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A grad-student emotion check-list
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6:30am Wakeup and lie awake in Bed
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6:31 Realize you spent $18 on last night's dinner, means no eating out
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for the next 6 weeks
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6:32 Hit snooze button. Go back to sleep.
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7:00 Wake up suddenly with heart in mouth when you realize you didn't hit
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the snooze button--you turned it off.
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7:01 fall asleep again.
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7:44 Wake up with heart in mouth again.
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7:45 Ready to go to school, will shave tommorrow, will eat early brunch at
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(Denny's/Penny's/Lenny's/Dinko's whatever cafeteria).
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8:03 Arrive at school
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Realize your foreign officemate arrived earlier today
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must have got more work done
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8:04 Pass by Advisor's office, chat with Secretary to find out if he is
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coming in today. He is, darn.
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Need to start work on the draft due this afternoon.
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8:15 Read electronic mail
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8:20 Delete mail from students taking CMPSC201 regarding questions
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about the class.
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Hate your TA job.
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Depression: too much work to do today
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9:00 For jumpstart: go to Pepsi machine.
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9:05 Kick Pepsi machine; promise yourself to call up the company
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and ask for your money back.
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Wonder why they would beleive you.
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9:33 Start printing out loads of stuff that may be vaguely related to
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your work.
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9:41 Early morning stupefaction.
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Mutter racist comments to yourself about your officemate.
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9:43 Curse your officemate in a low tone he would not comprehend.
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Feel good about him not grasping English well.
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9:58 Finger everyone in the department and most people half way
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around the world (using the "finger" command, of course)
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10:19 Feel sleepy, should not have stayed late playing tetris last night.
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10:31 momentary panic attack!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10:43 edit .plan file. write a shell program to edit .plan more easily
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10:59 Drop in at advisor's office and borrow something you dont need
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& and kinda make him aware you are working hard on your project.
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11:05 perverted daydreams
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11:11 read electronic news
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mid-morning yawn time
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11:34 Start typing junk at a very high key-in rate to pretend
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you are working hard as your advisor passes by from outside.
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11:35 Press the BackSpace key for one and a half minute until all
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the garbage you typed in is erased.
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Realize that you can type more than 256 characters per half minute
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11:41 Flirt with the new girl in the department
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11:45 Print out some slides for afternoon's draft + presentation
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11:47 Print them again, you forgot to change the date from last
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presentation
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11:49 Print another copy in case this one gets lost
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11:51 Completely forget about sueing the coffee-machine company
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12:15 Hunger pangs:
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12:20 BigMac/Fries time
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Drink a not-so-cold generic can of cola from your desk.
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Ch-Ching, you just saved 35 cents by buying bulk cola.
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1:00 Group Meeting with advisor
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1:14 sudden awareness of one's shallowness
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resentment towards foriegn officemate for sucking up to your advisor
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Get reminded by your advisor that you need to do some more work
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for your literature survey.
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1:51 Advisor hands you the reddened copy of your draft for corrections
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1:51:02 The 49 second urge to murder advisor begins!!
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1:51:52 Realize that he controls your assistantship/grade/
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graduation possiblity/graduation date/all job opportunities/
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and the rest of your life.
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1:52:53 Thank him
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1:52:54 Thank yourself for not saying something stupid to your advisor.
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1:53:00 splitting headache #1
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1:59 Check electronic mail, don't reply though, you are too busy to do that
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2:06 More generic cola
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2:17 Oh No, it is my turn to cook tonite :-(
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2:30 Sit through the class you were told to sit through
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2:39 Look outside the window make unrealistic plans to quit
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this degree program and take up a job.
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Wonder why blonde girls are so pretty.
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2:48 More perverted day-dreams.
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Close the office door and open a few .gif files.
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sharpen pencil
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3:06 worry about never graduating
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time to write a letter--NOT! no time for that.
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rearrange desk
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call up bank; see if you have any money
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fear of losing aid next Fall
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Read latex manuals to figure out how to put &$%&% in %$^% format
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3:43 watch the clock
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make plans to do a all-nighter tonite
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Vow to watch only 2 TV programs
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4:58 Notice Advisor leave
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4:58:01 Sudden sense of freedom
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Go home for quick, short dinner break.
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9:00pm Come into the office
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9:01pm The hard working grad student you are, you have to come to the
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office late at night to "get the work done"
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9:03 Check electronic mail
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Decide it would be a good time to attack those ftp sites
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since network wont be loaded
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Run into "since network wont be loaded" traffic and get the
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pictures into your machine.
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Compress all unwanted research/class directories to make space.
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Back up all your pictures
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10:11 Admire pictures
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Begin work; Realize you need references
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Realize its too late today to go to the library
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Sudden feeling of having wasted the day
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10:49 Sudden feeling of possibly having to waste the night
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Decide to turn in early and come back very early tommorrow morning
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Decide to play a Tetris on the system to put yourself in a good mood.
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11:15 Play game after game after game to improve your score and
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get on the scoreboard.
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Realize that your officemate is still at number 6, two notches
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above you on the scoreboard.
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12:20 Play until you beat your officemate into the 7th place.
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A sense of achievment!! Yes, today was not wasted!!
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Return home to find your roommate watching David Letterman reruns
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on NBC. Tell him about the "hard working grad student day you had"
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Discuss philosophy with roommate
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1:09 Think about becoming a philosopher and dining with 4 others
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(The Dining Philosophers problem, hee hee :-) (Comp Sci joke)
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Argue with him about politics, why people prefer Japanese
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cars and whether it is better to set the heat to "hot" or "cold"
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to defrost the windshields faster.
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1:49 Realize neither of you have bought milk today
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Get reminded of the "too much milk problem"
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2:04 Forget about getting up early. Turn the phone ringer off
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and go to sleep.
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(repeat)
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