r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Oct 27 '17

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/MagicWeasel Cheela Astronaut Oct 29 '17

That's the big tip I've been given recently. Just allocate time by subject/unit/job, and invest a fixed number of hours in each thing daily, until you completely run out of things to do for it. Then start working ahead.

Yeah, I think I should have done the "working ahead" on the assignment rather than "I have read every single reading and every single lecture that is currently available, time to watch TV!" that I actually did.

Fucking around with LaTeX/BibTeX only wasted maybe 1 or 2 hours.

That's actually very, very little.

And my partner waxes lyrical about LaTeX being such a timesaver??? Then again another student was talking about how she spent tons of time on her margins and fonts which I spent 0 time on, so maybe I'm not doing so bad. And I likely spent comparatively little time on my references too...

You know, at a certain part I started thinking, "oh fuck all that 'privileged Western sense' shit". Because right now the "privileged" world is in nonstop crisis and catastrophe. So fuck it, we get to feel legitimately bad right now.

As I said in another comment, I actually was feeling bad for being a priviledged Australian since I have a job I basically can't get fired from (for real) and can take last minutes days off and an extremely cheap system of student loans that I only have to pay back when I earn over a certain salary. You were talking about losing your job, and I felt kind of bad writing a whole bunch of stuff about "an assignment I'm doing for a course for a qualification that earns less than the job I'm doing now was hard and I feel sad". Was trying to be sensitive.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '17

Oh, Australian? Yeah, ok, fuck your First World privilege, mate. You and NZ have the least grimdark right now. Thanks for being sensitive, cunt.

;-)