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Monday, February 20, 2006
This is your brain on graduate school
I'm taking the night off. Normally I would be working at least until midnight on reading, writing, organizing, etc. as I have been nonstop for the last week or so. Relief came in the form of my Paleoclimatology paper/class presentation being moved, giving me an extra week to write the paper and prepare the presentation. This couldn't come at a better time because my parents are visiting Tampa this week and we're going to Disneyworld on Friday and Saturday. So I no longer have to cram a week's worth of work into three days and I can actually relax a bit.
You know when you're cooking something with a skillet on the stovetop and you suddenly move the skillet over to the sink and turn on the cold water and the thing erupts in a frenzy of sizzling and steam? That's what it feels like to be really busy and stressed and then really relieved that you don't need to be for several days in a row.
P.S. - for me, "the night off" means doing something productive that's not directly related to my graduate work, such as reading textbooks about the ancient Maya for pleasure or organizing my blogroll.
Posted by Will at February 20, 2006 09:03 PM in Graduate School