Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Procrastination

I sit here hours before class writing this post. Erasing idea after idea of what to write about. Mentally kicking myself for waiting until the due date to start writing. Starting something only to get preoccupied with other things on the trap that is the internet. I knew yesterday that I needed to start, but here I am. Trying to string together sentences that may sound halfway intelligent. Reading and rereading the small amount of words on the screen. 

This is a dilemma I frequently find myself in. I feel I have above-average intelligence, but I can't seem to grasp the concept completing things in a timely matter. There are the odd assignments I finish days before I need to, however. I am a stubborn person and I'm not one to except much less than perfection. So, I'm not the most pleasant person to be around when I have projects that must be finished. 

I obviously am well aware of my problem, yet I do little to correct it. "Is there really a need?" I'll ask myself. Of course I have a good point. I don't remember the last time I've had a late paper and I've had great grades my whole academic career.  I get so stressed, though. So I believe in the long run it is worth it. From this day forward I will work on my problem with procrastination. So I'll start my pre-calculus homework due tomorrow evening. Or maybe I'll search for ways to temporarily dye my hair. 

5 comments:

  1. I have the exact same problem.. I have to leave my house at about 6:30 to get here on time and I finished my blog post at about 6:00. Also, if you look at my blog post you will see I finish assignments at the last minute as well. I had an assignment for about 2 weeks but ended up writing it the night before.. struggles. Like you, I have never had a problem with this technique (other than stress and lack of sleep) so I don't really have a reason to fix it. We're in this together, though.

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  2. I sympathize with you about procrastination but it helps to me to set a consequence for myself if I don't finish my work.

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  3. Haha that is great, I feel the exact same way.. thinking that I'll start early and get stuff done but then something else pops into my head as I'm working on it and then i get distracted and move on to the next thing and revert myself back to what i was originally trying to get to in the first place... its a struggle.

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  4. I think there are many people that relate to the problem of procrastination and there are differing opinions on the pros and cons.

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  5. It's clear we can all relate to procrastination! Do you think it's because we all have so many things that we HAVE to do in our lives that it makes it hard to start on any of them?

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