(grunts)
(switch clicks)
- It's
7:00 a.m.
Actually,
it's 7:20
because I can never get out of bed on time.
This is the first time I wake up so early
in like the last three months.
It's not even that early, but it's the first day of my PhD.
Let's
do it.
Let's get up.
(piano music)
Why am I so tired?
Every single morning,
I moisturize.
I feel like my face is always dry.
And also, maybe my face is always dry
because I always moisturize. (chuckles)
And recently, I've started to do this thing
where you massage your skin,
and I just started to do it
because it feels good. (chuckles)
Every morning I also put on sunscreen
because it's important
to protect your skin.
I have this nose ring,
maybe you can see it, maybe you can't.
I got it when I was 16.
And then last week when I was unpacking
in this little apartment, I found it again.
And I just thought, try it,
see it fits.
And, turns out, the hole is still in there.
My beauty routine, I would say is pretty minimalistic.
A little bit of concealer.
This one is called the "Un" Cover-Up from
RMS Beauty.
This is what it looks like.
Now, we take the powder.
I think all I'll do is
curl my lashes.
I always use pins to pin it up in this like bun
because then when you release it,
it's like nice and curly and voluminous.
And all I really have to do is fix my bangs.
Greasy.
This is
pretty much it.
(yawns)
(upbeat music)
So I've tripped in trying to make it a habit
to have a glass of water first thing in the morning
before I have my coffee.
So far, it's been going fine.
Every morning I have coffee.
Now, I'm making it with almond milk
because I think I might be lactose intolerant.
And I have my coffee with almond milk.
And then here,
I made chia seeds and oats, also with almond milk.
(jazz music)
So all week, I've been working on my new room.
(throat clears)
So this is my handmade closet.
Then I have my bed here, my little bedside table.
This is a desk
of things that I need to put on shelves,
which are down there, along with books.
And then, this is my working desk.
And I have a mirror.
And this is my view.
Very nice view.
So recently, I've really been into the five-minute journal.
Basically, you're supposed to do it
like three minutes every morning,
and then two minutes every evening.
And I've been able to keep it up.
I did it today.
And I'm going to do it tonight.
And yeah, I really like it.
I just, I don't know if it's been beneficial yet.
And I guess we won't find out for like,
I don't know, all year.
But I like it because it's like meditation.
You reflect on what you're grateful for so,
you can't be doing harm.
So because I have a 40-minute commute in the morning,
I decided that I would take this time
to do my daily meditative reading.
Also, to listen to the Slow German podcast
so I can learn some German.
And then, finally, learn some German vocab.
So, I have
my own
office!
This guy is apparently going to be moving out
in like a month.
And then, my prof is like I'm not going to put
anyone else in the room
'cause you need a lot of space to work.
So, apparently this is going to be,
yeah, this whole place is going to be mine.
I have my own
whiteboard.
And I found out that this is magnetic,
so how exciting is that?
I already took the liberty of setting up my desk.
The previous student left all of these plants here.
Spotify. (chuckles)
I feel like I'm super-organized.
But I can imagine that it won't stay this way.
Okay, I don't know if the light
is actually flashing all the time,
or if it's just my screen on the GoPro.
What time is it?
Quarter to five.
I managed to do an entire day of work.
What kind of work?
I changed my desktop background
on my computer.
Downloaded MATLAB, Office,
RStudio, should probably also download Python.
Had a chat with my professor, picked some classes.
And now, I'm about to go to yoga.
So,
come with me.
And then later, I will need to go to the Apple store
because look at my,
look at my charger.
I fixed it before, but now it completely broke again.
I could definitely reattach this here,
but I figured, you know, now that I'm a working girl,
I might as well just buy a proper
Mac charger.
I also decided to use my commute on the way home from work
as a time to do some leisure reading.
And I always cook for myself.
So tonight,
I decided to cook myself this amazing vegan burger
while watching "Sex Education."
Got back from yoga, and showered.
Did you think I was going to film those parts?
No.
Now I am literally in bed,
after my amazing veggie burger, watching "Sex Education."
Great neck flick show, Netflix show, and eating cookies.
These are the cookies I opt for.
Because they're like,
they don't feel like you're eating a whole cookie,
'cause they're like mostly air.
So it's a lot easier to eat a whole box. (chuckling)
My tea of choice, chamomile.
Feel like vlogging is really boring.
Why are you guys watching this?
I'm now in bed,
and I almost forgot
to do my five-minute journal.
I really like the five-minute journal
because it's just like a way to be grateful
and think about what happened in the day.
I've been trying out this little meditation app
for helping me sleep.
And it's a free app.
So the one I'm using is called Smiling Mind,
and it's from Australia.
So the people all have Australian accents
and it's hilarious and great.
And that's what I'm going to listen to right now.
Meditation, Australia, better at that.
It's 8:00 a.m. (groans)
(piano music)
It just feels really nice to give yourself a little massage.
My go-to breakfast is like plain yogurt with chia seeds.
I feel way more energized when I have this breakfast.
I can actually last
until, hmm,
lunch time.
I feel like I would eventually like to bike to school.
But, 'cause it's actually short,
30 minutes instead of a 40-minute commute.
But I really like being able to do
daily readings of meditation,
listening to podcasts,
reading my book, doing my German homework.
I feel like I get a lot done on the bus,
and it's part of my morning routine.
So, maybe I'll do it a few times,
but right now, someone actually stole
one of the wheels on my bike, so.
So, I got my coffee, my yogurt, and my five-minute journal.
I put on this hat because I was like,
"Oh, it looks so good
"with these wide-legged jeans and my turtleneck."
And I feel like I'm trying so hard
because I guess I have no science to do yet.
But this hat is completely impractical
because it rains every day in Zurich.
So now, I'm going to put on my rain jacket with this hat,
such is life.
As you may or may not know,
I actually dislocated my shoulder a few months ago.
So on this particular day,
I had to go to my physiotherapy appointment.
And straight after that,
I got this amazing view as I went to my next appointment
which was an MRI.
Okay, I'm throwing away way too many
of these cringey peace signs in these videos,
so I'm really sorry about that.
Changing topics, we have a coffee machine in my office,
and it's the best thing ever.
And what did I do in the evening?
I, of course, cooked some linguine
and watched The Good Place
because you know, I finished "Sex Education" by now.
Okay, I'm really happy.
Wait.
This is the album.
I'm happy because I released one of my first videos
from two months, yesterday,
on Monday, called You're Not A Good Engineer.
Wait, You're A Bad Engineer.
I can't believe I even forgot the title.
I've been thinking about this title for so long.
And, I'm getting like really positive comments and feedback.
And I'm really surprised
because I thought people would be really angry with me
for what I said in the video for some reason.
So, thank you, guys, for that.
When I finished physiotherapy,
I went to HR, I got my contract,
so I'm officially an employee, ha ha.
And then I went to the gym.
I went to do supercondi,
and I'm really proud of myself
because I'm trying to get a film shot of what supercondi is,
and insert it right here.
So, it's basically like this insane workout
to crazy dance music.
It's like endurance and body weight.
Yes, the rest of the week I will be better at filming.
Now, I'm about to, you know what I'm about to do, you know.
Don't pretend like you don't know.
Write about things that I'm grateful for.
And then I'm going to do my nighttime meditation.
That's it, health care, baby.
Self, self-care, baby.
Self-care is health care.
Good night.
(gentle music)
What am I doing?
I'm obviously
downloading Python,
and
trying to fix my R
from running.
Everything is broken.
Can't get any of my data to open on a Windows computer
because I have a Mac.
Okay,
it's
quarter to one.
I spent the whole evening doing laundry,
and now I'm tired, and I have to wake up early.
So, good night.
My alarm rang
30, no, 20 minutes ago
at 7:30,
and it's 10 to eight.
So, I have 10 minutes to get ready.
Let's see.
(gentle music)
Okay, it's 8:50,
so I'm 20 minutes later than my goal.
But if you think about it,
I'm like two hours earlier than the last few days,
than the whole week.
So really, who's the loser here?
Not me.
Also, my face is super white
because I just put on sunscreen, and that's it.
I didn't do anything else. (chuckles)
Okay, I didn't do my five-minute journal this morning
because I was a little pressed on time
and I didn't even have five minutes.
Actually, didn't even have coffee,
which is why I came to work to have my coffee.
But I did do my meditation on the bus,
and listened to some podcasts.
Also, this is my outfit today.
I don't know why I keep showing you guys my outfit.
It's almost like,
I don't know what else to film into my first day of a PhD.
Actually, I do know what I could've been filming.
I could've told you guys what I'm supposed to be doing
for the next four years as part of this thesis.
So I'm in the Environmental Engineering department,
and what I'm supposed to be doing
is investigating how suspended sediment
is connected to the landscape.
What are its sources and sinks?
How do temporal events such as rainfall or glacial erosion
affect suspended sediment concentrations?
And these questions,
I'll be able to answer once I build a specific sensor
that is used for this kind of study.
So yeah, first step
is to spend the next year developing this sensor.
But I thought, what I would do
is I would show you how I organize my life.
So how I organize my life
is I have actually a five-minute, no.
So how I organize my life actually
is I have a bullet journal.
So, this is it.
One of my friends once said,
"Oh, I can't have a bullet journal,
"I'm not artistic enough."
And I'm like,
"I literally have no art in my bullet journal
"because I don't have time for that."
So the set up of my bullet journal is really easy.
Every day I just write the day, and I just highlight it.
You don't have to highlight, obviously.
I just do that so I can see better.
So basically, every single day
I put a dot of things I need to do,
and if I get them done, then I cross them off.
If I don't get them done, then I migrate them to the,
like if I don't get them done in these two spreads.
So you can see, like on Tuesday,
I didn't buy my ticket to Trento,
so I haven't crossed it off yet.
But as soon as I go to the next page,
I will migrate it.
So what does migrating look like?
For this, for example, so last Tuesday,
I was supposed to read through the Erasmus application,
and I didn't
do it
at all.
So what I did was I migrated it to the next week.
If something is not important anymore,
"brainstorm YouTube ideas."
I felt like I came up with ideas
so I didn't actually sit down and brainstorm,
then I just cross it off.
If something is really important,
print out a form that I have to print, I star it.
And if I have an appointment,
like I had physio at 9:30 on Tuesday,
I put this little circle.
And then, these are like general things that I have to do
but that I haven't put into my schedule yet.
So I'm like, okay, these are the things that I have to do
but I don't have to do them by like today.
And so, if I get a moment, like today,
I don't have anything to do on Thursday,
then I can take something from this corner and put it here.
And then if I also don't finish these things,
then I will migrate them to the next week.
Now I have to really finish my presentation by tomorrow
because, oh, it's Thursday, yeah,
I have a meeting with my group, my department tomorrow
to like present my project,
so everyone knows what I'm doing.
The reason I had to get here early
is because I have a doctor's appointment and physio at 3:30.
And then I'm going to work out at noon for supercondi.
It's now the weekend,
and I somehow survived the first week of my PhD.
So you see me, here I am on the bus,
I'm actually taking the bus to meet my friends.
Oh, there's another peace sign, of course.
I'm meeting my friends in Trento.
There, we will be organizing
the next Students for Rivers Camp,
which will be happening in Montenegro.
I'll leave a link in the description
if you're interested in attending the camp.
But I guess that's it for this video.
I hope you guys enjoyed it or learned something or,
I don't know, maybe you just turned it on
and then walked away.
Regardless, thank you for watching this video,
and see you next time.