{"id":196,"date":"2008-12-29T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2008\/12\/29\/science_at_home_for_christmas\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T07:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:48:46","slug":"science_at_home_for_christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/erikacule\/2008\/12\/29\/science_at_home_for_christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Science at home for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been a number of posts around the blogosphere and elsewhere about the merits of<\/a> taking a break<\/a><\/p>\n

As the end of term approached a couple of weeks ago, some of my friends at college were alarmed when I explained that I had to do some studying over the holidays. This term’s lectures for the MSc course I am taking are examined in the first week of January, which strikes me as somewhat brutal, seeing as term doesn’t start until the 10th<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other students were less surprised…one commented that he would be in the lab over the vacation, another had a report to prepare for January, and a third, although she was getting away, was printing out a stack of `bettering’ reading to pile by her bed.<\/p>\n

Even in the absence of imminent deadlines, Jenny<\/a> has blogged about how scientific thinking follows us in our daily lives<\/a>. Even my Christmas gifts were related to what I do<\/a>. (Thanks Dad! \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

From the number of us who spend our days, evenings<\/a> and nights<\/a> reading about, writing about and doing science, it is a wonder that we seem to get so many other things done. (Example<\/a>.) Having taken a few days off slobbing out in front of the telly<\/a> I am fighting a tide of festive distractions, trying to get my brain back into gear and do some past papers. I recall a snippet from the Guardian<\/a> that I read in the run-up to undergraduate finals. Sometimes – or so the article claimed – you need to hang work-life-balance, and to immerse yourself in your deadlines until the pressure has passed. I must gird myself for the coming week and leaving my new Christmas reading until the dark nights of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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