# Beeminding your way through grad school - actual hours of actual research! **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [December 17, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-your-way-through-grad-school-actual-hours-of-actual-research/2808 "2016-12-17T04:18:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-your-way-through-grad-school-actual-hours-of-actual-research/2808/3 "2016-12-17T04:57:09Z")
> [@Rebuttal to Sinceriously's "Self-Blackmail"](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/rebuttal-to-sinceriouslys-self-blackmail/2784/8): > > as someone who literally just finished grad school (my dissertation was accepted Wednesday) Congratulations! Looks like you and @clarissalittler are both making the point that beeminding grad school will help you find out _sooner_ if it should be aborted. I agree! Although in my case, I guess unusually, I had so much fun in grad school (both what I worked on and the whole lifestyle) that I stretched it out as long as possible. There were super intense periods but I guess I thrive on that. Averaging over the whole 7 years I feel like I had excellent work-life balance then. Also good point that obsessive time-tracking – or more generally, collecting rich data about oneself – is really valuable. A couple other reactions to @clarissalittler’s awesome response: Your 3rd case reminds me of this thread on beeminding with depression: > [@The Post-Election Thread; or, Beeminding Through Depression](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/the-post-election-thread-or-beeminding-through-depression/2687): > > I had a poignant discussion with one of you in support last night, talking about how we felt about the US election. This user called Beeminder their lifeline. That was so heart-warming and heartening that it snapped me out of my own post-election depression. Another one: “Even though I feel terrible things I’ve never felt before in 24 years of life, my Beeminder goal will make me clean my apartment for 12 minutes. That’s good.” And here’s one from years ago (UPDATE: it’s from @bee, qua user-be… And in case you missed it, I wrote about [ego depletion](http://blog.beeminder.com/ego "See also the followup post on What Is Willpower"). [UPDATE: fixed link] --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-your-way-through-grad-school-actual-hours-of-actual-research/2808)._