Aeolus: Keeper of the Holidays

‘The holidays’ is one of life’s greatest excuses. From November through January, we are required to do nothing but eat cookies and wait on line at the mall. Not only that, but it is permissible for stress levels at this time to be equivalent to or in excess of regular daily activities. All this for [...]

Overkill: Antidote to procrastination or just too much killing?

Don’t let anybody tell you different, procrastination has its up side. Actually, it has several. One of the benefits to procrastinating on writing your dissertation is that you could end up doing lots of other productive things with your time.
For instance, you may be teaching a class. You may be working a regular job [...]

Administration Procrastination

Let’s face it—there’s more to a grad student’s life than procrastinating on writing a dissertation. There’s a world of opportunity of boring administrative crap to put off doing as well! September is when student status forms need to be filed, student loans need to be expedited, the IRB needs to pandered to, your committee lined [...]