What Happened to my Time
Academic Time When I began my first academic post at a UK university after completing my PhD, I quickly realised how easily time could slip away. Teaching, marking, research, supervision, administrative tasks, and endless emails left me at the end of each week wondering where my effort had gone and how productive I had truly been. Encountering R (with Skepticism) Around that time, I also started learning R. At first, it felt like an impossible challenge, like a daunting first date: intimidating, awkward, weird, etc… R was unlike the languages I was used to, such as C, C++, or Java, with a completely different way of thinking and interactive coding.