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Procrastination

Posted on November 12, 2008 at 08:21 AM.

It is 5:14 in the morning, and I am working at a front desk in a residence hall. Until 7:00, we are allowed to use our laptops for music, recreation, homework... anything but illegal music downloads, I suppose. Oh, and let's not forget that today I have an essay and computer architecture project due, and tomorrow I have a major computer science program due as well as a computing and numerical analysis assignment due, all of which I have barely started. Yesterday was a holiday... Veterans Day gave me sufficient time for me to say that I was going to work on it then.

I finished diddly squat yesterday.

Now, I have this work until 7:00, and then I have class from 10:00 until 12:00. I have a two hour break, and then two more classes until 5:00. Ahh, then my day of classes will be over, but I need time to sleep as well. Goodness gracious, I wasn't really offered that time for this day! I have too much stuff to do that I can't even consider dozing off!

Now I'm stressing, like any civil human being would. My heart stops whenever I think of my computer science program. And what do I do to settle the score? I procrastinate even more, much like I am now, typing this blog.

I've even learned that, say for example, if I had homework assigned Monday and due Friday, and I get it done that Monday, not only are you free of stressing over it, it just feels so much more rewarding that you got it done early. When you procrastinate and just squeak by, well, you feel like you just dodged a bullet! An accomplishment, sure... but hardly the bigger picture.

So why do we do it? I don't see how difficult it is for us to just get it done early and have the payoff come after it's finished. Now I can sit down and blog, now I can sleep, now I won't have heart failure just by thinking about it, and now I won't have everything due at the same time and I'm crammed thinking about where to start with any of them (or which to start with).

I know I'm not the only person with these issues, and I know that I'm not the only person that's currently on OS simply to procrastinate this given moment. However, it's bad that this is what it's come to. I need to learn to stop, and if there's a procrastinating class that can help me (hopefully I wouldn't procrastinate in that either), I'd be all for taking it.

Bah, now it's 5:21!

Comments

# 1 Steve_OS @ Nov 12

LOL, welcome to the Club. I am Steve Noah, and I am a procrastinator...

# 2 Blzer @ Nov 12

I honestly think the only way is for someone to stick that barrel right at my head, saying I can't dodge this until it's done. I think that will do it.

Thanks, though. Glad to see someone else is with me on this.

# 3 funky_chicken @ Nov 13

When I was pursuing my degree I was the king of leaving big projects and papers to the last minute. I would know there is a paper due towards the end of the class and wait until the week it is due to start it. It worked for me though and I never got a bad grade on a paper. I am my own worse critic and some papers I wrote I thought were junk and the professor thought they were very well written.

As long as you are getting good marks and doing the work honestly that is the most important thing.