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Where does a day go?
Today I got into the lab about noon, decided to read old lecture notes for lectures I hadn't been to instead of go to the Types lecture. I would, I thought, get lunch at about 1:30pm, then head into town to buy cheese and meat and food-making stuff to repelenish my stocks, head over to the Careers Fair to get my CV checked out by the Careers Service and possibly get some careers advice, wander back via the IT Fair thing, have a shower, and *then* it would be this kind of time, or maybe an hour later.
Instead, I have sat here since then. I have applied for another job, forgetting to save the Random Burble About Core Competencies for future forms yet again. I have read slightly over half of the notes for a course I only made it to half the lectures on which is now finished. I completely forgot to do my supervision work for tomorrow's supervision, which is what I'll be doing when I finish writing this, but I needed to vent. How did I manage to take up five hours reading half a course worth of notes and filling in a job application form? I have very briefly done other things, like read the scrollback on IRC and write some email, but that couldn't have taken more than an hour, an hour and a half if I'm feeling pessimistic.
And now my day is basically over; I'll do these two exam questions, and by then it will be past 6, and I will have to run off to Hall in order to have eaten *something* today (I did eat breakfast), and then out to this Hill Celebration thing at 6:50pm, and that will be all.
Wah.
Today I got into the lab about noon, decided to read old lecture notes for lectures I hadn't been to instead of go to the Types lecture. I would, I thought, get lunch at about 1:30pm, then head into town to buy cheese and meat and food-making stuff to repelenish my stocks, head over to the Careers Fair to get my CV checked out by the Careers Service and possibly get some careers advice, wander back via the IT Fair thing, have a shower, and *then* it would be this kind of time, or maybe an hour later.
Instead, I have sat here since then. I have applied for another job, forgetting to save the Random Burble About Core Competencies for future forms yet again. I have read slightly over half of the notes for a course I only made it to half the lectures on which is now finished. I completely forgot to do my supervision work for tomorrow's supervision, which is what I'll be doing when I finish writing this, but I needed to vent. How did I manage to take up five hours reading half a course worth of notes and filling in a job application form? I have very briefly done other things, like read the scrollback on IRC and write some email, but that couldn't have taken more than an hour, an hour and a half if I'm feeling pessimistic.
And now my day is basically over; I'll do these two exam questions, and by then it will be past 6, and I will have to run off to Hall in order to have eaten *something* today (I did eat breakfast), and then out to this Hill Celebration thing at 6:50pm, and that will be all.
Wah.
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Date: 2005-11-10 10:27 pm (UTC)From:Sounds like quite a lot to me. Would almost certainly take me more than 5 hours to do that.
The Cambridge system has a strange way of making the people going through it think the inordinate amount of work that they do each day is actually very little and insignificant. Just remember, that no one there is actually on top of everything there. The whole point is you don't need to be, you just need to persevere and pull yourself through.
One of the things that makes a Cambridge Degree worth quite a bit on a CV is that is it's basically a badge saying "I managed to survive being burried alive in work"... and it's this that's worth a lot more than whatever result you get in the end.
Do you switch off from work when you go to things like the Hill Celebration thing? I know it's easier said than done, but if not try to make sure you do. Everyone needs a bit of recovery time to ease the stress.