Towards a PhD: Balance, where are you?

KruYing
1 min readJun 15, 2018

Day 75: 6/14/2018

It has been a good long day and I just finished working just before midnight.

I started the day with an appointment at a bank, breakfast at Brew and Brownie, and some shopping in the city center.

In the afternoon, though I felt a bit exhausted, I worked for almost two hours trying to generate some ideas for my proposal revision. It was tough and challenging when I was not physically ready. Finally, I decided to take a short nap at my desk. Unsurprisingly, the ideas came to me nonstop and it was my job to jot them down as quickly as they came to my head.

Reading through my proposal now, I still have quite a number of bubble comments to work on and that means numerous papers or books to read. At the same time, I have a relatively clear direction about where I am heading to and how to get there from now. The only thing left for me to do is to work on them and keep going until I reach the destination.

Overall, it was a good but somewhat not a productive day since the majority of my time was allocated for other aspects of life, too. I can’t help but wonder where “the balance” is?

6/15/2018 1.25 am.

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KruYing
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Written by KruYing

INFJ - educator - applied linguist #YouMeandYork #TowardsaPhD

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