f**cking stars
Toward the beginning of the semester- Jennifer instituted the star system- on a white board are our names- and we get to write up stars for thesis work 1 blue star= 1 hour of lab work and 1 black star=1 hour of writing or analysis. I was always getting blue stars but I never got many black and I only generally got 2-5 per day- But yesterday I got 4.5 black and 1.5 blue stars and now all I want to do is work for stars- I don't want to do other class work- i get no stars- and now- I am being fucked over by the stars. The reasoning is thus- the whole background for my thesis is that extrinsic motivators (e.g. stars for doing work) will decrease intrinsic motivation and quality of work. So, there are two options
1) the stars really are motivating me and therefore my research and all that I have been basing my thesis, my culmination of a Reed education that will live on in the library beyond my existence- is bunk.
2) The overjustification effect is happening and my work will be crappy.
- However, i prefer to interpret that watching those lovely immunization factors (with that hot actor that wants to be a lawyer and talks about making lemons out of lemonade) have buffered the effect and I will in fact experience a boosting effect.
- I believe I may be officially classified as a nerd now.
1) the stars really are motivating me and therefore my research and all that I have been basing my thesis, my culmination of a Reed education that will live on in the library beyond my existence- is bunk.
2) The overjustification effect is happening and my work will be crappy.
- However, i prefer to interpret that watching those lovely immunization factors (with that hot actor that wants to be a lawyer and talks about making lemons out of lemonade) have buffered the effect and I will in fact experience a boosting effect.
- I believe I may be officially classified as a nerd now.