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The only time I went out last quarter was towards the end of it when I was stressed to a breaking point and decided that margaritas were a Good Idea. I actually saw people I hadn't seen in months. I was very happy by the end of the night. My only other "social" thing is a biweekly D&D game. The rest is me either working, being in school, doing homework, or procrastinating. The last one I'm getting better with, but it happens.
Jimmy the Squid:
I've discovered the best way to put off working on my thesis: Get all my other assignments done.
Productive procrastination: Get on it.
october1983:
Shit guys I have 5 days to decide where to go to do a PhD and I have no fucking clue and it is stressing me the fuck out. Do I want to go to America for a graduate program? It seems kind of crazy because my research is in British history and I already have a Masters, but the program of classes and intense secondary lit reviews seem appealing as hell in the sense that it would undoubtedly make me better at what I do.
But I might have to leave my girlfriend behind for 2 or 3 years if she can't find work/get a visa under her own steam. Which would suck. And I would be half a world away from my friends, academic support network, and the sources for my research. Fuuck.
Tom:
This 10% lit review for Microbiology is almost 4 days late and still 3/5's done. What the fuck, Riley?
LTK:
--- Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 09 Apr 2011, 21:33 ---I've discovered the best way to put off working on my thesis: Get all my other assignments done.
Productive procrastination: Get on it.
--- End quote ---
You may be interested in knowing that this is an extension of the Premarck principle: "A less preferred behavior can be used as an incentive for access to a more preferred behavior." Only in this case, access to a more preferred behavior is instead the avoidance of another less preferred behavior. The human psyche is weird. I catch myself doing this as well. Write a thesis? Gotta clean my room first. It's not procrastinating if you're doing something else productive, right?
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