My life, so far, peaked earlier this year when I used to live in Sendai and then hell broke on 3/11, I had to leave Japan and then a month later my only option was to move to Osaka and it has been downhill ever since. A month ago I moved to Tsukuba, as I was recently accepted as a research student into University of Tsukuba one of the top universities in Japan and my life hit rock bottom. Broke up with my girlfriend of a year and a half, a girl who I cared deeply about, no social connections and no friends in a new city and a boring city at that. A pathetically small town attached to a university and a dozen or so research institutes a far cry from Sendai or Osaka. It almost feels deserted, everything is inconveniently far, there is no subways or trains running within the city. I could go on complaining more about my personal life but my academic life is even at a worse state. With no carrot and stick I don't feel motivated to do anything, I'm not even sure about my research topic to even start doing research which is what I'm supposed to do as a research student before becoming a Master's student next March. These 6 months are supposed to give me a head start but I lack the will and the vision to move forward. I want to do research in Parallel computing but even that is still a too wide of a topic and while I'm supposed to do some reading and research to help me on that, I've got the books and everything else to start I just seem to procrastinate that ended up leading me to depression and demotivation. I wish if I can get my life back on track, I wish the earthquake never happened, I wish I was still in Sendai with my friends, my ex-girlfriend and with the clear vision I had then...
As the sun sets it also rises, now that I hit rock bottom the only way to go is up, build a new social network and get my academic life into shape.
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