Life of a Grad student - Procrastination
I always thought about writing a diary but it never went well, I didn't continue. It may be because I didn't find a good reason for writing these garbage (well sort of!) or my habit of procrastination.
Yeah! I am really good at procrastinating. My creativity kicks off at the very last moment before the deadline. Some people motivates by seeing other people, getting inspiration from nature (or whatever), I motivate when I panic!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgppKHVa7J4guPssVNWbj1qEdACv4WlH1zil0zaBdUtiuD8rbJYTv1p_j6STozsQofxQIWi01397T2kgb75gozoPQSjEskFTbof_75haxD1ytctgk74ieaULSLGZPRm061mFO29IK2StkV-/s640-rw/procrastination1_dayeen.png)
Last spring I took a course on 'Phase transition'. We had a take home exam. Professor gave us a whole week to solve that. Guess what? I didn't touch the exam for five days. On the sixth day, I took a look at the questions for the very first time and realized it wasn't that easy as I thought. I panicked!! I spent the whole day to solve it, whole night to write it down. Well..... not the whole night, I ended up sleeping around 3:30am, even 3 cups of coffee didn't help.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCNGIPuMr1_YCekQYJLT_Wv3zvZ6r4AZjGFqM-vU2kP9nIRRWwFujlbVM3CEkhjSYqzLVgsp-VzwHqPHkS2gElJh9rz5DqMGDaYPcs83e6gygexEvggqveWPQ5oYGzhejYvZBoycDacjd8/s640-rw/procrastination_frdayeen_2.png)
And woke up around 12:30pm. Yaaikss!! I was late. I rushed to the school and submitted whatever I had. After turned in my copy, suddenly realized I made a huge blunder in the calculations but there was nothing I could do. I wish I would've started earlier.
My procrastination level depends on how much things need to be done. The more the workload, the harder I procrastinate. A single line of equation can easily express my situation-
$$\text{My Procrastination level}\propto \text{Stuffs I need to do} $$
Graphically it can be shown as-
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8FKFeCGgC0tcJsPqrbOU54KlNDoAOK4Y8C2DIH8CBrIfU2Z4wTSJv4eJPdhW5g-PrTb3Zt96ew7xxncK6mclQ8-bD9jE_GDoanGyhV9bilQfWdvusjeK78JDmAsRlLdCeGqR8ZVaKGQjL/s640-rw/procrastination_3.png)
(struggle continues...)
Illustration: Fazle R Dayeen
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VacQubVEmnHaEAegiBWjOPcfLzw9k9rg5EfUN70seRDU8PB2mtfY84Q6BxIblWAhxapuVWr4DstqqeVb1xvctWg6g5PQN_JLX9OEGBG0ac4jrPOD1xXUyk-HhFwJY0dcVOlg-mA-2fqc/s320-rw/science_blog_dayeen.jpg)