[ SECRET POST #2338 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2338 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Saturday Night Live]


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03.
[Homestuck]


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04.
[The Dark Knight trilogy]


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05.
[Star Trek]


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06.
[Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert]


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07.
[Neil Gaiman/Amanda Palmer]


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08.
[Late Night Talk Shows]


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09.
[Fruits Basket]


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10.
[Defiance]


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11.
[Phoenix Legend]


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12.
[Kim Possible]


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13.
[Rupert Graves]


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14.
[Hashirama, from Naruto]


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15.
[XXXholic]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 047 secrets from Secret Submission Post #334.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[silmaril]

OP, from the other side of the PhD tunnel: It won't become "all real."

You will pay for that, mostly in time: your dissertation will stretch a bit, and you won't be out in four/five/whatever the minimum in your department is. But it won't become "all real," because it can't.

Bear with me, because the next bit is a little tricky.

In setting the work-life balance in (relatively) open-ended things like dissertation research, I've found that we tend to gravitate to what we can maintain. Sure, you can force it for a week or two before deadline and do nothing but work. But try to maintain that far past a deadline, or go with self-imposed too-tight deadlines all the time---Your mood will then deteriorate, forced concentration on one or two things only will take its toll, and you will start not doing good work.

Some things you can then repeat and fix relatively fast. But, say, in my own work, if I'd made a mistake in integrated circuit layout... that was a four-to-six-month turnaround time at its worst.

You'll instinctively know this, actually, so you will find a balance. It happens naturally.

And then you may start feeling guilty about it, which also happens to a lot of graduate students. In which case, remember the above, and you'll be fine.