Photo finish
Mar. 18th, 2004 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trocheeThe 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.
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.
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Date: 2004-03-18 06:37 pm (UTC)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.