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Originally Posted by mattsonn  I'm in a very prestigous engineering program right now, but am having a hard time just passing my classes. |
Are the subjects really that incredibly difficult (since it's a prestigious engineering program), or do you just not have the time to study all the time?
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Originally Posted by mattsonn Also, any time I do something, my brain will replay it over and over again. Especially if my unconscious senses that I did something incorrectly. If I did do something wrong, it'll eventually come to me. Or, if I'm anticipating something in the future, my brain will automatically play out every possible scenario that it can think of.
And finally, if I'm faced with a problem that I care about, I'll just obsess over it until ideas come to me.
Do the rest of you have these traits? |
Hmm good question!! Yes, I have the exact same traits, I think. Sometimes I would obsess over something it gets totally ridiculous. I'll give you some really embarrassing examples:
- I'm in general a very safe driver and never drive more than 5 km/h above the posted speed limit. Freeway scares me, as do bad drivers. So whenever I drive and do mistakes, or have some people do mistakes to me, I'd play the scene over and over and over in my head, to make sure next time it won't happen again, to make sure I can handle things better, etc. Sometimes it gets really annoying, because then I'd play these scenes just before sleep, at the bed. And these scenes could be something that happened like, weeks ago..... *sigh*
- I hate yellow lights, because whenever I see them, it always makes me nervous because it can mean "stop" or it can mean "go", and sometimes there's a fine line between the two. The thing is, I know that I must avoid getting rear ended, must avoid colliding with the driver from the opposite side who is about to turn left, who may mistakenly think that I'd stop just because it's yellow, must make sure that I don't screech, especially during winters (in fact, I very often hear screeches done by other drivers, so I guess other people have the same issue as me), etc. I'm sure you drivers know about it.
So what did I do? I coincidentally live on a high condominium, and I could see traffic lights from my livingroom very easily. I took a binocular, and took the average number of seconds of the yellow light duration, and came up with 4 seconds. Then I did all kinds of physical and mathematical calculations, to figure out the save stopping distance, to figure out how much distance (I think I came up with 50 m) that can be covered in 4 seconds (no, actually I reduced it to 3 to accommodate for a safety cushion) by the speed that I usually go at (60 km/h). I then opened Google Earth and measured how much 50 m really is from the stop line (well I am kind of bad at judging distance, and it's really hard to judge how 50 m looks like from the stopping distance, seen from a 20th floor building), etc.............
Or......may be I'm just plain stupid afterall
