Photo finish

[trochee]

The deadline for my paper today [er,yesterday] was at 5pm PST.

I finished my last experiment at 4:58, unable to sit down because of the jitters of trying to reach this last result inside the deadline. I did, and I submitted at 5:15pm, jumpy because I was afraid of being rejected.

I couldn't help but feel that this was a Hollywood ending -- the evaluation process was ticking across the screen as the seconds tick down.

I hate this kind of time pressure. Let this be a lesson for me: get the revisions done as soon as possible. You never know when you're going to find a bug. The last day is not a good day for this.

Now I only have one more project and I'm done for the quarter.

Comments

[several-bees.livejournal.com]

Ah, whereas I can't get anything done unless it's the last possible minute.

This worked quite well for undergraduate years. Not bad for honours; fifteen thousand words in a week is by no means unreasonable.

It's turning out to be somewhat less ideal when my work is supposed to be planned out on a three-year timescale.

[thevorak.livejournal.com]

Isn't there something satisfying about finishing just in the nick of time? If I finish something early, I'm usually convinced that there's more I could do to make the project/paper better. So, I tend to procrastinate to the point that will allow me to spend only an amount of time on the project that corresponds to its relative importance to me. Ah, rationalization is a beautiful thing. I like your pic, by the way.