Well, I survived my first week and a half of school. That included my first homework assignment--in epidemiology (the measure and study of the spread of disease in humans). It's a little weird to be doing math problems and such things--I'm so used to homework being read a book, then talk about it in class. Very open-ended, qualitative, no rigth answers, just theories with enough information to back it up. One of my public health classes is like that.
This program, on the other hand, is very quantitative--statistics, surveys, concise, compact; we never read a whole book, just articles. Read this article, then do problems 6.3 6.7, 6.11. Quantitative people don't have time for whole books--the TAs actually have to prep some of the students on how to read qualitative articles for a couple of the classes, because they've never read them before.
So it's different for me. I keep sane by reading books at home, for fun. Not as much time for it as before, but I'll go insane without it.
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