A busy day

Labor Day must have been established so that everyone could labour more. On Labor Day, besides three hours of classes, Xiǎomī (小咪) also put in an additional five hours of teaching.

Teaching first-year undergraduate physics in the second year of a PhD. So be it. Whenever Xiǎomī teaches, he always tries his best to be the nicest person he possibly can be. He hopes his students will like him. When Xiǎomī was studying physics and mathematics in middle school and high school, he encountered all kinds of problems that his students are now encountering. Since someone taught him back then, he should now teach others with greater patience.

But no matter what, by the time Xiǎomī finished writing this chronological little blog entry after a day of going nonstop, he had already been completely wrung dry. Although he likes helping others understand something better, continuously talking for long stretches is mentally draining. Besides, he has his own things to do.

Xiǎomī believes that, over the past week and a little more, he has optimised his workflow as far as it can go. Yet the mountain of things piling up still encroaches upon the time he thought he could devote to reading and scientific research.

The next thing Xiǎomī needs to do is calculate the regions in the phase space of a neutron-star viscosity model where bulk viscosity and shear viscosity dominate. Yet he has not even begun the derivation for this part of the work. His meeting is on Wednesday. Wish him luck.

You are complaining about the little things in life, but life: