A bottle of Riesling and a few nicotine gums.... I feel you :)

Congrats on surviving first week of grad school. It can be brutal, and it will get worse (be prepared), but you can overcome it. Just keep in mind why you are doing what you are doing.

Congrats AllieCat! I’ve been reading your posts for a long time (no, I am not a stalker:), and I am happy your dry, cutting humor (us from Canada spell it “humour”) gets to be appreciated by more than us, Jez readers. My brag? I just got my first significant teaching gig ( I taught before, at my alma mater), at a…