This year is a crucial year for me. I need to make progress to bring depth into my research. I have been going in lab earlier and going home later than the usual, thinking that it could buy me more time to do experiments, to read papers and to think about my research. I even cut down time spent on the net (thus less blog entries or shorter ones, some are written at one go and scheduled to publish at different time intervals). However, after a week, I realised I'm not as productive as I thought I would have been.
Yes I manage to do some experiments, but still there's no time to even write my log book, not to mention to think about my research or read papers. Even to run a few different experiments in the same day remains a challenge for me. Is it because I do not manage my time well? Everyday after back from lab, it's dinner + scan the newspapers + take bath..... and it's almost 10 or 10.30pm. Then I started yawning and have to go to bed. I don't even have time to do any leisure reading lately. Even if I have, I would fall asleep halfway reading. What about house chores? I'll leave them till the weekend...
Luckily, I still have one or two nights to go for movie with HG or go for dance practice. And I have a whole Sunday to go to temple and do things I enjoy at home in the afternoon. I believe research is important but at the same time I believe life has more to offer too, so I'm not the 24 hr/ 7days kind of researcher. But I'm beginning to doubt my belief... I need more time but too bad time is always fair in giving only 24 hours to each individual regardless of who you are.
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