MuffyTheVampyreLayer
05-27-2002, 02:39 AM
Ever since I was kneehigh to a grasshopper my gran told me "You're a smart girl Trudi, but be sure you never rest on your laurels"
Wise advice.
I have a crappy attitude toward work. I leave everything to the last minute and rely on the fact that I can speed read and easily digest resources, and have never had a problem writing up what I have learned... untill this weekend.
I've been working on a HUGE project lately, and the deadline was today. I missed it. Under department policy, anything handed in after the deadline will not be marked. I was 1 and a half hours late on a bloody assignment I've been working on for the last 3 god damn months!
Why? Because I'm a fucking moron. I have done a LOT of research, and covered all the issues thoroughly - but did I write the damn thing up. No. I left that to the last minute. So here I was, knowing all there is to know about the legal status of stillborn children at law and the process by which their organs can be harvested - I consider myself to be quite knowledgable on the subject now. So why did I spend 26 damn hours staring blankly at a screen not knowing what to write????
Fuck.
Admittedly, its partly because the law does not recognise a stillborn baby as a person, so it is hard to argue that it has ANY legal rights, which didn't leave me with much to talk about.
But thats just an excuse - the fact remains that I should have cranked the writing out weeks ago and spent the last few days editting. Instead I vomitted some barely litterate half arsed crap onto my computer failing to show the depth of my research. For the first time in my life, I didn't really have an opinion - I'm wondering if this has something to do with my current lack of interest/enthusiasm in my work? My writing was dull, unoriginal, vague and generalised in places, and if I were marking me I would give me a B- for understanding the theories but failing to apply them with any degree of thought or originality.
In short, it was superficial crap. And I'm either not going to get marked at all for it, or I'm going to get a really crappy mark.
So my lesson for the day is, being clever has got nothing to do with how easily you digest and analyze material, its about having the god damn sense not to rest on your laurels and think that at the critical moment, it will all come easy.
Pity I didn't pick that up sooner. :(
Wise advice.
I have a crappy attitude toward work. I leave everything to the last minute and rely on the fact that I can speed read and easily digest resources, and have never had a problem writing up what I have learned... untill this weekend.
I've been working on a HUGE project lately, and the deadline was today. I missed it. Under department policy, anything handed in after the deadline will not be marked. I was 1 and a half hours late on a bloody assignment I've been working on for the last 3 god damn months!
Why? Because I'm a fucking moron. I have done a LOT of research, and covered all the issues thoroughly - but did I write the damn thing up. No. I left that to the last minute. So here I was, knowing all there is to know about the legal status of stillborn children at law and the process by which their organs can be harvested - I consider myself to be quite knowledgable on the subject now. So why did I spend 26 damn hours staring blankly at a screen not knowing what to write????
Fuck.
Admittedly, its partly because the law does not recognise a stillborn baby as a person, so it is hard to argue that it has ANY legal rights, which didn't leave me with much to talk about.
But thats just an excuse - the fact remains that I should have cranked the writing out weeks ago and spent the last few days editting. Instead I vomitted some barely litterate half arsed crap onto my computer failing to show the depth of my research. For the first time in my life, I didn't really have an opinion - I'm wondering if this has something to do with my current lack of interest/enthusiasm in my work? My writing was dull, unoriginal, vague and generalised in places, and if I were marking me I would give me a B- for understanding the theories but failing to apply them with any degree of thought or originality.
In short, it was superficial crap. And I'm either not going to get marked at all for it, or I'm going to get a really crappy mark.
So my lesson for the day is, being clever has got nothing to do with how easily you digest and analyze material, its about having the god damn sense not to rest on your laurels and think that at the critical moment, it will all come easy.
Pity I didn't pick that up sooner. :(