# School is a pain

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-is-a-pain/486522>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 19, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-is-a-pain/486522 "2009-02-19T06:57:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![purple\_haze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@purple\_haze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purple_haze)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/school-is-a-pain/486522/21 "2009-02-20T18:14:34Z")

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> [@Meyer6](#):
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> Ah, school. Such a love-hate relationship.
> 
> I have to take a Statistics class this semester. It’s awful, I don’t think I get it at all. I always go to class and pay attention, but some days the professor may as well be speaking Greek for all the sense it makes.
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> Also, I have a lot of research to do and I am suffering from a bad bout of procrastination. This seems to hit me every year at some point and is just deadly - whole weeks can go by without me even cracking a book. Important stuff sits there, taunting me, while I check my email or watch TV or read the dope or stare out the window. I’ve done all the list making and splitting tasks into small chunks and yadda yadda yadda that those self-help type books recommend but nothing helps, I just have to wait for it to lift by itself.
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> Sigh.  
> ETA: I wish I was going to Colombia! No Fair!

Well, you just saved me some time. I could have written the _exact same post._ The only difference is that I’m done with Statistics, including the stupid capstone paper. Last year I went to school for the summer term, but this time I’m taking it off. That will be nice.

Associate degree just about done. Bachelor degree, I’m looking at you!

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