Had a video talk with mom for one hour just now. I dislike that she asks me every time through email or on phone: how is your research? When to publish your paper? Have you started collecting information about job market? Will you graduate two years later?
This time, I did not hold myself and told my mom I was stressed out by those questions. Some students can publish Science, Natures, Neurons while some students can make only one 'regular' paper. Unfortunately, I am a student on the latter side. I have too many problems to solve once I stepped on this land which is completely new to me. I need to learn how to talk to others because I was too shy to be talkative. I need to learn how to understand people in English, because my English learning was from tapes, videos and books in China. I need to learn how this scientific system is organized and operated. I need to learn how to write a paper! Oh, gosh. I even gave mom a bad example showing why I hate that kind of question - I asked her a similar question.
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