Donuts Taught Me How to Stop Studying

When I was a senior in high school, my AP Economics teacher brought a dozen donuts to school one day in order to demonstrate the concept of marginal utility and how it generally decreases as more units are consumed/obtained; the tiny girl eating the donuts really enjoyed the first few donuts, but the benefits she felt she was receiving started decreasing dramatically as more donuts were consumed--which was evident by the look on her face!

Little did my econ teacher know that in college I would apply such a principle to studying in college! I spent three and a half hours studying for my financial accounting final that's tomorrow morning and, as time went on, my enjoyment--which was already low to begin with--continued to decrease and the last two chapters I was to go over I reviewed quite sloppily. My logic in stopping was that my marginal benefit in continuing to study must have been decreasing and, therefore, if I continued to spend time studying, it would make a smaller difference on my test score than the difference that was made during the first chunks of time I spent studying.

We'll just pretend that makes sense and that economic principles are applicable to real life situations and that I have feasibly adequate justifications in not studying any longer.

Now if that didn't dissuade you from reading the rest of this blog than I'm quite sure nothing will!

Unless you're a guy and you're offended when I say that I'm sick of people like you :)

But okay, I'll be honest: so it really isn't the male species fault for much of my tiresome evocations. I could try to go into some detailed explanation about my complaint, but I'll just leave fact as fact.

So I came up with and wrote down eight things that truly encompass the type of person I should always aspire and desire to be:

I am honest.
I am clean.
I am chaste.
I am strong.
I choose principles over passions.
I am ambitious.
I have honor and integrity.
I don't live my life in fear.
I am humble.

I'm definitely still working on some of those, but I figured that, if I have something written out that I tell myself every day that helps me stay focused, then I'll be able to better become what I can, should and want to become. Of course, those words are vain without action; but action is so much more likely to come about when thoughts become more tangible with words and documentation--it's almost like a promise.

I could write more, but I'm in a cynically sarcastic mood and writing usually doesn't make me feel better during those moments--unless it's symbolic or poetry or a mixture of the two, which I don't have time for, unfortunately. I'll write more another time.