Ever since I picked out my majors, I’ve been dead-set on attending graduate school, and the Grad School 101 Seminar didn’t change that in the slightest. However, after hearing what Zach Grobe had to say about the process as a whole, I’ve been able to better orient myself in the process and I feel far more prepared. Ironically, despite having learned so much more about the process of finding and attending a graduate program, this new knowledge has led me to feeling unprepared in new ways that I never expected. This feeling of having gone two-steps-forward and one-step-back is not the fault of the seminar, but rather, the mysterious nature of the path to graduate school. And despite this seemingly counterproductive result,  it’s actually the best possible outcome. As a result of the seminar, I have become acutely aware of what’s ahead, and I can now better prepare myself by taking small, meticulous steps early rather than large, clumsy ones later.