Grad Hacker

Let me be straight with you, I like the idea of routines. I like the idea of having a life where I know that at this time, I’m working, and at that time, Im not working, letting me thus “not work” guilt free. Fixed schedules seem to allow avoiding two deadly grad school traps: 1) [...]

First of all, let me comment (make excuses) for this week’s performance:
1. I went to a rockin’ NBA game in the middle of the week which kept me up late that night so that threw off the next day by a lot.
2. I didn’t have as many days to average out that day because I [...]

The tortoise won the race my friends, the tortoise won the race. I can take comfort in the fact that on any given week I am not drastically changing my schedule, which according to gurus and experts everywhere means my habit change is more likely to last…right?
I did cross the 8:30am mark, which is exciting.
What [...]

Is it possible that I managed to go to sleep almost a half hour earlier (10:19 pm average) and only get to work 4 minutes earlier on average? Who goes to sleep at 10 o’clock, sleeps 8 hours to the minute, and doesn’t get to work until 8:30am? That’s absurd.
I do workout in the morning [...]

Photo by: scui3asteveo
So here are the results of my early rising experiments for Week 1. I want to emphasize that it’s my first week, so I’m still learning! My goal is to get into work by 8:00am, including days when I go to the gym in the morning (supposed to be 2 out of the [...]

Photo by: prakhar

I’m going to start a series of weekly posts that track my experiences with trying to wake up earlier on weekdays. A combination of realizing that I am more alert and energetic in the morning and this post on zenhabits made me want to try. I’ve been doing this for a couple of [...]