The teacher called me over this morning and we talked for a long time, and I even broke my mouse in the process. I ended up going to Xinjiekou in the afternoon to get it fixed just to clear my head, and by the time I made it there and back, it was already evening.

1. I need to redo experiments for my main project; there’s so much stuff to catch up on if I want to graduate on time. The teacher thinks the reason I'm in this situation is that I don't communicate with her and ended up doing a lot of useless work. I believe the work I did was something I wouldn't be able to avoid later anyway, so I figured I might as well get it done now and at least see what the results are. In the end, we reached a consensus: stop expanding the scope, put on hold the work that hasn't started yet, and just focus on fixing the current gaps. This way, my workload will be reduced, and I agreed to it.

2. The teacher set up a Feishu group; from now on, anything that comes up goes straight on there to avoid any lack of communication.

3. The main project won't be finished in time. We didn't talk about author ranking, but I definitely have to bring that up later, and it has to be as sole first author. This also kills my plan to use this paper to apply for a PhD this year. It's just an objective fact; the fact is that it won't get done.

4. I didn't take a break last summer, so the teacher is planning to give me 4 weeks off to go home to write my thesis and let me catch my breath.

5. I currently want to try out bioinformatics. If I can independently publish a paper in bioinformatics within a year, I'll consider switching fields. If not, it just proves I’m a piece of shit with no talent for it and should stop leaning in that direction.

5. I haven't left campus in a long time. It suddenly reminded me of a saying: everyone always says their own work is important, but then again, whose work in this world isn't important?