Movie Monday: Battle of the Vid Apps

As I progress through my Ph.D., I keep my 📱iPhone📱 on ✈️Airplane Mode📳 more frequently, so I don’t 📴call, text or use wifi.

• D is for: DISPO * Dissertation * hopeful Doctor🎓
• D DON’Ts are for: Disturbances * Distractions🚫

While I ✨concentrate, I still play background 👂🏽noise, but I don’t always rely on my online📻 🎧music or 🎬videos. Sometimes I also stray away from my own played-out 💽collection…

My DVDs🎥 and digital videos📹 to the rescue! 👌🏽

During my study sessions📚 or school road 🚘trips or any foreseeable 🚀flights, I’d prefer to play a movie straight from my phone without needing an online signal, like some video application programs promise.

Not all of them have worked 🔇offline, though…

M-GO (e.g., 💃🏻Selena🎤)

• Pros: can play online
• Cons: loads⏳ and returns to 🏡home🏠 screen without playing at all offline 👎

 Vimeo (e.g., Everything Before Us)

• Pros: sometimes plays online and offline
• Cons: load delays or no-plays from some computer browsers (I have 🌎Internet🌎 🌏Explorer, Mozilla🔥 🐺Firefox, Google Chrome, 🍎Apple🍏 Safari) and phone☎️ app 😁

Amazon Instant Video (e.g., 👙Toned Up)

• Pros: always plays = 😅happy camper⛺️ (hey, maybe I even can watch while camping without wireless connection!)
• Cons: none whatsoever … Sharp, beautiful motion pictures on the screen every single time ~ no loading shown!  👏🏽

After several attempts for the first two apps, I’m still not satisfied with them. Fortunately, Amazon‘s app has consistently come to not disappoint! 👊🏽

Study Saturday: Stats Woes

Welcome to my 📚work💻 station!

Crunching numbers on these 💻devices📱 with my 📔manual📙 on hand👋🏽

I now can empathize with my speech🎤 students who consider public speaking to be 😅nerve-racking, while I encourage them to step outside of their comfort zones!

For yours truly, my anxiety😱 lies with 📉stats.

Earlier this week following my final excursion, I spent my Manic Monday at this corner dealing with my raw 📊data before meeting with my 🎓dissertation📜 chair the following day.

• This tutorial helped 📈

Here’s the trick to overcome such challenges:

Add something with which you’re comfortable into the 🔬mix so it’s an easier pill💊 to swallow!

{Just like a re-run of Tia & Tamera that I caught today when new mom Tia introduced her son to new solid food ~ he loved butternut squash while she tried to get him to warm up to peas}

Now that I’ve gotten the hang of it more after going through it in my grad classes plus one-on-one tutorials, I’m actually enjoying it on both my

• laptop

and

• desktop with the much larger screen!

Bearing in mind all of the above, my PhD program has been the hardest undertaking that I’ve ever experienced, and not simply because I initially anticipated stats with dread …

During my doc degree, I’ve encountered many emotional highs and lows:

Experiences	Emotions
Preparing for my final and comprehensive exams plus my statistics	Anxiety, Nervousness
Passing my final and comprehensive exams	Accomplishment, Achievement
Failing my first stats course and having to retake (never let this happen before)	Disappointment, Failure
Getting kicked out of my first study group (never gave anyone reason to want to before)	Rejection
Celebrating my luminary and candidacy convocations	Blessed, Bliss, Happiness
Passing my concept proposal and proposal defense plus my IRB request	Relief
Working hard on my dissertation paper and data	Dedication, Devotion, ♥Love♥

Yet at this point, I still wouldn’t ever trade it for the world!