Procrastination

[Fit of Rage]

I'm actually procrastinating right now by making this thread.

Seriously, all you college students out there, how do you deal with procrastination? I know I have homework due tomorrow but it's really tough to make myself do it now, when I have the time. I know if I don't I'll be cramming tonight and staying up until 2 in the morning finishing it. Yet it's still difficult to make myself just START.

Anyone have good tips for staying on track?

[sauvignon]

Personally, I gather up whatever I need to do my homework and go somewhere like a library (I assume your college has a one that stays open late) to minimize distraction. And then I picture myself failing out of college and setting all the money that has gone into college on fire (for motivation, picturing that usually gets me off of my ass).

That's just me. I don't like to think of it as procrastination, I think of it as "I work best under pressure".

[Jerome Scuggs]

Personally, I gather up whatever I need to do my homework and go somewhere like a library (I assume your college has a one that stays open late) to minimize distraction. And then I picture myself failing out of college and setting all the money that has gone into college on fire (for motivation, picturing that usually gets me off of my ass).

That's just me. I don't like to think of it as procrastination, I think of it as "I work best under pressure".

uh huh

more like

"hey andy, i'm just calling because i don't feel like doing my work!"

[Scurvy]

I wrote a speech a couple of weeks ago on procrastination ( i wrote it 2:30-ish the night before it was due) and its actually really unhealthy for you. Since then, i haven't changed my habits at all because i figure college students are supposed to be unhealthy. i'm putting off studying by responding to this.

[sauvignon]

uh huh

more like

"hey andy, i'm just calling because i don't feel like doing my work!"

shhhh details

[Epinephrine]

Still trying to remember the last time Jerome posted and didn't mention his girlfriend <_<



As for procrastination, it affects a lotta people. I just try and make myself do things.. it's a mental game.

[MirrorriM]

I usually try to spread big stuff out. Like if I have a paper due, I research it one day (usually at night) 2-3 days before it's due. Then outline paper second day before, and write it day before. I finish roughly around 1 am if I start writing around 9 pm. I find outlining papers really speeds up the writing and editing process. It also helps me cope with less stress because I think "I have all that I want to write outlined, now to just put it in sentences."

I always try to plan things early but when it actually comes to the day to do it I change my mind because hey, I time to do it later.

[Rigor]

Yea im having the same issue at the moment which isn't helpful since school is ending in a month plus all of the testing im gonna have to prepare for. Any more advice would be nice .

[Galleleo]

That word was invented for me.. I always end up doing everything the day before, even when I still have 300 pages of text to read through for an exam, which makes me not read everything and relying on summaries and shit.

Though I do know that when it comes to papers and stuff, I deliver my best work when under pressure, I write better papers if I have to do it the day before then when I start way before..

My scheduling is always way off too, like I have to read something and I am like, ow I'll be done in an hour with this and then I still have time to do this and this etc. Turns out it takes me like 2 hours to do the first thing etc..

[Edify]

Lessee, I have a paper due this Friday, thought I should get it done early but I ended up taking 5 hours to write just one page because I started procrastinating. Started at 10PM. After 2 pages at 3AM I finally started writing consistently to 4.5 pages.. around 6AM.

My conclusion is that I absolutely can't do work if I have my own computer in front of me. But since I had to write a paper the only other solution would be to go to a computer lab. For me, it's "be elsewhere"

[Vykromond]

uh huh

more like

"hey andy, i'm just calling because i don't feel like doing my work!"

Worst Bragging About a >>GIRLFRIEND<< Ever

[Jerome Scuggs]

Still trying to remember the last time Jerome posted and didn't mention his girlfriend <_<



As for procrastination, it affects a lotta people. I just try and make myself do things.. it's a mental game.

http://forums.trenchwars.org/search.php?searchid=557985

on the first page alone i counted 25 posts (24 if you count 'regardless of relationship' as mentioning a girlfriend)

anyways i got to 45 posts in a row not mentioning my girlfriend and i decided that was enough, unless you want to pick up and do the full count!

[Facetious]

Still trying to remember the last time Jerome posted and didn't mention his girlfriend

no kidding.

I sympathize, however, I have no solutions to the problem, I have a test tomorrow, and I know I'll be better off if I study and then go hang out with my buddy who is in town for the weekend as a reward. However, I'm probably going to just sit around and do nothing for a few hours under the pretense that I'm studying, and then go hang out with my buddy.

On one level, I know I'm not going to be able to study for this stupid test for 4 hours straight right before the test, but sitting here, I feel like "eh, I'll just study 4 hours straight tomorrow." If anyone has a solution, that'd be sweet, but I think the solution is "be someone completely unlike myself" and I can't do that nor do I want to. A big problem with school for me is I can get a lot of work done at a job, if there is multitasking to be done, but with school, all you do is sit around by yourself and do one thing and I really suck at that, and as a result, I hate it.

[Liquid Blue]

http://forums.trenchwars.org/search.php?searchid=557985

on the first page alone i counted 25 posts (24 if you count 'regardless of relationship' as mentioning a girlfriend)

anyways i got to 45 posts in a row not mentioning my girlfriend and i decided that was enough, unless you want to pick up and do the full count!

broken link but I feel him

seems like half the time you post in PC it's concerning her or your asian fetish

Squeezer has tapered off with that habit (good thing) but at least in PC, she comes up in your convo's more often than not

[genocidal]

I've been awake for nearly 60 hours now researching, writing a 12 page paper, studying for a final, and taking a final today plus a 6 page paper that was due yesterday. So I guess I'm not the best person to ask about this.

On the other hand, I really enjoy working my ass for long periods of time and then getting trashed or something (which I'll be doing tonight regardless of my sleep-deprived state). I hope I get a job where I have 12 hours of work a day. It makes whiskey taste that much better.