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The Principle of Loving Fate— and How it’s Helping Me With Deadlines
How Nietzsche’s principle is helping me to pass through deadlines and stress.
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Recently, I’ve been in a pinch: I have about two deadlines between the end of this week and the next. Two might not sound much, but each of these deadlines involves a copious amount of paperwork. One of them, more frustratingly, came up only a while ago, meaning I had little time to get it finished.
What’s more, both of them have nightmares of a format, and one of them has to be done in Onedrive — painful!
Furthermore, at the same time, I had to handle some documents for my social security; some parts of my healthcare insurance need verification.
They are the usual consequence of bureaucracy. Formats, proposals, requests for research funds — nothing out of the ordinary for any aspiring science students all around the world. However, the terrible format and many requirements are a consequence of terrible bureaucracy, which plagues third-world countries.
Of course, this is in addition to the usual work college students do. It’s natural — or so I convince myself.
I mean, it’s one thing to be a student and to be pinched by multiple deadlines…
