Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Secret to Motivation

Now that we're in the middle of exam season, let me share my secrets to having the motivation to finish your last-minute papers and to study for your many exams. As we know, professors at this day and age like to squeeze everything at the end of the semester because that's when you have finally managed to access most of the knowledge you will obtain in your course. So in order to have enough motivation and not go: "OH GOD TOO MUCH I GIVE UP!" here are my personal tips.

A common tip is to reward yourself for completing something, my advice? Deny yourself access to the many essentials to life, such as food and sleep until you have completed it. Seeing as you require such things to live, instead of postponing finishing your essay, you will want to finish it ASAP so you can eat dinner. If you were to just reward yourself, you would probably end up postponing the REWARD as well, unless the reward is something extremely extravagant, like a new yacht. It is also a quick way to lose weight!

They say having a nice and quiet, clean, relaxed atmosphere around you would give you more of a mood to study! Well, my tip is to go into an empty room. NOTHING at all, not even carpet. I think cleaning out your tool shed or garage will do. Light a candle stick and do your work as if you were living in the nineteenth century. Hell, go ahead and put on a corset while you're at it. Doing homework would take your mind off the pain from having your organs excruciatingly compressed. Even the guys, yes.

And finally, watch a Canucks vs. Wild game. It's so boring it makes doing homework fun. This has been me, who hasn't been to bed since Tuesday.

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