Reading this story from The Onion took me back to the days of the all-nighter:
The all-nighter was worse for me in grad school than it was in undergrad, I think it was because I had more massive, long papers to write instead of exams and also I think I've gotten worse about procrastinating. I mean the procrastination reached epic levels. My best buddy Claire and I seemed to make each other worse when it came to that, we'd purposely plan to not sleep for like 2 days before a paper was due because we knew neither one of us would be done. It's not as if I didn't work on the paper before then, I did, I'd come to the computer lab every night for 2 weeks, and there we'd sit, surfing the net, taking hour long vending machine/smoke breaks, leaving to go have a beer, socializing with everyone in the graduate school lab, the distractions never ended. During our last semester it got WAY worse. Claire and Nico had a group project to finish and realized wait a minute it just has to be turned in by the end of class, so really now there was 3 hours of class time available to procrastinate. Nico took it to a new level when he told a professor his laptop had crapped out on him and he needed a 24-hour extension and then when I asked him about it he's like yeah I hadn't even started it yet. So there was now another day to waste. Actually extensions just made it worse b/c then the torture was extended another day, whereas if you were forced to stay up for 2 days and just turn it in then it was over. So here's to no more all nighters for the purpose of turning in a business analysis that is composed of total b.s. written over 48 hours with only short naps in between!!
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