JGWeissman comments on Eight Short Studies On Excuses - Less Wrong

210 Post author: Yvain 20 April 2010 11:01PM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 21 April 2010 06:51:48PM 2 points [-]

I hadn't started it when the deadline arrived and decided the penalty rate was too steep to bother starting when the deadline passed.

Perhaps making students like you feel that it is worthwhile getting started once you have already procrastinated contributes to the success of this strategy.

Comment author: mattnewport 22 April 2010 12:42:27AM 42 points [-]

Perhaps, but my problem was more that I mistook a theoretical interest in physics for an interest in theoretical physics.

Comment author: BarbaraB 02 July 2012 09:32:58AM 1 point [-]

It sounds like You were the case, where it was not worth to waiwe the penalty. They should have sticked to their rules. Out of interest, did You ever write and turn in that physics project ?