JULE >> Good morning everyone! My name is Jule. I'm a second year PhD student studying
computer science. My area of concentration is artificial
intelligence and this is my vlog! So today I'm going to do a day in the life.
It's 8 o'clock in the morning, I just woke up and I'm gonna start getting
ready for the day!
I'm just working from home right now. Just doing some reading, some other prep
work for my research. I'm actually expecting a package later today that I
need to sign for so one cool thing about grad school is you kind of make your own
schedule and in computer science you can
basically work from anywhere so I'll probably stay here do a couple more
hours of work and then head into the office later today.
So what do I actually do day to day in my work? I actually get to work on a
variety of projects which is really great because if I got bored or
frustrated with one of them I always have something else I can work on
instead.
So sorry about that that was actually the package I had to sign for.
One thing I'm currently working on is preparing the results section of a
journal paper. So here I have motivating questions, which you're going to kind of
lead you through the results section and then kind of which experimental results
are going to go within each section. Here I'm working on a new project which uses
causal models to help a robot plan in the real world. I also have classwork
that I'm doing so this is for my human-computer interaction class. We have
a reading assignment. It's about eight pages so I've gone through and
highlighted different parts and now I just have to write a 200 word summary
for tomorrow's class. I'm also working on prelim prep. So prelims are the big exam
at the end of your second year where you have to present original research that
you've done throughout grad school so far. So right now I'm kind of putting
together previous works so these are the different papers that I've read and kind
of what I've learned from them that I can hopefully apply to the project I'm
working on.
So it's time for lunch I have to admit my lunch today is kind of weird. I have
lunch meat, some cheese, and part of a carrot cake.
Hello everyone so I'm running to catch the bus right now. Just waiting for the
bus. It's really close to where I live and it comes about every 20 minutes and
the city bus is actually free for U of M students which is really nice so I'm
going to take about a 7 minute bus ride and then walk about 5 minutes to the
office. So overall a pretty fast commute.
So today is gonna be a pretty easy day. I'm just gonna continue working on my
projects. Other days of the week I have meetings so once a week there's a lab
meeting. I also meet individually with my advisor. And then there's other things
that I do. For example every other week there's the Excel plus bi-weekly social
which is just a way to get together with other women in the department and then
also once a week I go and see my therapist. So I think mental health and
physical health is really important so it's important to make time for that in
your schedule.
So the gym is only about a five minute walk from the office which is really
nice.
I am home for the evening. I just
finished having dinner and now I'm gonna relax. So I think I'll draw a picture on my
iPad, play some ukulele, watch Netflix and then head to bed.
Well that was my day! I'm off to bed now. Thank you for watching.