The balancing act

Grad school is a careful balancing act. It’s all about making the right decisions and finding the correct balances. For example you want to spend the time on your research, in the end you cannot get a PhD without having a volume of original research under your belt; but you have to do well in your coursework as well. In addition you are usually going to be a teaching assistant and you will need to spend the necessary time preparing your lectures and grading and helping students. It all adds up to much more than the number of hours actually available in a given week (and that’s not taking into account that you can only ingest so much caffeine before your body shuts down). Plus at some point you must shower and wash your clothes. So what has to go? Where do you bend and flex? Last night for example I needed to give and grade tests to my 50 students. They had to have their scores back by this morning. I have a presentation that is 100% of my grade in one class that is due Monday, and I have homework that is due this morning in another class. What do you do? It’s not a matter of should have done this sooner it’s a matter of no time and it has to be done anyway. Oh well I don’t have time to rant anymore ;)
Love to you all

by the way my last post was when I was very tired it was meant to be a funny rant.