How much do you procrastinate with school

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

I have an 8-Page paper due Monday that I've known about for 2 weeks now and I still haven't started it yet. I wanted to start it Thursday and couldn't start at all. I would try to do research and get things going but I would just sit and watch TV or work. I'm beginning to hate myself for this now, but it always seems that I can't do papers until the day of. When it comes to studying for test I do that for a week straight to prepare myself so I do good on them. Just papers or projects I wait til the last minute.

I have done all the research on the paper and have all my sources needed to work on it. I just have to start it and with a family dinner and Giants at night tomorrow I probably wont start it till around 11ish. The good thing is tomorrow I have a 3 hour break between classes to double check my paper and what not.

I have to write about NFL Play60 and how they are trying to tackle obesity and health issues with children so I don't think it will be to hard.

The teacher wants the Opening and Conclusion paragraphs to be a page and 1/3 of a second page for each, so the actual research part isn't that much.

[BurghFan]

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Well, it seems you're doing a good job procrastinating right now Anyway, my problem isn't procrastinating so much as grossly underestimating how long it will take me to do something. Also, sometimes I just can't get focused on what I'm supposed to be doing because my mind just won't shut up.

[Scottdau]

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Guilty as charge. I don't know how I have some many degrees, because I always did my papers at the last moment.

[USF11]

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Yeah I always did things at the last possible minute.

I have heard this actually makes you a better writer, because your are forced use your time much more accurately.

[Cusefan]

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I am notorious at procrastinating. It has helped though, Working under pressure is no problem for me.

[Dog]

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Well, here is a story about procrastinating turning out good:


Last year in public speaking we had to do 4 total speeches. The first one I wrote way in advance and practiced a lot and got a B- on it. The nest 3 however, I literally researched and wrote the night before and got no lower than a B in each of them. So the one I didn't procrastinate for got the lowest grade.

[superjames1992]

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I used to not procrastinate, but as I entered my upper years of high school and now college, I've gotten worse and worse at it. I have a Calculus test tomorrow and haven't studied a lick for it. Granted, I expect to do well as it's not hard stuff, but still. I also have some Chemistry HW due tomorrow.

My main problem is that in college the majority of our HW is done over the computer. That leads to problems like deciding to surf OS instead of doing my work and then suddenly, it's 3 AM and I need to go to bed.

That brings up another problem of mine which is going to bed. Due to my procrastination, in the first month of college I would watch a movie at 12 - 2 AM and then I'd STILL have HW to do, which resulted in me going to bed around 4-5 AM. I have to get up at 8:15-9:15 AM (depending on which day it is), so that doesn't work well. I've started to get better at that, though, and managed to get to bed before 2 AM every day last week finally.

[av7]

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I waited till 2 days to write college papers, anything earlier and my grades would drop. Wrote one paper 2 weeks ahead of schedule and bombed it so I refuse to write any earlier than 2 days. I had an annoying professor who wanted us to write stuff in pieces as if we were in high school still and I pissed her off by doing it my way.

[TracerBullet]

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I love to procrastinate on my papers. Always has help my grade. My junior year of high school I wrote my Junior research paper and outline in a day. Got the highest grade in the class on it. Later that yaer had to do a presentation on the Red Badge of Courage which I had to read on my own time. Finished 2/3 of the book 3 days before my presentation, made the power point the day before it was due to be in and memorized every single fact I needed just based on recognizing a slide. So while eveyone else fumbled over note cards and what facts they needed to say, I went up there without them and was throwing out year numbers and all other kinds of statistics without the help. Did the same thing senior year and got the best grade on our senior paper in my class. Worked last quarter in college too. Hell I didn't even have a subject for my last paper until the saturday before it was due and it got the best grade of any of my papers that I had written that quarter.

I feel like if I try to write it early I'll care less about it. I'll just be doing it to get it out of the way so I can do what I want with my time. Trying to break it up doesn't work either because it just makes it harder to formulate good flowing paragraphs. Doing it all at once really helps make ideas go better together.

[MassNole]

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I always did....thankfully you can get away with it more in law school than college.

[Moses Shuttlesworth]

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Procrastinating would always help me get A's on papers until the last couple years of high school. I felt I was actually becoming dumber that I needed more time to think about what I wanted to write.

That might sound absurd, but I honestly believed it.

[bkfount]

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I often put off huge papers until the last night, and pulled all nighters with some redbulls and music. I ended up focusing hardcore on the task and got great grades on the stuff anyways.

[ASB37]

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I always did....thankfully you can get away with it more in law school than college.

Really? I've been trying to get better about not procrastinating because I plan on attending law school, and I figured if I brought over those bad habits I'd get crucified.

[MassNole]

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Really? I've been trying to get better about not procrastinating because I plan on attending law school, and I figured if I brought over those bad habits I'd get crucified.

In my experience law school was much easier than college.

[Whitesox]

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Yes, I procrastinate. Quite often, actually.