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Signs that you're truly an academic/scientist? Someone sends you a database of every piece of data you need for part of your project (saving you months of research), and you can't even sleep because you're so excited thinking about the possibilities.
So yeah, I haven't had much sleep in the past few days. Stress is part of it but also I'm kinda wired and excited about my dissertation now that I had to make up all that fake data (and making up good fake data is hard work). I showed it off and my adviser really likes it (and casually solved one of my recording problems.) I really am a visual/spatial learner I guess, because talking about the dissertation did nothing for me but measuring things, looking at photos, and making graphs drove it home.
Despite the lack of sleep, the stress of the past few weeks is starting to pay off in extensive networking benefits (see first paragraph), and fantastic grades (I got the South Asian midterm back and got 100 on it). It'd help to have a life too, but I'll try that by going to the Hayden feast tomorrow, and I made everyone pumpkin cookies this week so that's some social interaction. Currently trying to refresh my Japanese which is weird to do after five solid months of Korean.
So yeah, I haven't had much sleep in the past few days. Stress is part of it but also I'm kinda wired and excited about my dissertation now that I had to make up all that fake data (and making up good fake data is hard work). I showed it off and my adviser really likes it (and casually solved one of my recording problems.) I really am a visual/spatial learner I guess, because talking about the dissertation did nothing for me but measuring things, looking at photos, and making graphs drove it home.
Despite the lack of sleep, the stress of the past few weeks is starting to pay off in extensive networking benefits (see first paragraph), and fantastic grades (I got the South Asian midterm back and got 100 on it). It'd help to have a life too, but I'll try that by going to the Hayden feast tomorrow, and I made everyone pumpkin cookies this week so that's some social interaction. Currently trying to refresh my Japanese which is weird to do after five solid months of Korean.
