Six weeks is a very short period for a ~25 person team to come together, reconcile goals and expectations, and produce results. Consequently, we are constantly on our toes, changing directions of research and taking risks as needed. Every day is different, and our week-to-week schedule is irregular, too. Despite this, I’ve fallen into somewhat of a routine here at JSALT.
Daily Schedule
In general, my days look a little something like this…
8am: I wake up, have some breakfast and listen to music at my apartment.
I check whatever process I have running in the morning because it’s likely to have failed the night before.
Around 8:45 I take the ‘scenic route’ from my apartment to the ETS building for work. In reality, it takes about four minutes to walk from door to door. I take about 15 minutes, sometimes making circles around buildings just to spend some more time in the warm sunshine and fresh air before I’m holed up in the lab all day.