Hey, someone who didn't completely give up on this...

2007-11-11T23:59:00.000-05:00

Hey, someone who didn't completely give up on this place during the slow months! Good to see your comments, Andrew.

I think you make a good point about sounding like a college student. Actually, it may have been in high school that I first started developing this subconscious ability to estimate the minimum time required to do a project adequately.

Research papers, eh? I'm glad you're excited about them. I'm just as happy to not have anything like that going right now.

Enjoy!

You sound like a college student. And you seem to...

2007-11-09T08:55:00.000-05:00

You sound like a college student. And you seem to have the exact same problem that I do. I've had three papers due in the coming weeks for a while now, and have had most other homework out of the way for the past couple of weeks. I should have been working ahead, thinking up ideas, doing some outlines to test the viability of those ideas, writing drafts, et cetera. But no, not so much. I've done a little, but I really need to do more.

And I am actually very excited to write two of the papers, and even then, I can't easily motivate myself. I've done some work, but I should do more than I've done, to also allow time to try to write other papers, such as those for miscellaneous scholarships, submissions to undergraduate journals, and so forth. But I'll probably end up having just enough time to get the bare minimum done to get reasonable grades in my current classes and nothing else.

A year from now, my checkbook is really going to be wishing I had focused more on getting those scholarships. Unfortunately, how I'll feel a year from now isn't helping motivate me any, just like you described. If either of us solve this problem, I think we should let the other know our secret.

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Hey, someone who didn't completely give up on this...

You sound like a college student. And you seem to...