Salami

You may ask why the hell I'm soon going to start an engineering degree.

Curiously enough, I've asked one of my muslim friends for a copy of the Qu'ran for Christmas. I think it's important to learn about the worldview of millions of people, and there is some fascinating history behind it. Sadly, I've never had the chance to hear anything much about it.

Back to the question of motivation, we've just had the last lesson of the year and were given a gigantic paper to do for the last two hours. Everyone else slipped out after five minutes, and I'd usually have followed, but for some reason I stayed and finished the damn thing on my own.
When trying to work out why I did that, I thought that possibly getting into the right mood for work can help enormously: I know it sounds horrible, but working as soon as lessons are over is a lot easier than coming back to it later at night, since you are still in "work mode", as Tony Hancock might say.