor seriously. It's not just school for me; it's a job now.
Preparation and motivation will come together to make for an incredibly productive school year for me. And just like a job, I'll get to all the classes, note any hypos and embrace the ability of just soaking up information left & right. Office hours. Practice exams.
All in the pursuit of excellence, because it pays to be a winner and it sucks to be a loser. One might start out low in the depth chart, or on the totem pole. But that doesn't mean it has to end that way. No no. Plenty of times we've seen those that come in at the top end up dropping out. And those at the bottom, who barely scrape their way in a waitlist, take nothing for granted, and wind up doing just fantastic. Pays to be a winner because the only easy day was yesterday.
