Procrastinatiiiiing.

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

So I've missed class for two days because I've been sick. The doctors couldn't diagnose me, so they gave me a cough suppressant and a mask to wear while in public. Great.

I had a project due on Monday that I couldn't do because I was sick over the weekend. I return tomorrow morning to class to turn it in and I'm still not done.

Instead, I'm having a House marathon and lurking around here on CS.

Why do I do this to myself?

[sarasquirrel]

i procrastinate on everything too, i have 2 finals on thursday...ill be studying late wednesday night, even though i could have today haha...i suck

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

It just makes life harder, but for some reason I just can't learn from my mistakes. Is it a neurological disorder or something?

[MannersMakethMan]

Why do I do this to myself?

Answers on a postcard please... I've got an exam at 9:30 tomorrow morning, and where am I? Good old CS.

[BookstoreEscapee]

It just makes life harder,

No, no, no...it makes life more exciting!!

[dalesys]

It just makes life harder...

Life's not worth living unless we're up to our ears in alligators...




Occasionally!

[Gerrinson]

In a way, procrastination makes life harder.

But, on the other hand, I work best under pressure. Well, internal mental pressure, not so much the external pressure.

I think my real problem is that I have too many ideas and procrastinating until last minute allows me to push aside the extra junk and focus solely on what needs to be done.

Case in point - my very best ever research paper:

I had 1 1/2 months to work on it. Did I work on it in the first month? No. Two weeks before it was due I went to the library and checked out the books that I needed.

The night before it was due, I spent 15 minutes flipping through books and choosing quotes.

The next morning, less than 4 hours before it was due, I went to the computer lab at the college to begin writing my paper. In 3 hours, I finished 9 1/2 pages of paper. With bibliography. I then tried to print, only to have Wordperfect (good ol' Win 3.1 Wordperfect) crash on me. That's when I realized I hadn't saved it since page 5. In 1/2 an hour, I rewrote the last 4 1/2 pages and bibliography.

When all was said and done, I got a 98 out of 100 on it. The 2 points off were for three spelling mistakes that weren't caught because I forgot to run spellcheck before printing the final copy. Oops.

Oh, and my teacher wrote some lovely comments about how thoughtful and well written the paper was and how it clearly reflected a great deal of time and effort on my part.

If he only knew the truth.

[SG15Z]

lol, I'm not alone. I should be doing laundry so I have some clean clothes for work in the morning. And where am I? CS and FB of course! I'll probably end up doing it at 2 in the morning and not getting to sleep till 3 like usual, even though I have to be up at 9. I guess we like torturing ourselves.

[BookstoreEscapee]

The next morning, less than 4 hours before it was due, I went to the computer lab at the college to begin writing my paper. In 3 hours, I finished 9 1/2 pages of paper. With bibliography. I then tried to print, only to have Wordperfect (good ol' Win 3.1 Wordperfect) crash on me. That's when I realized I hadn't saved it since page 5. In 1/2 an hour, I rewrote the last 4 1/2 pages and bibliography.

I had one of those, once. It was a shorter paper, only a few pages, and I didn't procrastinate quite so badly, but I was finishing it up the night before it was due. I had just my concluding paragraph to write, and had saved it diligently as I went, but I hadn't printed any drafts of it. And that was when my computer decided to eat its own hard drive.

I called the prof in the morning, told her what happened, and got an extension, then spent the afternoon after my classes were done sitting on my bed, rewriting the whole thing longhand, and later that night I typed it up on my roommate's computer. Of course, the second version was better .

(That was when I truly learned why they called it "The Helpless Desk"...)