Archive for February 25th, 2008

Unmotivated

February 25th, 2008

So lately I’ve been so unmotivated with school. Maybe it’s because it’s my last (hopefully) semester so I have senioritis (despite being in grad school). And it’s not for lack of wanting to be motivated. I want to get finished with my research and get out of here. I don’t want to work in this lab synthesizing the same compounds forever. But I suppose part of me is comfortable here and doesn’t want to leave and explore the doors that will open with this advanced degree.

In either case, it doesn’t change the fact that I’m taking two classes that for the most part bore me but I have to take them and I have to do well in them. And they aren’t boring classes, for me it’s just a boring presentation of interesting material. I guess I wish that professors would stop standing up in front of the class teaching from notes they compiled on the subject five to ten years ago and actually get their students interested in the subjects. Or at least stop handing me complete notes that you’ll teach from with a date stamp from 1992 and expect me to pay attention. I’d really wish that for these smaller graduate level classes they would make them more interactive and less preaching. But I suppose you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

Sick + Work == Bad

February 25th, 2008

As you may have guessed, I’m at work sick.  It’s not so much one of this sicknesses where the symptoms are actually noticeable.  It just one of those colds where it is annoying.  I’m sitting here attempting to work on training documents for Project 2007 listening to Leo Laporte’s The Tech Guy podcast on my Zune and I just can’t focus.  There is only about 2.5 hours left in the day, but I am starting to get exhausted and don’t know how much longer I can last.

Colds just suck!  I will continue to load up on Dayquil/Nyquil, Zicam, and a ton of Vitamin C.  Maybe I can stop this cold before it gets really bad.