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When I was trying to avoid writing my thesis I just played video games
by twic 3y ago
When I was trying to avoid writing my thesis I just played video games
- juujian 3y agoIt's amazing what kind of epic projects a thesis can motivate you to take on (rather than your thesis).
- i-use-nixos-btw 3y agoI balanced a consulting job and my PhD, so thesis time was incredibly productive. When I didn’t want to do one, I’d become very productive on the other, and when I got tired of that, I’d switch and get very productive again.
- eru 3y agoCompare https://structuredprocrastination.com/ https://structuredprocrastination.com/ > ``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
- pezezin 3y agoI learnt to solve the Rubik's cube (actually the Rubik's revenge, the 4x4x4 variant) during the last month of my undergraduate thesis...
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoFor some reason the last “x4” confused me but then I remembered the z-axis. Then it had me thinking how a 4x4x3 Rubik’s Rectangular Cuboid would work. It can’t be turned 90 degrees on one axis. Anyway, for the next time you have a thesis to avoid, maybe.
- twic 3y agoThinking about it, i suppose what i actually did to avoid working on my thesis (and pay the bills) was get a part-time programming job, and then that job became full-time, and i never finished the thesis. So, in a sense, fifteen years later, i am still procrastinating.
- cperciva 3y agoWhen I was trying to avoid working on my thesis I wrote FreeBSD Update and bsdiff.
- ashton314 3y agoThat’s one incredible flex. If only I could have half your productivity while procrastinating.
- cperciva 3y agoTo be fair, I wasn't just procrastinating from writing; I was also dealing with being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. I semi-officially took a retroactive leave of absence for a term (I was a bit behind schedule, mentioned the medical issue as having contributed to delays, and the head of the department said "we could say that you had a leave of absence but I don't want to bother with the paperwork if you don't want to").
- Tainnor 3y agoI did spend at least 1-2 weeks at the beginning of my thesis solely tweaking the typography. ;)
- cperciva 3y agoDoesn't everyone spend a couple weeks figuring out their latex template?
- lgeorget 3y agoAnd "cleaning up the bibliography" as well...
- zimpenfish 3y agoI spent a good couple of weeks writing some Perl and TeX macros to handle noweb forward-references for my 3rd year Uni project report.
- Tainnor 3y agoexcept those who write in Word and then spend the last 2 days before the deadline trying to recover lost footnotes