Writing

It has been quite a while since I wrote in my blog. Maybe I am always occupied with other works. Being a graduate student is really busy, especially when it comes to publishing a paper. I couldn't remember how many hours I have spent last few weeks meeting with my professor and working days and nights for the paper. I was so touched when I saw my name listed as the first author for the paper. I remember squeezing my head trying to find an interesting project to work on a year ago. Since then, I have been meeting "secretly" with my professor and other collaborators over Skype. Since I am the only student working on the project, I feel a bit deserted from the research group as a whole. I couldn't ask for much help since nobody except for me is interested in proceeding with this project. I have even planned for things to write for the paper during the summer, but, my professor is the one who do all the writing at the end. I guess the ability to write comes with experience(it only takes him a few hours to write 3 pages!). Personally, I like writing but I don't like writing too formal or technical stuffs like academic papers because you couldn't express your feelings well in those formal writings. For me, formal writings are mainly about selling ideas to the readers. I write a blog whenever I couldn't sleep. This is similar to me baking a cake to smell the great aroma of freshly-baked cake whenever I couldn't sleep. I wonder when will be the next time I add a post to my blog again. I hope that I won't abandon writing a blog again.