The Invasion of Procrastination

Apr 09, 2008 - 01:01 AM PST

I hate deadlines... I hate having deadlines because they kind of tempt me into seeing how long I can put them off. I am one of the millions of people plagued by this terrible condition... procrastination. I am probably the worst procrastinator ever. I will put things off until the very last moment and in the past I've been quite lucky in always doing well. This however will not always be the case. Deadlines in a way are very good; they keep us on top of things that we have to get done and in a way push us to work to get them done. For me though, I hate having someone tell me to do things. I mean at work I'm fine and in school I'm not terrible except when it comes to papers and such. For example, right now it is 3:46am. I have a paper due for a class at 10am. I have three sentences. So far, I have talked to someone for a few hours, watched the entire first season and some of the second season of The Office (just saw it for the first time tonight, very funny show!!), started writing this blog, and just went back and forth between facebook and a few other sites that have nothing to do with my class. Granted I could've started this paper a while ago but I just found out about it or a better word, was reminded about it on Monday. There is just not enough time in the day to get everything that I have to get done done and I guess it really doesn't help that I put it off to the very last moment. It's just that I don't know. Maybe it's that I think essays are a waste of time. I mean, yes, for some people, writing essays are a really good way of getting points across and learning new information. For me though, writing an essay is not really that hard. This essay that has to be 3-5 pages long will be done within an hour (after I finally get started) and then it will probably be a bunch of information that I won't even remember writing in the morning. It's really funny because I will just start to write and then I'll reread it a few days later and wonder how I came up with that and how good the paper is. It's not that I'm a slacker, I really am not a slacker. I work my ass off and just have so many things that I am doing. As of right now I'm taking 19 credits and am in a show. It's a lot of work and takes up a lot of time. The worst part, though, is that each professor has this idea in their head that their class is the only class you take. For this reason they pile a immense workload on their students and force us to work even harder than normal. I think that that is really unfair. Yes, there are some college students that need the push and kick in order to do things but there are people that really work hard and have a lot of things to do. Getting a huge workload from each professor in each of my classes only makes it harder to get all of the work done. Maybe that's why I procrastinate; maybe I procrastinate because of the fact that this is my way of boycotting the workload. Where does that get me though, because I end up writing it anyway so technically my angst never gets across to the professor. I just wish that we weren't judged by grades and all of that because sometimes we get bad grades even if we work hard. I mean just because I procrastinate doesn't mean I don't work to get good grades, the only thing is that I start later than everyone else haha. I don't know, I guess I should go try to bang this paper out because now it's 4am and I have to hand this paper in 6 hours. Guess I'm not gonna be getting much sleep. Wish me luck because looking at these questions I have to answer... I'm thinking I really might need it.