#学英语 day 18
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
FROM Tim Urban
But then, the funniest thing happened. Those first few months?They came and went, and I couldn't quite do stuff. So we had an awesome new revised plan.
但后来,好笑的事情出现了,头几个月时光匆匆而逝,我还没有来得及动工,所以我们明智的调整了计划。
And then --But then those middle months actually went by, and I didn't really write words, and so we were here. And then two months turned into one month, which turned into two weeks.
然后,中间的几个月也过去了,我还是一个字也没有动,眨眼就到了这里,然后两个月变成了一个月,再变成了2周。
And one day I woke up with three days until the deadline, still not having written a word, and so I did the only thing I could:
I wrote 90 pages over 72 hours, pulling not one but two all-nighters -- humans are not supposed to pull two all-nighters -- sprinted across campus, dove in slow motion, and got it in just at the deadline.
一天我醒来,发现离交稿日期只剩3天了,但我还一个字都没写。我别无选择,只能在接下来的72小时里,连续通宵两个晚上赶论文 —— 一般人不应连续通宵两个晚上。90页赶出来后,我飞速冲过校园,像电影中的特写慢镜头一样,恰好在截止日期前的最后一刻交上。
I thought that was the end of everything. But a week later I get a call, and it's the school. And they say, "Is this Tim Urban?" And I say, "Yeah." And they say, "We need to talk about your thesis." And I say, "OK." And they say, "It's the best one we've ever seen." That did not happen.
我以为事情就这么完了,但一周后,我接到一个电话,是学校打来的。他们说:“你是Tim Urban吗?”我说:“是。”他们说:“我们要说一说你的毕业论文。”我说:“好啊。”他们说:“这是我见过最棒的论文。”……当然不可能。
It was a very, very bad thesis. I just wanted to enjoy that one moment when all of you thought, "This guy is amazing!"No, no, it was very, very bad. Anyway, today I'm a writer-blogger guy. I write the blog Wait But Why.
论文非常非常的差劲。我只想享受下你们对我的崇拜,想听你们说:“这老兄太厉害了。”没有,其实写的非常差劲。不管怎样,我现在成为了一个博客写手,经营着“wait but why”这个博客。
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梵烯👑: Very good