8.00 AM: Alarm rings, look at the clock and decide you will get up after 1 hour and make it a point to switch off the alarm!
11.30 AM: Wake up and realize it is almost noon and you have a class at 12.20. Have a half-bath wishing you could sleep for 2 more hours and cursing yourself.
Noon: Catch the bus and start chatting with fellow desies. Discussions range from cricket to revolutionize the American Government
12.18 PM: Enter the class along with the professor
1.20 PM: Wake up after a very strong dosage of “λγβδφ”. You had no clue as to what the professor was talking about coz you didn’t attend the previous lecture (Had other important work to do – was in the middle of an interesting chat conversation with friends in India)
1.30 PM: Go to the lab and start browsing the Internet. By luck you land up on the course website and find out that you have an assignment due that night (some 10 problems). Very confident that you can finish it on time, you carry on with other stuff…
1.40 PM: Log on to Yahoo / MSN Messenger and wait for friends to come online.
2.15 PM: Your friends have logged off and you have nothing to do.
2.30 PM: Grab something to eat in Subway/ TacoBell (Too lazy to cook or carry food from home)
2.45 PM: Go to work and speak to your supervisor about something that you should have completed a week back… Tell him you had some technical difficulties and troubleshooting which had to be handled.
3.00 PM: Sit in your cubicle and stare at the computer screen wondering what to do. Then remember that your parents had sent you a mail two days back and you still hadn’t replied. After sending mails start working!!
6.15 PM: Go home. On the way home, talk to some 3 people on phone and tell them how busy you are ;)
6.30 PM: Start off promising yourself that you will watch TV for only 30mins. End up watching TV for 2 hours.
8.30 PM: Realize it is your cooking turn and cook some random dish (Poor roommates)
9.30 PM: Finish dinner and suddenly remember that an assignment is due that night!!
11.00 PM: You are stuck with a problem. Call up Tanya and ask her if she knows how to do it.. She is in no better position than you. Crib to her for 10 min about how difficult this course is and how the professor is not considerate at all and gives assignments every week.
11.15 PM: Call up Vikram (a total stud and would have already submitted the assignment for sure). He tells you what you have to do (use β reduction instead of δ)
11.50 PM: You are finally done with the assignment and submit it. Sigh!!
12.00 AM: Your friend comes home and asks you if you want to watch a movie… You have nothing to do anyways!!
2.30 AM: Get back home after watching a totally stupid movie… You promise yourself that you are going to become disciplined and will start getting up at 7.00 AM everyday and will not procrastinate things anymore.
Next day you completely forget the promise!!
5 comments:
Sounds a lot like my day, except for the supervisor part...I goto sleep pretty much after 3 am and wake up ( despite multiple resetting of the alarm clock) at 11am...( mebe I shld write a blog post on this too!)
really good one!
I especially liked the "tell ppl how busy you are" part coz thats what all desis do :)
Jay:
I guess most of us (FOBs) have this kind of life!!
Sid:
Spot on! We never change ;)
wow.. sounds very much like my day.. except that I have 3 alarms.. the first one is set to the desired (or motivated) wake-up time -- almost never works, the second one is set to "safe" wake-up time i.e. you will have good margin if you respond to it -- mostly gets ignored and the final one is set to the "absolute" wake-up time i.e. if you miss this, you will be in trouble -- sort of works as the actual wakeup time is within +/- 10mins margin. Of course, if you don't have a critical thing to do, none of the above works. :=) I love morning sleeps.
Ricky:
I guess getting up in the morning is the most difficult thing during grad school
Venkatesh:
Be it sunny or cloudy every morning I wish I could sleep for 15 more mins irrespective of the time I get up!
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