(Written on July 1, 2018)
I realized a few minutes ago that my blog is everything but a blog and there's quite a lot that's taking place in my life (or at least isn't that boring) that's worth recording and sharing. I was looking at past posts of this sort and I realized also (which is fairly obvious) that the blog used be a nifty Pensieve.
So here we go.
The biggest target that's in front of me these days is to complete my second year paper. Some words of description. The second year is that wonderful thing of no consequence in your immediate PhD life but everyone initially hopes it would be the genesis of a precocious prodigious paper of such force that you'd get a top 5 publication by the end of your fourth year by which time of course you'd be the toast of the town, ready to lap up the praises and choosing your ultimate job destination.
As you'd imagine it, by the time there's a month left most students end up just wanting to end the damn thing. It turns out to be winding maze filled with dead ends, with the sneaking suspicion that there is no true way after all. People do learn I suppose and they often learn what they dislike. The latter is the true charm of this challenge.
So where am I?
I think I am not exactly at the stage where I want to leave it all and vacation in Europe. I do have something and it's not clear if it's publishable. What this means is that I just have to spend the next month working my heart and soul out.
What is it about? Top secret. For a month.
(Before getting down and dirty for the paper I was back in India.)
So here we go.
The biggest target that's in front of me these days is to complete my second year paper. Some words of description. The second year is that wonderful thing of no consequence in your immediate PhD life but everyone initially hopes it would be the genesis of a precocious prodigious paper of such force that you'd get a top 5 publication by the end of your fourth year by which time of course you'd be the toast of the town, ready to lap up the praises and choosing your ultimate job destination.
As you'd imagine it, by the time there's a month left most students end up just wanting to end the damn thing. It turns out to be winding maze filled with dead ends, with the sneaking suspicion that there is no true way after all. People do learn I suppose and they often learn what they dislike. The latter is the true charm of this challenge.
So where am I?
I think I am not exactly at the stage where I want to leave it all and vacation in Europe. I do have something and it's not clear if it's publishable. What this means is that I just have to spend the next month working my heart and soul out.
What is it about? Top secret. For a month.
(Before getting down and dirty for the paper I was back in India.)
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