This comic strip illustrates so well some typical syndrome I have, ha^_^ I usually carry a book or papers with me whereever I go, particularly on weekends. I always think I can read them whenever I have a tiny slice of time. The thought makes me so comfortable with my identity: well that is what a PhD student is supposed to do--keep reading and thinking, and if possible writing actively. Guess what, I've never seriously finished anything I had expected myself to do over a weekend. My Sunday night always wraps up like this: I am eating my dinner while thinking 'I got to finish the reading or writing I promised to do before the weekend'. Well, for your knowledge, I always eat my dinner in front of my computer. Well, since I feel so comfortable surfing the Internet while eating, I cannot resist staying on the Internet even after the dinner. Then I end up keeping blaming myself for lack of willpower to do anything planned ahead at my bedtime. Maybe people always think bigger than they do...
Monday, September 25, 2006
PhD Syndrome
This comic strip illustrates so well some typical syndrome I have, ha^_^ I usually carry a book or papers with me whereever I go, particularly on weekends. I always think I can read them whenever I have a tiny slice of time. The thought makes me so comfortable with my identity: well that is what a PhD student is supposed to do--keep reading and thinking, and if possible writing actively. Guess what, I've never seriously finished anything I had expected myself to do over a weekend. My Sunday night always wraps up like this: I am eating my dinner while thinking 'I got to finish the reading or writing I promised to do before the weekend'. Well, for your knowledge, I always eat my dinner in front of my computer. Well, since I feel so comfortable surfing the Internet while eating, I cannot resist staying on the Internet even after the dinner. Then I end up keeping blaming myself for lack of willpower to do anything planned ahead at my bedtime. Maybe people always think bigger than they do...
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In some way we are all procrastinators and slackers, it's not the exclusive previlige of being a Ph.D :-), that's just our human nature. The difference is that somebody agonize about it while others accept it, or mayby even take advantage of it.
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