The Great Sleep Heist of 2025
Picture this: You're tired, you've got exactly one hour before your next commitment, and you think "I'll just rest my eyes for 5 minutes."
Three hours later, you wake up like you've been in a coma, completely disoriented, with the crushing realization that you've missed your lectures and your attendance just took a nosedive.
The Paradox of Productive Procrastination
Here's something that baffles me: I can mentally gear up for a 3-hour study session like I'm preparing for battle. I'll get my water bottle, arrange my notes, put on focus music, the whole nine yards.
But ask me to study for 20 minutes during a random gap? My brain immediately files that under "not worth the setup time" and decides to scroll through memes instead.
It's like my focus has a minimum viable duration, and anything below that threshold gets automatically rejected. Short study sessions feel more daunting than long ones, which makes absolutely zero sense but here we are.
The Indian Parent Dilemma
Had a fleeting thought about dropping out today. Then I remembered I have Indian parents, and that conversation would go about as well as trying to convince them that coding at 2 AM is a legitimate career move.
The dropout discussion in an Indian household isn't a conversation—it's a one-way ticket to a lecture series about "wasted potential" and "what will society think."
So here I am, sitting through 8 hours of lectures that feel like they're happening in slow motion, wondering if there's a way to fast-forward through the parts that don't align with what I actually want to do.
Plot Twist: Actual Excitement
Frontend project starts day after tomorrow, and for the first time in weeks, I'm genuinely excited about something academic-adjacent. There's something about building interfaces that doesn't make me want to question my life choices.
The team ideathon? Well, that's turning into a solo adventure because everyone's suddenly busier than world leaders during a crisis. Classic group project energy—big enthusiasm at the start, radio silence when it's time to actually work.
The Social Skills Industrial Complex
Went to a club meeting today for "social skills development." Because apparently, the ability to debug code for hours and explain complex logic doesn't count as communication skills in the traditional sense.
There's this weird assumption that if you're good with computers, you must be bad with humans. Plot twist: explaining why your code broke at 3 AM to a confused teammate requires more social finesse than most casual conversations.
Tomorrow's Mission
Figure out how to hack my brain into thinking 20-minute study sessions are actually 3-hour commitments. Maybe I need to rebrand short study periods as "intensive focus sprints" instead of "quick reviews."
The library awaits, and hopefully, my attention span will show up too.
Top comments (5)
I use AI to help me with context recovery for all kinds of projects. A prompt like "read this code/these notes and summarize what I was doing/thinking about" gets me back in my previous frame of mind, right where I left off! Maybe it can help with your short study sessions too!
I will give this trick a shot
Let me know if it helps and if you come up with any tricks! 😁
Sure thing
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