# Study procrastination - what are your favourite distractions?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 6, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-procrastination-what-are-your-favourite-distractions/315832 "2005-08-06T02:04:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-procrastination-what-are-your-favourite-distractions/315832/21 "2005-08-08T13:24:08Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Isn’t it amazing how creative and long-winded such writings can be? Consider the possibilty of doing some copy/paste operations from your emails and building your thesis from them. That would be at least as coherent as some papers I did at 3 AM before an 8 AM class after spending the weekend staring at the tube or playing Tonk, Fan Tan or Hearts.

It might also end up with my thesis having long accounts of great beer festivals, and absolutely no mathematics in it whatsoever. I can’t see how this is a bad thing. 🙂

But yes, it does always amaze me just how long winded a process this is, and just how imaginative I’m having to be – I’m a scientist, we don’t do imaginative! Well, not in science at any rate. At other things, maybe.

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