Thursday, May 27
Advanced Criminal Law Exam Worries
It's now a mere 14 hours until the start of my final exam, in Advanced Criminal Law. Yet again I have done nowhere near as much revision as I wanted to and should have done. I am thus fretting somewhat about the exam.And yet I find myself still lacking the motivation and inclination to do a few more hours of last-minute revision. The thought of picking up my notes and reading a few more articles does not fill me with rapturous anticipation. I'd rather be doing anything but that!
So once more I find myself online, browsing and not actually doing anything worthwhile. It's always the way. I love the internet dearly, and yet I never actually seem to do anything of any note whilst I'm online.
Either that or I get interested in a completely random subject and end up with about 5 windows open on that topic. I then read masses on it, before forgetting it all and not thinking about it again.
Take the last few minutes, for example. For some reason, I thought of the word "metaphysics", and how I'd read it a few times in various books without knowing what it meant. A quick google for it, and I now know the basics. The problem is that I really didn't actually want to know that, and I should have spent that time doing something more productive, such as revision.
I do this all the time when I'm a little bored. Something grabs my fancy, I follow a link, and then another, and then another, all with no purpose or greater aim. It truly is just plain surfing, browsing with no intent. And it annoys me that I do it so well, and probably too often.
I could be spending this time revising, or reading the unread books on my shelves, or researching something worthwhile online, or hunting for a job, or sorting out my move to Germany this Autumn, or having a social life, or a thousand and one other ways to fill my time.
Damn this internet, damn its entrancing and welcoming effect on me!
