<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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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
