Now that's how the conservation of enery will still be satisfied: If we apparently destroy energy it is actually converted to rotational energy of Newton in his grave
As you, and many others here, I'm at university. I'm studying physics (which is not regraded for it's ease of understanding), so I usally have a lot of work to do.
As I "Did not invent work" as we say in Germany, i.e. I rather prefer coding, reading/. and such, I had your problem at the beginning as well. What helped me was and still is
Try to work hours, don't get tasks done I.e. I found out you easily can work a whole day and still be depressed that there is so much left to do. This easily leads to the point where you do not even start working, because the remaining pile seems so incredibly huge. To tackle this, I set up sort of a timetable. I committed myself to work 4 - 5 timeshifts, each about 1.5 hours long with half an hour break in between (for making coffe, doing laundry, getting rid of the coffee again,...). That makes up easy little steps.
If you loose motivation it's like: "oh it's only 20 minutes to the next break, I'll get them done. And at the end of the day you have something to be proud of, if you've been disciplined enough to keep to your plan.
It will be about 7 pm then, so there is enough time left to do things you like and you do not have to feel guilty.
It worked for me, so try it. After a year or so you get used to it that much, that it just feels natural and you can dare to make some deviations without loosing the diciplin completely again.
As a side effect you get your work done and if there realy should be a timeslice with all the work completed (It occured to me only once or twice in the last three years:)) you still can read those background stuff you felt would be advatagous long ago to get that extra good feeling.
Well that's my 0.002 EUR
Yes, do it. I did not and I don't feel like it was a good idea. I Think everyone is quite fed up with all this school and learning things when he finishes school. Moreover you probably concentrated on getting good exams and stuff and after that there is not much energy left.
Another point is: This is probably your best moment in life and your last chance to take a year off. Once you are in college you most likely have to work quite hard and/or earn some money so even the holidays wont permit too expensive travelling. And after college, well that's when your life as a worker begins.
So, take a year off. Maybe get a nice job (maybe some computer stuff or the like you like anyway) and the make a big tour through different countries. Maybe you can even get your parents into supporting you (At last you are broadening your view and you will learn a lot of usefull (social) skills).
Ah, and about forgetting all you learned. You did not learn such an awfull lot in school (sorry for that). Once you are in college your amount of learned things per time will at least be fivefold. Anyway you wont be able to use much from school after a few weeks of college (It is a totaly different wrt seperating bachelor and master by a few years.
Well, have a nice time
I dunno if how they did it for MacOS but on the other platforms the used as much of the unerlaying system as possible, only reinventing things that aren't provided natively (At least they say so in the docs)
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Now that's how the conservation of enery will still be satisfied: If we apparently destroy energy it is actually converted to rotational energy of Newton in his grave
As I "Did not invent work" as we say in Germany, i.e. I rather prefer coding, reading /. and such, I had your problem at the beginning as well. What helped me was and still is
Try to work hours, don't get tasks done I.e. I found out you easily can work a whole day and still be depressed that there is so much left to do. This easily leads to the point where you do not even start working, because the remaining pile seems so incredibly huge. To tackle this, I set up sort of a timetable. I committed myself to work 4 - 5 timeshifts, each about 1.5 hours long with half an hour break in between (for making coffe, doing laundry, getting rid of the coffee again, ...). That makes up easy little steps.
If you loose motivation it's like: "oh it's only 20 minutes to the next break, I'll get them done. And at the end of the day you have something to be proud of, if you've been disciplined enough to keep to your plan.
It will be about 7 pm then, so there is enough time left to do things you like and you do not have to feel guilty.
It worked for me, so try it. After a year or so you get used to it that much, that it just feels natural and you can dare to make some deviations without loosing the diciplin completely again.
As a side effect you get your work done and if there realy should be a timeslice with all the work completed (It occured to me only once or twice in the last three years :)) you still can read those background stuff you felt would be advatagous long ago to get that extra good feeling.
Well that's my 0.002 EUR
Yes, do it. I did not and I don't feel like it was a good idea. I Think everyone is quite fed up with all this school and learning things when he finishes school. Moreover you probably concentrated on getting good exams and stuff and after that there is not much energy left. Another point is: This is probably your best moment in life and your last chance to take a year off. Once you are in college you most likely have to work quite hard and/or earn some money so even the holidays wont permit too expensive travelling. And after college, well that's when your life as a worker begins. So, take a year off. Maybe get a nice job (maybe some computer stuff or the like you like anyway) and the make a big tour through different countries. Maybe you can even get your parents into supporting you (At last you are broadening your view and you will learn a lot of usefull (social) skills). Ah, and about forgetting all you learned. You did not learn such an awfull lot in school (sorry for that). Once you are in college your amount of learned things per time will at least be fivefold. Anyway you wont be able to use much from school after a few weeks of college (It is a totaly different wrt seperating bachelor and master by a few years. Well, have a nice time
I dunno if how they did it for MacOS but on the other platforms the used as much of the unerlaying system as possible, only reinventing things that aren't provided natively (At least they say so in the docs)