As you all can tell, the majority of OSG are truly enjoying their summers... Some of us thought it would be a good idea to put off writing our theses until the summer after graduation so that Finals Week and graduation and job searching and last hurrah's wouldn't get in the way. Sounds like a great idea, right?

WRONG!!!!!!! When you walk that stage at graduation, all motivation, at least of an academic nature, is completely shot for the next three months! Don't even think about planning an enjoyable post-grad summer spent leisurely churning out pages of your thesis in between responding to job postings and weekend visits to family and friends. It just doesn't work!

If you're as foolish as some of us, you will be spending countless hours trying to rekindle that spark of academic achievement that you know is still somewhere inside of you...it just may take a while to muster the motivation to find it (i.e. it's so much more fun blogging and surfing the web...). You may just end up with about a week left to finish your thesis, while you still have yet to complete an entire first-draft...

One might ask how one deals with such an overwhelming problem. Well, personally, when I start to get down on myself, I like to sing a "happy" little song:



Well, that's it for now. It's time for Chris Seal to waddle back to his dark cubby and spend countless hours coding data on conflict and Schengen treaty membership, while also expanding upon the theory of return migration...whatever that means!

Tune in next time, when sanity will have become a dream of the past, and at which point, I will have slightly changed my tune: