Research is one of those things that feels like “work” for me. My least favourite part of grad school. I just want to dive in and touch stuff and prototype. I find myself often jumping to the prototype phase as a way to justify skipping research. Maybe I’ll review a few related libraries and some blogs and such.

It’s definitely something I’d like to work on while not losing the practicality of not being caught in research hell like some peers have in the past. Their end products ended up late and no better than my third iteration of the same thing.

There’s a balance I’m still fighting to find.