my baby's in the white fluffy clouds

This is what I am most worried about, although I jumped into a trans theory class at Harvard head first in grad school, didn't know the first thing about what I was getting into, and after a very painful first month really nailed it --- and on the basis of taking that class ended up in my PhD program, really. So it's tricky. Probably what I'm going to do is email the professor and see if she thinks I'll be able to hack it.