study, poetry, chaos

march 2022

it’s approximately mid-march and life is so busy but the research is progressing nicely and the weather is getting warmer. currently working on applying control variates to my model and reviewing the literature in between running code. but really, all I do is sit in quiet coffee shops and stare at my computer screen.

3.28.22

72/100 days of productivity | 13.03.2022

2 1/2 weeks until deadline. 2 term papers left unfinished. not one chapter completely done. emotional support teddy bear for late shifts. pulling an icarus. let's hope I emerge with freckles not sunburn

things I did today:

work on my term paper

check guidelines again

go for a walk

stretches

That to me is the much harder kind of critical thinking, the empathetic kind of critical thinking that doesn’t criticize but reads carefully, critically, prudently and with empathy and connection to try to understand the other side, which I think is something that doesn’t just apply to the academic world, doesn’t just apply to how we write a paper in a class. It applies to how we read a blog post, how we judge a New York Times article, how we evaluate when someone has posted something on Twitter that they want us to hate or like to hate, as Twitter often is, whether the empathetic reading, which is the really challenging critical element, is there.”