ProcrastinationOutlook is a wonderful tool, but not when it keeps reminding you that it is now 96 weeks since you were supposed to finish a report you haven't even started yet.
Just how lazy are you? How long will you put off the essential or the inevitable? What do you fill the time with?
(We're too lazy to write something funny here. You do it.)
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chthonic, Thu 13 Nov 2008, 18:18)
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Very important skills trainingThe word "procrastination" instantly reminds me of this comic: www.phdcomics.com/ (all PhD students should be familiar with it).
The author, Jorge Cham, tours around universities giving a talk about PhD life called "The Power Of Procrastination" and last week he came here. I expected it to have been orgainsed by some students, much to the horror of university staff, but no, it had somehow got classified as a course run by the Skills Training Division! Look here if you don't believe me: www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/skillstraining/courses/jorgechamlecture.html
I had a deadline looming the next day. I did some of the work, went home intending to do more work, then my housemate asked if anyone else wanted to watch Casino Royale with me. Since I'd learnt on a university-approved skills training course that lack of procastination can be fatal* I duly obeyed.
Jorge Cham lied. I failed.
Click "I like this" if you think this actually means I wasn't procrastinating properly and need further training in it rather than I shoulnd't have done it at all.
*Apparently 1 in 200 PhD students attempt suicide from stress and procrastination is the only way to prevent this.
(, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 19:25, 1 reply)
ahthe phorums :-) it was the phd comics that introduced me to b3ta.
but jorge Cham has to be one of the few people in the world who actually makes money by procrastinating, and then gets paid to tell other people how to procrastinate. Got to love him for that :-)
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ascorbate, Fri 14 Nov 2008, 20:08,
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