Just sent off a paper submission (re-running pdflatex right up until the last minute, as usual). Tomorrow morning: back to grading and my MS thesis with renewed vigor. It’s all about 残心.
[...] Maybe try to identify a high excitement event: a major paper deadline, structured into a 24-style show. Errors in data or experimental method discovered hours or days before the deadline, frantic re-runs of experiments, re-plotting of graphs, adviser re-writes of major sections of text, and running pdflatex up until the last minute. Unfortunately, there’s not a really satisfying conclusion there. You don’t find out what happens for a few months, and by then it’s just Season 2: do the same thing all over to address all the reviewer comments and submit the camera-ready. [...]
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[...] Maybe try to identify a high excitement event: a major paper deadline, structured into a 24-style show. Errors in data or experimental method discovered hours or days before the deadline, frantic re-runs of experiments, re-plotting of graphs, adviser re-writes of major sections of text, and running pdflatex up until the last minute. Unfortunately, there’s not a really satisfying conclusion there. You don’t find out what happens for a few months, and by then it’s just Season 2: do the same thing all over to address all the reviewer comments and submit the camera-ready. [...]
comment posted at 8:12 am on 12 May 2006