A horizontal timeline contrasts the idealized daily plan of an academic (breakfast, meetings, experiments) with the messy reality (coffee, procrastination, failed experiments). It highlights the discrepancy between expectations and actual routine.
Creation date
2016-04-13AltText
Timeline comparing a planned vs actual academic day, from breakfast to chaos.Transcript
Typical day of an academic, planned vs reality
Day plan
Healthy breakfast
Catch up on emails
Run a quick experiment
Group meeting
Sketch up a new theory
Set up a second experiment
Throw off a few emails
Home time
ZZZ
Actual day
ZZZ
Coffee
snooze
Procrastination
Hiding from supervisor
Experiment setup
Major coffee spree
Crying over failed experiment
Re-scripting experiment to pieces
Home time
Smashing experiment to pieces
ZZZ
