Maybe I'm just also waiting for Mico to finish his meeting so we can sleep at the same time.
Sometimes I take a sleep aid pill just to fall asleep. When I do, I usually wake up nine to ten hours after. Wow. Not only do I fall asleep quickly, the pill also tends to put me in an overdrive of sleep.
Random typing of thoughts, I love this.
So anyway today, I woke up late for class because I slept super duper late the night before. I awoke and dressed up with just about three or four hours of sleep. Then I rushed to school on my Tuesday bike, panting and sweating as I rode uphill Camp Bowie Road. I arrived an hour and a half late for class and decided not to enter the room anymore. I was too shy. Nakakahiya nang pumasok, sobrang late na ako. So I decided to just head to the lab and do some journal reading. Additionally, I was able to email Clark Labs and got a reply regarding the installation of the TerrSet. I'm excited to learn and use it. Maybe I'll be a GIS expert after my PhD. Wouldn't that be great. I'll be able to process data and write papers about it.
Sigh. Isn't life full of writing reports? Lahat na lang kailangan isulat. Well, like Adam Savage said, "the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down." Scientists need to write down the findings of their research and publish it in journals. Otherwise, that information will not be known by others and cannot be used as reference in other studies. That information cannot be picked up by other scientists to be developed further. For example, the information that we gathered in the field when I was with the Dynaslope Team, sobrang dami nun. Sobra. If only I knew what to do with it, we could've written a paper or papers about it. Maybe I will some day. Maybe all I need to do is to get in touch with the community team and see what we can write about it.
I'm thankful in a way that my parents encouraged me to join school newspapers so I was able to express myself through writing. I believe I am not a good writer per se, but through practice, driven mostly by need, I was able to harness it. And because of it, I was able to write a couple of publications. I'm pretty sure I learned most of my writing prowess during my time at the ANU. Dun talaga nahasa yung pagsusulat ko, lalong lalo na yang CRWF 8000, the BEST subject there is in the whole the Crawford School of Public Policy. No wonder it's always a full house for that class. Stephen Howes, hands down, one of the most engaging professors I've encountered. Probably also because the topics he's discussing are very relevant and elicits numerous perspectives from people of different backgrounds. That course will FORCE YOU TO THINK CRITICALLY, WRITE IT DOWN ON PAPER, and BE GIVEN CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK ON YOUR WORK. And that's the magic of CRWF 8000. Eureka moment: This is such a great strategy/template for teaching environmental science!!! Give the student relevant readings, post an engaging question that elicits answers of varying perspectives, let the students argue and defend their stand, et voila! Make sure that the requirements (exams) for class are few (for CRWF 8000 we only needed to submit THREE ESSAYS, with a max word count of 1,500 for each essay --- pucha ang hirap niyan!!!) yet it will make the students dig down into their mental bowels for what to write, and more challengingly, how to keep it within the word limit!!! Ay sows I remember my CRWF 8000 days, THE BEST!!! It was tough and challenging, but the hard times are the best times!
Anyway, I think I'm going to lie down now. Maybe the sleep aid is working. I've done enough mental sharing, time to read some good literature by Joshua Foer.
Good night! Rather, good morning!!
