procrastination!!

[rastasteez]

okay. well i waited until now to start my homework! so much to do! probably an all nighter. i j ust downed 2 cups of coffee so hopefully that will help.
i have to:
write a 7 page term/research paper for english
write a 5 page research paper for psychology
read 200 pages of this book
answer 25 questions about the book
write stuff for a french project
spanish worksheet
15 pages of excerpts of books and reflections
5 freewrites
....oh well i guess its not that much. ill probably watch a movie or something..haha but really! i will.

[guitarboy]

I only have to do a test thing and a lab report

[Kushna Mufeed]

You're fucked. Just give up.

[rastasteez]

hahaha i havent started. well i did start my term paper. its about 1 1/4 pages single spaced so far.

[Kushna Mufeed]

Get off the internet. That'll help bunches.

[rastasteez]

probably. but im on a rolllll now! ive already got 3 pages done!

[guitarboy]

I still just realized I have to do 1 hour worth of work, And it will take at least 4 hours with my procrastination :(

[Eel]

and it's due tomorrow? (Monday, January 5, 2009)

[guitarboy]

No!Today. (Monday, January 5, 2009)

[Kael Seoras]

:shock:

You must not be as bad of a procrastinator as I am. That 7 page paper alone would be having me stressed :P If you finish all that you are very good at all nighters!

[rastasteez]

stilllll doing my hw... im halfway through my french project! thanks to translators! ya ive written 4 pages of that paper so far

[IZ]

My question is, Why are you still in chat with us and not doing you homework?

[rastasteez]

i am doing my hw! i am a good multi tasker

[slayer]

I was going to post here...

But then I procrastinated.

[Unelias]

I took procrastination to whole new level when I was still in school. I did most of my essays in the recess. 15 minutes is quite long time if you write as fast as me. The only downside was that I was always scolded because I had such a handwriting. I didn't had heart to tell them I made them in the recess.

Besides, you get the best results when you act fast and don't start thinking too much.

Speaking of which.. I still haven't took out my garbages. :<

[Amethyst Star]

I always planned to address my procrastination problem, but I just haven't gotten around to it... which isn't a good thing considering I have a few thousand dollars to raise before July. Procrastination and fund-raising don't go together.

Tell us how much you did last night. I'm curious. I became rather adept in college at "homework triage," but couldn't help but succumb to DV chat.

[Abra]

I like college. It's hard to procrastinate here.

"I think I'll procrastinate taking those practice tests... By glancing through the textbook first."

And then I end up taking extra notes on the chapter as I "glance." XD
I haven't had many papers in college (I tested out of the English requirement), but the papers I've had for engineering weren't that hard (they were three pages max. The real work was the project at the end!). I set mini-deadlines, and followed through. Always give yourself a couple days with the finished product so that you can edit it with a clear head.

Lastly, read your paper aloud. You'd be surprised how many grammatical errors you can avoid that way, and you can also find errors in your logic (what needs to be explained better).

[Amethyst Star]

I set mini-deadlines, and followed through. Always give yourself a couple days with the finished product so that you can edit it with a clear head.
So many good intentions, so little time :) I always intended to set deadlines for myself, but I never really put in the effort to meet them. Something about working under pressure and the prospect of imminent failure is a better motivator for someone such as myself.

Also, I always scoffed when we had to make goals in grade school and high school. It wasn't until the last few years I realized just why we went through those exercises.

[Abra]

I just thought of another one of my college "procrastination" techniques. When I didn't want to do more chemistry, I'd take a break and do some calculus. Often, I'll study when I should be doing something else. I finished my chem chapters for the rest of the semester during Thanksgiving break, because I didn't want to fill out some applications that my parents were nagging about.

On more than one occasion, I have been called a nerd. By my professors. :B

So many good intentions, so little time :) I always intended to set deadlines for myself, but I never really put in the effort to meet them. Something about working under pressure and the prospect of imminent failure is a better motivator for someone such as myself.

Also, I always scoffed when we had to make goals in grade school and high school. It wasn't until the last few years I realized just why we went through those exercises.
The high school exercises didn't work, because high school had fewer consequences (and thus, less people saw any gravity in it). In (public) high school, you don't have to pay to go. In most high schools, you aren't graded on a variable curve (usually, 90+ is some form of A, no matter if over 50% of the class got 90+). Not to mention, the assignments given in high school are mostly busy work. In college, the weight of a report/paper is much more vital to your grade. Get a C on a high school paper, and you can make it up by doing well on a test, getting extra credit, or doing the chapter questions/worksheets, or participating more in class.

In high school, I made the mistake of procrastination once. I stayed up until 5:00 AM writing a paper during my freshmen year. I never made that mistake again! But really, I was much less efficient in high school. I'd do assignments during the class before they were due, study for quizzes as they were being passed out, and memorize speeches I had made that morning during passing times. But in high school, I could get away with it. College lectures demand each minute of my attention.

[Kael Seoras]

Something about working under pressure and the prospect of imminent failure is a better motivator for someone such as myself.

That seems to be how it is with me...I think that when you've made a habit of procrastination for years, you learn to work better under the pressure that procrastination causes.

[tkdyo]

I like college. It's hard to procrastinate here.

"I think I'll procrastinate taking those practice tests... By glancing through the textbook first."

And then I end up taking extra notes on the chapter as I "glance." XD
I haven't had many papers in college (I tested out of the English requirement), but the papers I've had for engineering weren't that hard (they were three pages max. The real work was the project at the end!). I set mini-deadlines, and followed through. Always give yourself a couple days with the finished product so that you can edit it with a clear head.

Lastly, read your paper aloud. You'd be surprised how many grammatical errors you can avoid that way, and you can also find errors in your logic (what needs to be explained better).


^^This right here, this is why Im in engineering. I haaaate papers. I would much rather struggle through math and science based tests.

[rastasteez]

well i wrote my paper
did my spanish sheet
french project
read my book..it was actually 300 pages i had left not 200
answered my questions
my free writes

i remembered last minute that one of my papers and my 15 pages thing are not due until later this week :)

i got about 30 minutes-1 hour of sleep both sunday and monday night. im surprisingly not that tired!

[guitarboy]

Wow. I missed two things and made an excuse for the other. I am bone tired right now, and I have to right a report and finish my excused missing homework.

[Xox]

The thought of doing something is always scarier than actually doing it. I'm a huge procrastinator, doesn't help considering I'm a perfectionist as well. But I've set up my "limits." When I hadn't though, eveything was a nightmare.

[Grod]

okay. well i waited until now to start my homework! so much to do! probably an all nighter. i j ust downed 2 cups of coffee so hopefully that will help.
i have to:
write a 7 page term/research paper for english
write a 5 page research paper for psychology
read 200 pages of this book
answer 25 questions about the book
write stuff for a french project
spanish worksheet
15 pages of excerpts of books and reflections
5 freewrites
....oh well i guess its not that much. ill probably watch a movie or something..haha but really! i will.
That's more than I had. I had school starting yesterday too.

I had a five page APUSH paper to do, an AP Chemistry Project, English Project, and another APUSH Project. I finished everything but the paper before Sunday. I convinced myself it would only take me two hours and put it off for the whole day, until 10 PM. It ended up taking me six ;_; Goodbye sleep that day.

[Mysteryhunter]

The most difficult thing about writing is getting yourself into a state of not
not writing.

[rastasteez]

well usually i dont even do my papers at home. usually i do them the period before or during another class or during lunch. so when i actually do them at home its a big thing!! i dont actually mean to wait until the last minute..i just usually forget about them. oh well. i always manage to get my shit done on time!

[ThreeLetterSyndrom]

I don't procrastinate (whatever that may exactly be). I thank my memory for that :D I just sort of 'download' stuff that's in the books and I hear, and then I can usually pull it all up at almost all times ;)

[Unelias]

I don't procrastinate (whatever that may exactly be). I thank my memory for that :D I just sort of 'download' stuff that's in the books and I hear, and then I can usually pull it all up at almost all times ;)

Well that isn't it :P

[Amethyst Star]

I don't procrastinate (whatever that may exactly be). I thank my memory for that :D I just sort of 'download' stuff that's in the books and I hear, and then I can usually pull it all up at almost all times ;)
Procrastination is merely putting off what you're supposed to be doing. I know I should clean the bathroom, but right now I just don't want to. I'm putting it off. I'm procrastinating.

Yeah for 15-letter words :D I love words :D

[Unelias]

Yeah for 15-letter words :D I love words :D

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To the topic : I personally think that I will have a serious conflict with my lazyness and my desired career choice. Since I am now training really hard to work as visual artist yet I dislike being under any big company. As freelancer I gotta kick myself everyday to do the things.

Even now I force me to do drawing every day. That doesn't feel bad at all, since I don't believe much in "inspirations" or whatever, but it is sure hard sometimes.

Not now.. tomorrow I have time, oh damn I want to train, naah I want to eat.. I can train at the evening.