Pieces of my (PhD-) Life (prt 3)
Thoughts on procrastination and why “online” classes are demanding
15/May/2020
Yesterday
I didn’t sleep well so my morning started late and slow. I had my
porridge and my black coffee in this beautiful mug, depicting The Duke
and Duchess of Sussex. Yes, I really like this mug, so please don’t
judge.
Each of my mugs has a meaning, maybe I should write a about it, haha. I
would be also interested in your mug-stories actually!
I didn’t want to continue with the brain tumor lecture. But I knew that I had to.
I
think I know what is demanding and boring about Power point talks
(voice recordings per slide): When I get bored, I cannot listen to music
to uplift my mood. So what I do after successfully finishing 2 slides
without distraction, is to scroll through tumblr, check my emails
(constantly anyways), and check my fav blogs. Forget about youtube, I
know that I will be spending only 2 min there before I remember the
lecture. And suddenly, the only two functioning cells in my brain think:
You can listen to the power point talk while you scroll through tumblr.
*yeahhh* *Great idea* My other brain cells wake up instantly.
This
is why I procrastinate: There is no way I can make my lecture
experience better. Meanwhile there are so many ways I can distract
myself. And I think that occasionally checking emails won’t do any harm,
I am still focusing... wrong! Multi-tasking doesn’t exists. I replay the slide and wonder why it takes me so long.
Interestingly, when I discussed the lecture with my boyfriend and told him about the new promising therapies in brain tumors, I realized that the hours spending with this lecture were worth it. I did remember quite a bit and actually enjoyed it. It just need to revise as soon as possible. And it is very important to take breaks! If I could just turn on my “This is so interesting”-cells and turn off the “I am annoyed by the quality of the recordings”-cells...
Yesterday when I was looking for the next
book to read, I picked up this one by Max Frisch (not reading this at
the moment), and when I opened the book, I saw these little beauties, I
wanted to share with you:
A four-leaf clover which we think was already in there and a ginkgo leaf!
