Any student, former student, or close family member of a student knows that it's coming up the most awful, horrible, wretched and sinister time of year: midterm and term paper season. You've hit the half-way mark of the semester, but you're not quite there yet. And you know for a fact that it's going to get one hell of a lot worse before it gets any better.
Usually around this time I can be caught spending hours in the kitchen baking batch after batch of cookies or cupcakes or muffins. When you make these things (or at least the simpler versions of them) you can just turn off your brain and throw in the ingredients. When they come out looking just the way they do in the picture (or in your head), you know you've done something right. It's instant gratification and it's beautiful. It's also the exact opposite of the process that goes into writing, submitting, and waiting for the return of a term paper. Absolutely nothing instant about that!
But then doesn't that beg the question of which is better? The quick, mindless, average, but instant gratification, or the long, tiresome, and grueling process that goes into some gratification that might come later. Of course the better one is the one involving blood, sweat and tears. I will admit though, that I really wish it was the other way around.
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