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Yeah but if the work were bad, she probably would've included that in the criticism, because it's a way better criticism
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I did a pretty similar thing in school. I was playing a LOT of World of Warcraft and I was in raiding guilds with consistent and long raid times. So I'd go out of my way to get as much of my schoolwork done ahead of time as possible. I'd eat in class so I could work on my HW during lunch, I'd get like a week ahead on any work that I was able to such as reading textbook chapters. All so that I could make sure I never missed a raid night.
Unfortunately this kind of all fell apart in senior year of HS. WAAAAAAY too much work to ever keep up, so I had to stop playing.
Unfortunately? I’d call that fortunate. Glad you made it out of WoW alive
I know people like to joke about WoW being addictive/life consuming, but for me being in a raid guild was a genuinely positive social experience that I haven't really had elsewhere. I really miss it even if I think I probably couldn't go back to it now. I do have a handful of friends to hang out with and I cherish my time with them, but it's definitely a different feeling than the comradery of having a shared interest and goal with a group.
I didn't like the grind that came attached to playing though. I've been really hoping someone would make a game that was a similar experience to WoW-style raids as a standalone so I could just do the parts I liked without all that filler. Recently I saw a game "Fellowship" that was kind of doing that, but it's only small groups and while I haven't tried it, from what I've heard the actual encounter design isn't really the thing I'm looking for. (More avoiding the bad stuff than things that require strategy.) It is still in early access, so I'm keeping an eye on it to see if it crosses the finish line as something I might be interested in, but for now my specific niche seems to not exist.
I understand what you mean. Free time in a space where everyone’s efforts are pulled simultaneously toward a certain, similar objective feel momentous and gratifying. It’s the sort of fleeting group identity that I crave when I volunteer. I hope you find something that works for you!
I had something similar in elementary school. There was an assignment given and something like 2 hours to do it. The reward was extra recess time. I saw the exercise knew I could do it quickly so I screwed around for about 1 hour and 50 minutes. The teacher saw this and commented on it. In the last 10 minutes I blasted out the assignment, handing it in when everyone else did. I received a passing grade on the assignment. The teacher stopped me anyway from getting the extra recess time because she didn't like that I spent so little time on the assignment even though I completed it sufficiently.
I stopped trusting teachers for years because of that and so no reason to put in full effort when arbitrarily applied rules would take away the rewards anyway. That didn't mean I didn't put effort into learning, it just didn't really care about scoring well or doing assignments. I'd do well on tests, but had low grades from simply not completing or not turning in homework. Occasionally I'd even do the homework if I was working on grasping the concept being taught, but I didn't see a point of even turning those in many times even though they were complete.
Always did my homework on Friday night. Another girl on the bus would start her homework two periods before school ended and also finished on the bus ride home.
I did that, but on the ride to school.
Why the fuck would you do it any other way? A teacher once called me a minimalist, because I always did the bare minimum to not fail. I still don't see that as a negative comment.
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Me not showing my work in math. Always getting the right answer, but not showing the tedious details.
I once had a teacher write “I have no idea how you got here, but this correct” on a test.
I’d forgotten some trig identity and derived the cosine law and then solved for all the angles with it to get the answer.
It was like that math joke where a mathematician is asked to boil water. The first time he takes the pot off the shelf, fills it with water, then puts it on the stove and boils it.
The next day he’s asked to boil water again. The pot is on the counter with water in it. He dumps the water out, and puts it back on the shelf, as that is a known solved state for boiling water.
So why memorize the formula we were studying when I could just solve more angles and then get the lengths.
This works, until it doesn't. And then you can't go back and find the mistake, and save time by both realizing the error part and not having to redo it all to get there.
I get it, I was bad about that too, but any form of writing improves the understanding of the concepts because it uses a different part of the brain that I think retains better than the one doing the thinking work.
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I've always been like this. I power through all the work (school, chores, etc.) just so I can have the free time to do nothing. My ultimate goal has always been to clear my schedule so I can decide what to do with my time.
I think I overdid it. I retired at 38 years old and I've now spent the last 4 years sitting around my house with all the free time I can imagine.
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