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Putting shit off till the last minute

PFFT.. you can talk your way out of anything in high school.. i love it.

Once for one of my finals i skippede they day they took it.. they were taking it early and i didnt know. And when i asked if i could make it up he said dont worry about it and gave me a 95
good ol chuah
 
What's the best Nation?I am sure everyone knows.I am working on a fourty page journal for a western philsophy class (Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche) I just started and its due tuesday. Not that bad but with all my other finals stressin out but hey i will get it done
 
Well right now I've got an 1800 word assignment due in one hour. Its split in two different parts. Part One Done :)

Part two Im quite struggling with atm.

Tommorow i've got another 1500 wd sa due as well..

Now thats putting shit of till the last minute :S
 
Procastination is like masturbation...its fun until you realize you're fucking yourself.

Sometimes the only way I can motivate myself to do something is to do it last minute. Right before I graduated HS I had a correspondance art class that I put off so long that if I had been one day later turning things in I wouldn't have graduated. Last minute work seems better to me as well for some reason...I just don't give a fuck unitl it has to be done.
 
i had severe last minute cramming syndrome this weekend - yesterday (tuesday) i had 5 hours of a-levels - 2 biology papers and an english (2 essays) paper.
I left everything till the last minute - revised all of biology on sunday, and read wuthering heights in 4 hours on monday.
and you know what, - cramming fucking works. I was pretty damn pleased with those papers, considering that on saturday, when i opened the bio past papers, i near shat myself at how i didn't even understand half of the words.:o
last exam on friday - then summer=D
 
the worst procrastinating episode I've had was a few semesters ago. A few of my classes had essays due as the final exam, and I did what I do best.

I was up at 7:30 AM (8:00 exam that morning), then ran errands til around 2 PM... then I was up til 4 AM studying for a sit-down exam, finished, wrote one essay (10 pages), went to the 8 AM exam, sat in the library from 9:30 (when I finished the exam) until 3:30, turned in all my essays at 4, went back to my dorm, showered, changed, and went to work til 4 AM.

I was up for 45 hours; by the end of it I was seeing things out of the corners of my eyes, hearing music that wasn't playing... like drugs but WAY cheaper!
 
Dazer said:
Well im still in first year, and yes i've put shit of literally till the last minure. More often than not so far instead of doing it the night before its done the day its due in.

Probably break the habit though for second year.
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Lol...
In second year now and Im Still putting shit off..
I have another 10 page essay due tommorow. havent started typing it yet. The shitty thing is its due in the morning so I cant put it off till tommorow. I have to start it sometime tonight :) ...

In other notes..

What do some of you people do to motivate yourself to actually finish something with a due date more than a few days (or even a week) before its due in?
cause I find its very hard. Motivation to find research/sources is easy. But actually starting the planning stage and reading the research and typing it is the hard bit.
 
Dazer said:
Lol...
What do some of you people do to motivate yourself to actually finish something with a due date more than a few days (or even a week) before its due in?
cause I find its very hard. Motivation to find research/sources is easy. But actually starting the planning stage and reading the research and typing it is the hard bit.
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Make yourself a due date well before it's actually due in and get yourself to complete by then. Then you can look over it later, before you turn it in and after some sleep, and patch up anything rough.

The reason procrastination works is because it makes your studious pursuits exciting by making you race against the clock, but there's an even bigger advantage in you forcing yourself to get things done earlier.
 
^ I usually do that. It doesn't always work (I'll get to the point of nearly finishing it, then use that as an excuse to do something else) but I rarely have to rush to get stuff in. I like to have time to read over things before I submit them.

Plus, I'm terrible at cramming. I loathe the thought of having to spend hours at a time chained to the computer/desk. I'd rather just get it over and done with early.
 
Ahh i normally leave things like studying for tests to the last minute (if at all), but when it comes to things like programming assignments its almost impossible to finish them if you start them the night before :(

But definitely agreed that leaving things to the last minute motivates me quite a bit (partly because theres no choice but to do it :p)
 
I used to a horrible procrastinator.

Now with my work load I can't afford to. I find I'm much more relaxed and in an overall better headspace when I tackle things as soon as possible.

The pressure does help me focus, but I can't afford to be behind the 8-ball anymore. It isn't worth the risk anymore.
 
I've decided that it is literally impossible to do anything before it is basically too late. Ive got half a thesis, an entire presentation, and a conference paper to prepare in the next two weeks. = im totally fucked. But you know what, i dont give a fuck, everything will work out in the end, it always does.
 
I went through four years of undergrad starting on assignments early.

Man, did I have it all wrong.
But I've been paying attention to my allegedly "irresponsible" classmates, and now that I'm in grad school I've changed my tune:
I refuse to start on anything until the last possible second. I just refuse to. And you know what? I destroy my classmates in terms of grades. It's like work: you think you have fucking two weeks to type out that letter to the auditor? NO! You have 1.5 hours! Now get started, and it better be perfect!

It's just more realistic to procrastinate. You find out what you can do, and how fast you can do it. And it prepares you for a much faster paced work environment.
 
Well, I have my first accounting test coming up this Thursday. I've tried not putting off studying until the last minute and for the most part I haven't. I realized today you don't put in a full effort into anything though until there is pressure finally put on you.

I probably got more out of my studying today than any of the other days I "went over material."
 
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