A beautiful weekend crammed with hectic fun making is a notoriously difficult thing to recover from. It takes a lot of will power to show up at the lab on Monday morning. And even when you do, there are the inevitable hours of Facebooking, Orkutting, Gtalking and Emailing. One way to avoid this dilemma is to work through the weekend. It may sound drastic, but it isn't so bad if you somehow manage it so that you will never know what you missed. Or else, you should have a set of rituals which make it easier to slide back into the routine, like 3 cups of coffee and a early morning 8 AM class. Or, use the metaphor of entering a swimming pool. You can start off by hesitantly dipping your big toe, jump back and screw your face into a magnificent frown of distaste, then dip your right foot, jump about in agony, and finally totally immerse yourself. It is painful. Or else, you can come running and dive headlong into the cold clammy water, a brief moment of agony, which transforms into obliviousness, is all you need to endure. The choice is ours to make! ( I will make mine after I call up a few friends, clean up my desk, organize my music collection and say hi to colleagues in the neighboring lab :) )
ps. This is the 200th Post on this Blog!
4 comments:
Well written !
My solution is to make the weekend so hectic sometimes (with sports, obviously) that you wish to get out of it :) (or so you think...who am I kidding !!)
I agree..
But somehow weekends in lab are a lot of fun. :)
I go into the lab with my laptop and play music as I work. :)
Monday mornings are especially difficult to cope with, but so are all other mornings! In grad life, soon mon, tues, wed ... vanish and are replaced by 'deadline in 2days', 'no advisor meeting for 10days', ...! Once you view calender like that, its much easier getting to the lab and ... working (Oops, my mind almost typed 'relaxing' in the flow! :-)
@Ajay
Excellent idea. But wait a minute, if that was a workable policy, how did four years in COEP turn into an age when the weekends became so long that the week in between disappeared. :P
@Saee
That is something I will try out. Sounds enticing.
@Shruee
I agree. The weekly meeting with your advisor is what your life revolves around. If only, I had daily meetings, I can finish my PhD in a semester. :)
Post a Comment