when to...?

Apr 30, 2007 14:56

So lately I have been restricting my WoW play to the weekends because I feel that I should devote the week to getting stuff done related to school work. It dawned on my last weekend though that now that the weather is nice it kinda sucks to get hooked into WoW on the weekends and not be doing something more... wholesome, I guess. I have lots of projects around the house that I need to be working on, from replacing ceilings to putting in tile to thinking about tearing up carpet and putting down bamboo flooring. These are projects that don't lend themselves well to splitting up into tiny chunks each night so I really need the weekends for them.

Side note, there is a little bird taking a bath in the small puddle that is left in the water garden which makes me think I should at least fill it all the way for the birds... doing that now.

Ok, better. So anyway, today I was thinking that maybe it would make more sense to just restrict WoW to 1-2 hour chunks during the evening and night hours of the day and keep the day time (both week and weekends) available for good daytime-type activities.

On a similar note related to time scheduling and stuff I feel like lately I've been kind of going in circles with my research project. I've certainly been trying to make progress, even Brian noticed how "studious" I have been lately since I'm always at my desk with a book and notepad out in front of me. I've been reading a lot of information and trying to work out a few equations but don't feel like I'm really getting any closer to solving the problem at hand.

Then of course there's the matter of the qualifier. I recently emailed Dr. Stilwell saying that I wanted to move the qualifier back a week to May 16th. He responded saying he thought it would be better if I put it off until after AUVFest. That's happening the first week of June. So I guess on one hand that's good, it gives me more time (assuming the graduate school approves the later date, which they most likely will) but on the other hand I feel like I've been making this drag on longer than it should. Stilwell mentioned that the best shot at making the qualifier easy was to submit an outstanding paper. I think he really is pushing to have me figure out an analytical solution to the covariance propagation problem I've been working on. It DOES make since that if I have an outstanding paper that provides all the answers to any questions one might ask about this project then the oral part of the exam should be a bit more straight forward with few surprise questions. I really do want to get a good answer to this question but that's the one that has been sending me in circles the past couple weeks.

Also I've been having trouble focusing at times, last week especially I felt like I couldn't stay in one place more than 30 minutes without getting totally distracted. So far this week (all 8 waking hours of it anyway) seems to be going a little better, I did manage to get some work done on homework this morning before coming home for lunch.

I don't know, at times I just feel I have some major issues with staying focused and at other times I feel like I can churn out a who lot of good work without even being conscious of the passage of time. One thing that got me out of wack the past two weeks was the lack of swimming. I think that really helps keep me grounded and balanced.

Anyway, just thoughts for food.

research, qualifier, wow

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