I’ve found that the main reason I had trouble with this was stressing myself out. From a logical standpoint the procrastination was illogical because I would waste more time procrastinating than it would take to actually do the task; though I suppose my mind was afraid of failure to some degree and decided it would be easier to just not do it… wrong. Towards the end of the school year I found that one thing really could help me: exercise. It was a good stress reliever, just taking a 30 minute walk every day or so helped me to get started and get stuff done!
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It was worth doing just to see it happen, it was really cool to come back and see what was previously a pitcher of milk be a pitcher of yogurt! That said, my first batch came out really tart; I think I might have disturbed it a bit too much, I used a crock pot as an incubator. The second time I used a beach cooler that I filled with hot water and I left it in for only 4-5 hours. It was less tart, but still not quite what I wanted. I hope to try again some other time; I wonder if the tartness is because I stirred the whey back into the yogurt instead of pouring it off?
To be honest, I kind of thought that the idea of senioritis was a sham when I heard about it. Boy was I wrong! It really started to set in in the last few weeks; you just kind of have to fight through it. Definitely worth it though!
