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*watches as procrastination from her own dissertation*

“as time goes on, priorities change, and expectations get lower” no truer words has ever, ever been said

I love that it seems no student ever rereads their works after submitting. I have written like 9 term papers, send them my profs, put them in the file with all my other papers and never opened it again. It is the pandoras box of my suffering and bad writing.

5:33 the AUDACITY he has to say that sunday is the day of rest, while he still has to write an entire dissertation 😭 i am screaming

From - "imagine if this gets published" To- "Imagine if i finish it in time" OMG LITERALLY ME!!!

When he said, "I'm dumb. I'm stupid. I'm a fool.", my procrastinating self felt that.

This is exactly the way I work too: plan, plan, overplan, re-plan, then procrastinate (but sort of still working it out and figuring things out in my mind), procrastinate, panic, start because there's no more time, doing a good chunk and feeling somewhat confident, hating it, starting again and realizing this is going to be harder than anticipated, work, work, be weirdly focused and extremely dedicated, more work...almost procrastinate again to finish it up...AND DONE!

”It’s a marathon not a sprint” This is probably the literal definition if a sprint

"I had been referring to two characters, who's names are Jim and George, as Fred and George... as in... the WEASLEY TWINS" when I tell you I CHOKED

You're not a student if you don't leave your assignments till it's due date EDIT: jeez how's this got so many likes

How did I just watch a random guy writting his dissertation for 20 mins instead of writing my own....

I finished my dissertation yesterday, after writing it in less than 10 days, I can relate so much to this mindset hahaha The weirdest part was towards the end; the thesis was due at 12pm, and I had progressed so well that I was so chilled out the night before and got over-confident. Then, half-way through the night when I realised that putting the words into the TEMPLATE takes freakin ages - I lost all sense of chill. Fast forward to 11.50am the next day after an all-nighter and I still needed to fix one paragraph, but just submitted it regardless. BUT HOLD ON because I then realised that, because I'm in my home country (due to COVID), I had an EXTRA HOUR from the time difference. not gonna lie, that time difference literally saved my ass :D sorry this was a long story but basically thank the lord for time difference

i wrote 70% of my year-long graduate degree thesis in two weeks. we eat stress for breakfast.

This comment section with all the other fellow idiots and clowns is literally so uplifting. I always thought I am the only person on the planet like this. 😂

Bruh, i feel you. I did mine one day before the deadline, hell of a ride

Jack. I don‘t know you, and I probably won‘t ever get the chance to thank you. But I just want to say: you have single-handedly saved my life. I had 9 months to write my dissertation. I started off great with writing interviews, conducting them, transcribing them, going through the data and analysing it, plotting graphs etc. But I just could not bring myself to start writing. So I put it off. For 8 months and 2.5 weeks. And then it hit me: I have 1.5 weeks left, 0 literature read, and 0 words written. And I cried. I thought about hiring a ghostwriter (I could never), re-taking my thesis year, or just straight up sinking into the earth and dying. But then I openend KZfaq instead and typed „writing your thesis in one week“, and I found the absolute masterpiece that is this video. I saved it to my phone and every time I wanted to cry or give up I watched it and it gave me hope that I could finish this. And I did. I just got my grade and I can‘t believe it, I actually got a good grade, placing in the top 20% of students. I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. No other person in my life was able to help me as much as you did with this video. Truly a gem. Thank you, thank you, thank you from Switzerland. And if you‘re reading this and have a thesis to finish: you can do it. But it‘s really, really hard. And you must absolutely push through and remember that a mediocre thesis is better than an unfinished one. Don‘t waste time trying to get it perfect! You‘ve got this!!! In 1.5 weeks I read 25 papers and wrote my whole thesis, start to finish, 15‘000 words. I did not sleep the last 40hours before the submission because I had to format everything, go through the sources, write the abstract in both English and German, get everything printed etc. But I submitted it, 2hours before deadline, and I have now successfully graduated!!

'to conclude, i'm a clown' i could not relate more.

The one dislike is his professor

A year ago I thought it was just stupid to leave a whole diss last minute. A year later here I am, watching this video again and procrastinating as if I didn't have a dissertation due in a month. I'm a clown, I know.

When I was doing my dissertation I read through it multiple times. I eventually resorted to putting it through google translate (English), so I could hear it read to me and that helped me SO MUCH

at least you didn't have to print and bind it on top of this stress! I remember being in a billy b printer queue and chatting to a random guy behind me who casually said his diss was due in 30 mins, I almost pushed him in front of me to print his first I was so stressed for that stranger

I have so many deadlines and exams during this week, so this will be highly motivational.

*thesis due in a week* jack : " sunday is rest day !"

'it is april, and im a fool' AND I AM DED 😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭

"Wait... is it Thursday today? [checks phone] [relieved sigh] OH MY GOD, IT'S WEDNESDAY. [DEEP EXHALE]: *JESUS* this was ME today i swear

This was slightly anxiety-inducing for me and I am *graduated* lmao

I started writing my dissertation conclusion with 20 minutes left to go. I was already on an all-nighter having worked on my two other chapters lol. The clock was ticking, my conclusion was going nowhere, I was under the required word limit but I had to take action. With five minutes left to go, I said alright, half of the page of a conclusion is enough, I need to focus on cleaning things up. Check for dead white spaces, quickly zoom out to see how it looks, what needs tweaking that kind of stuff, all the while feverishly looking at the bottom right cornered time. Come one, come on, come on, send it as it is already! My mind and increasingly fast-beating heart were suggesting. But no, I still have time to double-check. I entered the final minute, I knew it would come to this. I could only submit by 11:59:59...At 11:59:00 I started mentally counting but with a beat faster so I am still ahead of the clock. Okay, let's upload this bad boy (I had the upload page ready I only needed to select the file and submit it). I select the pdf, hit submit - SESSION TIMED OUT, PLEASE LOGIN AGAIN. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU**K, I WAS STILL COUNTING! 11:59:30 in my head, the heart was beating like crazy, my hands instantly lost 80% of their speediness, everything was moving in slow motion, I was still counting. I logged back in, no mistake could be made. I click on browse, it opens my desktop, I have no clue where the latest saved document went, there is no time for browsing. CTRL+TAB instantly and I open the window containing my document. I click and hold it, CTRL+TAB back to the upload page, I release it on the upload area, check the 'I agree' box and hit SUBMIT. The circular 'please wait' thingy is moving. BOOM...... Thank you for your submission, TIme - 11:59:59. I was the happiest man alive lol.

When I was *basically writing my dissertation in a week* all I did was rewatch this video over and over to feel better about my situation and gain motivation to finish and work hard bc I just wanted it over it with so badly. Thanks Jack:)

This video is literally MADE FOR ME. I have to finish a 15-page essay TODAY until midnight. 🙊 Edit: it is now 00:03am . I have submitted my essay at 23:54pm. 😂😂 I feel so relieved.

" I was behind on being behind " A true king 👏👏

Me watching this one year ago: I will never let this happen to me.. Me now: writing my dissertation one week before the deadline 🤦🏻‍♀️

his eyes being bigger with his little glasses is the cutest thing i've ever seen

Jack with his glasses on 👁👁

Jack: 'I'm social distancing from that library!' Me: *realising this was me way before quarantine...*

Am I coming back to this video each time I desperately have to finish a paper and want to motivate myself? Yes. Do I learn from it? Absolutely not😭😭😭

I wrote my dissertation (150 pages) in 11 days. I was in the exact position as you, done all the research, was very organized, had all the thoughts in my head and just needed to put everything on paper. It was chaotic and stressful but also kind do weirdly fun and satisfying?! I relate so much with this video!! :) Very fun!

jack edwards being a wreck for 17 minutes and 15 seconds ✌🏻

1st year - Wow I'm going to get a 1st its going to be amazing 2nd year - Okay well a 2:1 is fine 3rd year - Well if a pass it will be a miracle

This literally popped up in my recommendations while I’m writing three 2000 word essays in one night 👍🏻

"When i first starting researching for my dissertation i was like imagine if it get published, now i'm like, imagine if i finish this" hahahah I can relate so much hahah first i was like "yeah imagine if i get a distinction for it, now i'm like, imagine if i passed it" hahahah

moral of the story: do not try this at home

i did exactly the same thing as you with my dissertation lmao. i planned it all out, wrote 3k words of the initial literature review, and then when i spoke to my tutor in january (it was due in april) he basically said i needed to redo the question. so i try to figure out what i'm doing next. what work can i actually keep from what i've done so far? i do my focus group research in february. it all feels like it's going according to plan. i have time, don't i? cut to two weeks before the due date, i'm down to 1k/10k words, and i still have another 3k assignment due in before the dissertation (both of which i have not begun). it got to the final week. 7 days left. i slept for 6 hours during that entire time. i am not lying. i would have a 30-45 minute nap at 6am or there abouts. it was, quite frankly, *awful* . but i tell you what. after the final all nighter in the library? on the due date? i submitted it online at 08:45am, and then i took that motherfucker to Staples to get it printed at 09:30am. and whilst it was printing, i went to mcdonalds across the road. and that sausage and egg mcmuffin was the best mcmuffin i have ever had in my entire life. it tasted of freedom. it tasted of the sweet sweet sleep that i knew i would have later that day. it tasted of 10k words of utter bullshit but i somehow got 67% anyway and a First in my overall degree. worth it? i'll let you decide.

One of the most relieving feeling is when you think it’s a day later than it actually is, and then you realize, you just gained an entire day!

"I am dumb, I am stupid, I'm a fool" I had the same epiphany so many times this school year

Because I would have wanted this advice as an undergrad: please use a reference software like Zotero! You will be able to cite as you go, they do the bibliography for you, and you don't have to spend hours going back putting them in! If you write a lot of papers it's so worth it!

I feel this video so much! I was doing research for my bachelor thesis for soo long that at some point I was soo afraid to actually write words. It became so stressful that I had to get professional help, because I became sooo anxious of this task. At the end I finished the whole thesis in 2 Weeks and also received a great grade! But it was an awfully stressful time in my life.

So you mean a week is NOT a usual amount of time that is supposed to be spent on writing a thesis?🤭

ooof this brought back MEMORIES. being awake for 72 hours straight to finish three different final essays that i had left ALL until the last moment was a damn trip to say the least, and im sure took at least a week off of my life, but we're here, we're queer, and we're starting our career.

okay jack here is the thing (fellow absolute idiot):my final year law dissertation (30 PAGES!?) is due on monday. We were given the option to not hand it in an re do it in the summer, so I had given up at this point (was at a similar stage as you in my work), because it counts toward my final grade (and I did not want to screw myself over). But u have given me the motivation to not toss all my work in the trash so I will give it a proper try.

“On tonight’s programme ladies and gentleman we have something that’s gonna make you SICK” ... (Covid-19 has entered the chat)

KZfaq recommended this to me at the exact time where I only have a week left until my dissertation deadline and I still have TONS to write. And here I am watching this instead of writing...

The separate document is soooo relatable. I always have an empty document open next to my document to write pieces of text in there instead of my actual paper. It makes no sense but it feels way better.

“I’m behind on being behind” I felt that! me after I didn’t start planning my disso at the begging of feb 😅😅😅😩😩😩

I just can’t get over how big Jack’s eyes look when he’s wearing his glasses. He looks like a cartoon character (but in a good way!)

I literally just did this to myself. Wrote my 85 page thesis in 8 hellish days (25,000-ish words). There was three day window in there where I never saw the Sun and genuinely could not remember what day it was after the third day of writing. What a ride!

sat here watching this like m dissertation isn't due in 2 days...........

Am I the only person who is here watching but should be doing my own thesis instead? 😂

“Me submitting my dissertation” *throws garbage in trash can* 🤣

hi jack, i just wanna tell you that i've watched this video of yours a few months before my dissertation deadline, just so to scare and warn myself to not go through the same process as you did. a few months later, a week before my dissertation deadline, i changed up my entire thesis statement and wrote it entirely from scratch. clearly i was a clown (still am) and it was hell. but anyways, thanks for the video, i graduated, somehow.

I realised literally 30 minutes ago that my dissertation proposal is due on Tuesday (six days!) and I hadn't made a plan or started writing yet so this... very motivational/applicable.

The whole idea of being in this situation makes me want to have an anxiety attack

3:07 THIS THIS THIS

I'm less than 10 pages away from finishing my final thesis and I can tell y'all this: planning is a damn trap when you don't have enough time to begin with. Planning has this kind of addictive side to it, if you spend an entire day just planning what to do instead of actually doing shit at the end you feel kind of satisfied and accomplished, only to realize (probably at night, more frequently the day after) that you wasted an entire day worth of work doing nothing, because what's even the point of planning things in such detail when you only have a week to do everything. A general outline is necessary of course, but getting lost in useless details is also pretty easy (especially if you're a lazy perfectionist lol). What am I doing here instead of finishing my thesis, you might ask. Fair point. I'll go back to it 👌

We would never get sick of you complaining Edward, that’s what we all do 😂 I have an exam in two weeks and I desperately needed some motivation - came as soon KZfaq alarmed me ;) Sending love from Korea ❤️

Dissertation is due in a week Me: 😱 Jack: spends time making a KZfaq video

This is an Eve Cornwell level of chaotic crunch time study vlog, and I'm LIVING for it.

Jack without glasses: o_o Jack with glasses O_O

When you said “I find it so hard to work at home” I felt that 😔

the fact I am waiting for this video even though I am in lower sixth and it has no relevance to me lol

what uni also taught me during the years when you have a dissertation of 12000 words : these 12000 words don't need to be good, they just need to be done

Currently in my final year and this video lives rent-free in my head. If jack can write he's dissertation in a week, I'm going to get through mine in two months

"It's kinda funny...actually nothing about this is funny" Me narrating my life

I did the same and it was the worst week of my life

"it's a marathon not a sprint" Dude you're literally in the last 100 meters of the London marathon were you are meant to be sprinting

one thing i learned from this video is even if i dont feel like writing yet, it’s important to plan out everything as soon as possible so your future self can be less stressed

I had to write a 25.000 word dissertation in my final year! Took me 1.5 years of reading and research, but it was worth it! I wrote about Harry Potter trough the perspective of the french discourse analysis.

This is my favourite video, I have watched it multiple times lol. My undergrad thesis is due in less than two months and this is my primary source of motivation

Two videos were listed on my recommendations: this one, and another. "I WROTE MY FINAL YEAR DISSERTATION IN THE WEEK BEFORE THE DEADLINE" "oxford university rejected my masters application" Thanks for the laugh, KZfaq.

"Even my dog has left me." Is a mood 🙃

Instead of writing my own essay I watch you writing your essay. I’m helpless

You have no idea how satisfying it was to watch you in this situation. As if I wasn't there myself last year..

Bro i was sooo stressed about this.... Like, just to put this into perspective, when I wrote my dissertation: 7 days before my deadline, I was DONE with it, and was just using the rest of the week to edit, and I still submitted it an hour before deadline. Like I don't understand how you did this omg.

um so i've got a final essay due in less than 48 hours and i haven't even finished half of it, so i'm bingeing your and vee's essay crisis videos for some encouragement (yes instead of actually writing my essay) so thanks for keeping it real, king. here's to all the ceos of finishing important assignments at the last minute 🤡

“To conclude.. I’m a clown” 😂😂

I know this feeling very well - somehow there is nothing worse. The self doubt, the hope, the despair, the seemingly insurmountable task, the fear, the joy, the hallucinations from lack of sleep... I’ve been writing these things for decades and I still leave them to the last minute 😂

watching this while crying bc i'm a clown who has 11 days to write my dissertation and two other essays..... it's nice to know i'm not the only one at least,,

After finishing my dissertation research, I realised my study was really weak, so I changed the title and had to complete all new research and write my dissertation in 3 weeks. Many late nights and early starts later, I did it. It was the most stressful period of my life, I came out with 75% and received a first class degree :)

Let me just leave this here. My dissertation is due in exactly 3 days. It's a 4,000 word disso, and I've done 2,000. I am so blank rn and dunno what to write again. Edit: I got my Dissertation grade and scored a first class in it (70). So glad! The late nights defo paid!

This is both making me cackle and giving me PTSD to me doing the exact same thing 2 years ago. Left my Politics dissertation until the night before, I break out in hives whenever I think about it. Well done on finishing Jack!

i keep coming back to this video (especially in reflecting on completing my own dissertation) and i related to your struggle so much... i guess this keeps me reassured that i ain't the only one who wrote their diss in the one week before the deadline.

My dissertation is due 22nd of May. I have zero research done. I have now decided to write about Wittgenstein's ethics, that's my new topic (shout out to philosophy students). 8000 words in 15 stressful days. I am going to buckle down and work. Wish me goodluck guys, I am going to need it. I will update on 22nd of May.

A friend of mine actually handed in an entire term paper that referred to Edward Gibbon as John Gibbon lmao

Just got my PhD, this past semester I defended my dissertation and I'm graduating this week. I'm having an ANXIETY ATTACK with the thought of having to do months of writing all over again and the thought of getting it done A WEEK BEFORE is making me lose my MIND. GURL.

i come back here and binge all videos related to finishing degree every exam season. this has to be my 3rd time watching this!

I needed this video. I was panicking about the 3 coursework pieces i have due in 4-5 weeks which add up to about 9000 words, so knowing I have 3000 words less to do and 4 weeks more gives me so much more hope. Also im a super lazy proof-reader so i think the printing it out and making notes thing will help me alot.

hey, Jack! I'm writing my MA thesis in Philosophy and Literature. I'm from Lisbon, Portugal. I cannot wait to watch this video, it will help me out...I hope it gives me some motivation!, kisses (;

5:04 that's actually how we were taught to write in our Academic Writing module. Make a first draft and let it sit for a while. Then use the ideas from it to write a second draft completely from scratch. And then make a third draft by heavily editting the second draft. But you can only do this if you have enough time of course. Which is never.

LAST YEAR I saw this and thought not to end up like Jack but now that's where I've exactly ended up. My MA English Dissertation in a week. I'm the biggest clown.

My master's dissertation must be 30k words long... currently sitting at 28k after 4 months of writing and have 3 days left to finish... stressful AF