PhD-life lessons: the nature of ups and downs (and histograms)
This is (inadvertently) a blog consisting of several different parts. Because unbeknownst to me, ALL THE TIME has gone by and despite having 'write blog' on my to do list every day, I haven't quite managed. That's perhaps the subject of a blog all on its own. It's an intriguing effect because it's not like my previous job wasn't ridiculously busy most of the time; I am capable of managing multiple priorities. But time has moved in a way recently where I genuinely haven't noticed that days have gone by. Perhaps a function of not having many deadlines and having relatively unstructured (or at least inconsistently structured) days? This is a mildly tricky factor in the whole 'getting longer term things done' arena, including writing a fairly substantial thesis... Mmm. In the interests of being a complete nerd, I have (of course) been keeping a very rudimentary daily tracker of how i'm feeling. (Literally, 'how I am feeling' at the en...