I am struggling with how to spend focused time on my own research, in the midst of all this work and classes. I know the pieces I’m learning in the classes will relate, but don’t know how yet. And it feels like the fact that I’m not focusing on my own reading and research at all this semester (haven’t had to, in fact, since my classes have their own self-contained assignments for the most part) means that I’m less inclined to make the connections with the kinds of questions I really care about.
What are those questions? This is perhaps the part of my development that is crying for attention. What do I care about now, and what do I want to study related to that?