The time trap around PhD

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2016-01-28 Jung Chang Mathematics Life

For a PhD student, a day of scientific research work can start from eight o'clock in the morning, until late at night, but in what state, what kind of mood to carry out this day of scientific research is a key issue. Usually, there is a pit in the office, a time trap specializing in the pit of PhD, and the trap is often dug by himself.

A PhD can get up at 8:00 and can arrive at the office around 8:30 after the wash is finished. Go downstairs, go downstairs to buy a small shop a little bread on the stairs. After that, go to a pot of boiling water, go to the bathroom to wash yesterday's Cup, and then brew a cup of coffee in front of your desk.

8:30 this time usually will automatically open the computer, and then link the wireless network, thought: A day's work began. But after turning on the computer, the first one to open is often not latex or Word documents, but a variety of browsers. The first login is their own mailbox, see if there is a school sent by the Mail, the boss sent the mail. OK, if not, see if there are any discounts and promotions. If there is, then look at all kinds of online shopping website, see if there is something you need. It's been one hours since we moved around the Internet.

9:30. This time Facebook above a message bounced out, originally a friend left a word, landing up to reply, by the way update their latest status, and reply to some of the new friends. This time saw a good news, login Baidu search a bit, to NetEase, Sina above to look at the comments of netizens, by the way a little water poured.

Sitting for one hours, should get up and shake a bit, humming a little song to the bathroom, slowly washed a hand, it is already 10:00. This time, the department inside of the Mail came, so that the day after tomorrow to submit a report, so slowly opened the Word document. Tangled 10 minutes later, do not know how to start, suddenly think of Google is the best teacher, went up to search a lot of information, stored in the computer hard disk, feel that first look at the beginning to write their own report more appropriate, so it has been over 10:30. This time to think of the morning to get up early, rice is not full, half an hour to eat today's lunch, do not need to research in the morning. So take it for granted that play for a while, it is logical to persuade themselves to open the Diablo 3, went up to see his past equipment, today did not complete the task is what, to create some new equipment, demolition of some useless things.

Well, 11:15, office suddenly remembered a knock on the door, the other office of a PhD to knock on the door, shouting everyone to eat lunch, because 12:00 when the canteen was crowded. Downstairs to eat, eat dinner, 12:00 just good, look at the line below the crowd, feel themselves early down to eat very wise.

Back to the office, feel that just finished eating rice, you can rest, not immediately into the bitter force of scientific research work, so once again opened the computer, click on the browser, entered the Web site Sina, read the latest sports news, the latest NBA results, the latest football transfer news. After watching the news, I felt unsatisfied, opened YouTube, and watched the TV show that I didn't read yesterday.

Well, it's already 14:00 in the meantime. You should start writing your own paper, open latex, and find that the way you think yesterday is wrong, and you should revisit your thesis steps. Well, it's still a matter of turning over a similar problem to others. Open Google search again, search for a while, found that Google's function is very powerful, the search for their own needs of the paper, but if you do not log into the school database, you can not download the paper. Then opened the School Library Web site, filled out their user name and password, OK, everything went well, downloaded the paper and went to print room print out.

15:00, suddenly glanced at his schedule, suddenly remembered that this time is the tea break, there is free food and coffee, so take their own cup downstairs, find some PhD students, the department of the teacher chatted for a while, ate some things, talked about the latest news. After one hours, the Tea break ended and took its own cup back to office.

It was now 16:00, and suddenly felt that his desk was a little dirty, so he took a rag to the bathroom and got wet to office and wiped his desk clean. 16:15, this time remembered, the furnace stone legend every day new tasks are updated at this time. Took out the ipad, opened the furnace stone legend of the app, looked at the task today, I feel that I will be able to complete today, so played a few furnace stone legend.

At 17:00 I thought it was possible to start downstairs for supper, so I shouted a few friends from office and went downstairs to the cafeteria. In the elevator, someone proposed to go out to eat, improve their own food, in the following canteen has been fed up. So I went to the subway station and headed out to the restaurant. After dinner, you can pack up your work in office and return to your dorm.

In fact, in the PhD's office, there has been such a time trap, will make a person always in a very busy illusion. Look at your computer in the upper right corner of the time 1.1 points past, but the things you should do is not dry at all. This is procrastination, so that you can not escape from this situation, only in a vortex deeper and deeper.