Towards a PhD: An Emotional Day

KruYing
2 min readJan 1, 2019

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Day 271: 12/27/2018

It was another day filled with mixed feelings.

I woke up late again for another day. Though there were many things my mind kept telling me I had to do, my body wanted to linger in bed a little longer. In the end, the body won and I did not get much done in the morning. The conversation with Tuck kept me busy after breakfast and through the early afternoon.

As I had an appointment with Singha and Nutt later on in the afternoon, I needed to get started somewhere and some time. So I did and it was not a good start. On the one hand, I hated myself for not getting any work done, or to put it more precisely, for not getting to work at all for the past few days, especially this morning. On the other, I was still very much lingering in my holiday mood and did not want to move on. That was when frustration kicked in as I tried to get ready.

Then in the afternoon, after so many sudden changes of plan, we ended up meeting at The Press, an Italian restaurant opposite to Student Castle. Nutt, Singha and I met there. Our conversations got me feel energized, energetic, inspired but at the same time anxious, doubtful, and somewhat depressed. Non only did we cover a variety of topics in such a short period of time but also discussed our future plans.

At the end of the day after roaming around the city in search for a perfect wish-you-luck card for Nutt, I came home and spent way too much time on my phone.

Now the deadlines are scarily approaching. That means I really need to get the ball rolling. Now!

ph12/28/2018 12.26 am.

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KruYing
KruYing

Written by KruYing

INFJ - educator - applied linguist #YouMeandYork #TowardsaPhD

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