A:
Yeah, so that's one thing that I really strong believe about grad school, and the difference between the people who finish and the people that just sort of burn or flake out. I don't know if it's a wholly good thing, actually, but you really just need to feel deep down that you are making progress, you know, and that you coming in on Saturday will actually make a difference, or that your paper will be genuinely better if you go through it one more time. You have to feel that, or at least act as if you feel that, if you're going to make it. The people that survive grad school, in my experience at least, are the people that can convince themselves that they're making progress and doing the "right thing"--for some definition of "right thing"--even when it doesn't feel like it at all.
B:
Yeah, man. That's not just grad school, that's life. That's the whole thing.
A:
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B:
Probity and care, brother, probity and care.