The perverse incentives of academia
6 years ago
October 10, 2008
In which we take a short break from writing jail
... to report that we still don't like writing. We admit to procrastinating on the task due to its difficulty and impossibility to get a perfect result. We suspect that we are still not good enough at inserting enough big white fluffy cloud words, and we hate the need to disclose our multiple personalities in a big royal we. We are definitely not looking forward to the locked up lovely weekend filled with an intense fight against procrastination writing.
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Good luck. We hope that you are very productive this week-end.
Jennie et. al. 2008
It makes me feel so much better to know that other people don't like writing either. It helps me know that I'm not doomed to be a PhD technician (at least not just because writing isn't my favorite task). I like having written something, but doing it sucks.
Good luck. You'll be so proud when you're done.
Jennie et. al. - thanks ;)
EGF - I too like to look at a perfectly type-set finished product with beautiful figures and well-formed paragraphs and sections, but getting there is tough.
Good luck! I hate writing anything, so I think when I first start writing my paper I think I will need a legion of whip bearers standing over my shoulder. And maybe a cookie after each successful page...
Ok, maybe after each paragraph.
Hermitage - how about a cookie for each time you rewrite each paragraph? (By the time I get closer to done, none of my paragraphs look anything like the first draft).
Hope it was a productive weekend!
UnReaction - thanks, I did! Got a little more to go...
During my thesis writing I rewarded myself with one square of chocolate per completed paragraph. You can tell which parts I found thte hardest, because they have the shortest paragraphs...
Mmm, chocolate. I bet that would be a good incentive for me, too :)
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