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I had a similar experience and judging by other comments it seems pretty common. School is really good for this because it provides both goals and immediate deadlines. You want to graduate and to do that you have to do this assignment for Thursday and that lab for Monday. In engineering school it's particularly bad since you only have to decide on 5 or 10 electives throughout the degree, and there's usually common easy ones a lot of people know about and take. I still struggle with anything that doesn't have a drop-dead date - and it feels like less things in Real Lifeā„¢ have one than in school. But recognizing the problem is a part of the battle.

Heh, I actually dug up the comment I also mentioned this in, written back in February 2011: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2186121




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