As usual, there's been a few months since my last posts. As one of my fall resolutions is to be a much more frequent blogger, both here and over at The Bubble Chamber , you'll be hearing much more about me and the endless quest for productivity in grad school. I want to share my summer success story. While on vacation in Maine at the beginning of the summer, I came across The Complete Idiot's Guide to Overcoming Procrastination at Barnes & Noble. It was a peculiar reading choice during the summer break, but since I was trying to put off the research paper I was purportedly working on at the time, I worked my way through. This book is not a cakewalk, despite its title. Michelle Tullier makes you take a long, hard look at your habits and gets you to face the things motivating your procrastination head-on. She deals with the kinds of excuses we make to ourselves when we put things off to do later; things in our surroundings that we use as excuses to avoid work (I didn...
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