The Changes
I made a few conscious moves today. First, I dropped all my classes for this quarter. They were really interesting and I would love to take them, but they are more work than I can handle right now. Second, I excused myself from all of QoH and his research related tasks/activities. Right now, I don’t see them having enough returns for me to justify so much effort. So for the next 3 months, ALL I have to do is keep J happy and make progress at my internship. This solves two problems. First, if J remains happy, he will fund my stay in grad school and I don’t have to worry about QoH pulling the plug on me. Secondly, the research I am doing for J is actually pretty exciting. It is challenging, but exciting. If I get the device to work, it will be good for my career just incase I stick to stupid engineering. I had detailed discussions about this with QoH last weekend. He has been really understanding and supportive. He is worried that I might burn out at this rate, and just make a mess of myself. He was the one is suggested that I take a break from his research for a while. Now, that is quality advising.
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By Nopostonsundays, October 17, 2005 @ 8:28 pm
Your blogs are very personal, but I don’t mind. I can still relate the havoc I am going through at this moment.
I think I have a severe case of OCD, or some other kind of mental illness. I don’t want to tell my parents, because I don’t want them to be ashamed of their child, and quite frankly, I don’t see a problem with being a prefectionist.
But sometimes, its very hard for me to handle my schoolwork on top of that. I personally don’t see why I have to continue with my tenth consecutive year of my English Grammar Education. Nor do I find any logic to study about Advanced Calculus, or Chemistry. I am not interested in those feilds, and find no reason to excel in them.
My world history class is riddled with blatant propaganda (communists= absolute evil), and my foreign language class is incredibly difficult to deal with. I’m already struggling with english, why do I have to learn spanish??
Yeah, I can relate.
By RageyOne, October 17, 2005 @ 10:42 pm
Good for you! You really have to think about yourself and make decisions that are beneficial to you.
By zelda, October 20, 2005 @ 9:49 am
sounds like a good plan!
By Hulai, October 22, 2005 @ 2:54 am
I admire your courage!