{"id":161,"date":"2007-04-09T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2020-04-30T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T08:09:02","slug":"first-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/first-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"First thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>You know you&#8217;re a final year student when the last thing you think about before going to sleep is your dissertation. It&#8217;s also the first thing you wake up thinking of and to make matters worse you notice that a friend has joined a group called &#8220;my dissertation is driving me crazy, just to make you feel that much better.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m doing particularly badly, after all, I&#8217;ve done all the research I wanted to do in relation to the topic I&#8217;m writing about and I am progressing. I just wish it wasn&#8217;t so important in relation to all the other work I&#8217;ve done. It&#8217;s over in a month. That&#8217;s when I can finally relax and enjoy the real world again.<\/p>\n<p>How many university students a year write dissertations? At least thirty to fourty thousand I&#8217;d guess. How many enjoy it, probably quite a few. I enjoy it but it would be nicer if the purpose was to create more content for a website than to be assessed by a lecturer. I&#8217;m going to work on adding at least another 2000 words today, get it to five thousand words today. That&#8217;d mean I&#8217;m halfway to completion and it will be a really nice feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s time to stop procrastinating and do something more productive. No holidays for anyone so close to the dissertation deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>You know you&#8217;re a final year student when the last thing you think about before going to sleep is your dissertation. It&#8217;s also the first thing you wake up thinking of and to make matters worse you notice that a friend has joined a group called &#8220;my dissertation is driving me crazy, just to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[1897,2161,2601,2532,1754,2600],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-university","tag-dissertation","tag-media-studies","tag-procrastinating","tag-progress","tag-studies","tag-word-goal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}