As I wade through the sludge that is my qualifying process, I'm realizing I need to be more proactive about identifying and sharing survival tactics. Writing these papers is a slow and arduous exercise, and I'm more of a quick and painful kind of girl when it comes to composing my work. Having to tame the efficiency drive in me has been difficult enough, but I didn't anticipate the added attack on my confidence and psychological well-being. In any case, rather than griping about academic hoops or my decision to veer down this scholarly road (which I can do, at length, and just about every day), I'd rather put my 'suffering' to work!
Without further, tips for surviving the chinese water torture of qualifying...going to try to do one a day, mainly to remind myself there is fun to be hand even when the work never ends.
Tip number 1. Find a youtube video with an endearing performance by a child under the age of, say, twelve. My pick of the day:
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