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Studying for a future you're pretending you can control.
means To make deliberate advance preparations for something, especially studying or getting ready ahead of time.
from A clipped form of 'preparation' (Latin praeparare — 'prae' meaning before, 'parare' meaning to make ready), shortened in the 19th century. It quickly colonized school slang on both sides of the Atlantic: 'prep school,' 'prep time,' 'to prep for an exam' — the short word doing the long word's anxious work.
- origin
- short for preparatory, as in school for the already-advantaged
- illusion
- confuses being busy with being ready
- peak form
- cramming disguised as a weeks-long plan
- paradox
- the more you prep, the more you find to fear