1) The only way you can beat procrastination is to fight fire with fire. Procrastinate hard enough until you’re so sick of wasting time that you’ll eventually get to work.
2) Following up on procrastination, I find that I feel a general sense of accomplishment after finishing minor tasks which really hinders my work progress. For example, I always feel like I deserve a rest despite only finishing 2 paragraphs of text/reading 1 article.
If only there’s a progress bar that updates itself as I go along to indicate how much of work that has actually been completed.
3) It’s amazing what you can accomplish once a rigid deadline has been set. I have never finished more than 5 articles a day prior to the Dec 15 deadline. In the 5 days leading up to Dec 15, I completed about 50-55, averaging approx. 10 a day.
4) Friends in need are friends indeed.
5) Working on the bed never works.
6) Synctoy is an awesome program for backing up/syncing files between different computers
7) Chemistry is actually a pretty fun subject to learn. If only I’d known this during my SPM years.
8) Contrary to what I thought before, it *is* necessary to print out all those articles despite being able to read them from a screen. The ability to highlight/scribble notes next to the blocks of text is very, very useful.
9) I hated it (still do, actually) when I came across articles filled with pointlessly long and over-conjoined sentences using words that were picked from a thesaurus and yet, when I started writing my review paper, I found myself doing the same because doing otherwise somehow made my paper look elementary.
10) Wikipedia is a life-saver. Donated $10. Only $10? Well yeah, that’s $10 more than most of the Malaysian students would have contributed, I’m sure!
11) I love stocking up on books borrowed from the library and not reading them.
12) I’m so sick of Mcdonald’s. Because I tend to work till late or go to work after everyone had had lunch, eating in the car after passing the Mcdonald’s Drive-Thru was the easiest and most efficient way to fill up. (45 mins drive after all)
Hence, Mcdonald’s almost every other day. Ugh, absolutely sick of it.
13) The working habit that took almost 1.5 months to put into routine took only 1.5 days to get rid of. Back to bumming for me.
14) When in the world have sticky notes urging you to “concentrate!” and “work hard, don’t procrastinate!” ever work? They’re like a nagging mother, I tune them out after 5 seconds.
15) Authors who don’t put the title of the articles cited in the references section can fuck right off.
16) There is no 16, actually. That is all.
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