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> "You can't go play until your homework is finished." Reminds me of Munger's description of the Grandma Rule [1]: you have to eat the carrots before you get t

> "You can't go play until your homework is finished." Reminds me of Munger's description of the Grandma Rule [1]: you have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert. I'm very envious of your skillset, and hope to develop it for myself too. I find it interesting though that you'd put off long papers– why not do those early too? ___ [1] http://old.ycombinator.com/munger.html http://old.ycombinator.com/munger.html

danjoc 10y ago
>I find it interesting though that you'd put off long papers– why not do those early too? The expectation on those was that you would write a long paper about what you learned from the course. Therefore, there was no clearly defined starting line. I also hated writing. Grading always seemed subjective to me. If the teacher liked you, you got high grades. If the teacher didn't like you, you got low grades. It wasn't like math or science. With those subjects, there's a single, provably right answer. The opposite of those 'creative' courses like literature.