Plowing ahead with research at UC-Merced

Being a first-year graduate student at a new university can be pretty rough. There's always work to do and places to help out. After reading my 200 pages per week for Professor Heit's class I like to unwind by helping out with the landscaping on campus. Is it rational? Oh I don't know. I mean what is rational anyway? Possibly those clouds overhead are telling me that the answer is going to come raining down on me soon. Hopefully by Thursday.