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