How do you do? Welcome to the human race.

You're a mess.

I know this sounds incredibly lame

but the one person I’ve found on campus who studies exactly what I want to study (someone whose work is among the primary reasons I chose this school) is leaving on sabbatical in a few weeks.   She’ll be gone for 18 months - basically the entire time I’ll be formulating and writing my thesis.  This is ridiculously bad news and is making me wonder what the fuck I’m even doing here for these first two years.