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You may consider this, she wrote, a formal notice from the Program allowing you to register again for classes. Welcome back, she wrote.

I'm back in grad school. There was the moment of elation, and now here comes the spiral of terror and despair, right on schedule, because I am nothing if not totally punctual in my neuroses.

Tempering that, however, is the excitement. I get to be in grad school again! I get to read things! Oh god, I have to write things. Hey, look how I'm right back where I started.

It's cool. It's cool. It's all, all, good. Oh god.