Procrastination


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Dammit!!! I'm lit. And, I guess this explains why this is the third new topic I'm starting tonight. Also, when I am in this state I get all philosophical and Mr. Miyagi and shite.

You see, I'm supposed to be riding a paper right now but the single malt has gotten the best of me. I've allocated this whole day to continue on this paper but instead I cleaned both cars, rearranged the garage and volunteered my wife to be her driver on her weekend errands. I shouldn't be drinking while writing this paper and I realized that I just don't want to write this paper!!!! I have been procrastinating on it and I know that I am going to be in trouble for it.

What have you been procrastinating on and why do you think you just can't get your ass going on it?

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I'm in my last semester of engineering school (undergrad at any rate). Procrastination is for when I can enjoy a simple 40-45 hour work week!

I recently tried procrastinating while working on my senior capstone project report - first draft is due Wednesday. Needless to say, my group members and I got our collective shite together and spent about 14 hours each working on our respective parts over the course of a day and a half. Procrastination gave me a sore back and bum!

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Wrote my best papers in college when I was sheet-faced. The alcohol allowed the mind to open up and let the words flow freely. Twice, I had professors ask if I had actually written the papers because they had read my "sober work" and it didn't compare to my alcohol-induced work.

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Wrote my best papers in college when I was sheet-faced. The alcohol allowed the mind to open up and let the words flow freely. Twice, I had professors ask if I had actually written the papers because they had read my "sober work" and it didn't compare to my alcohol-induced work.

What did you tell them?

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I clicked on that Procratinator/Rational Thinker/etc. article, and it just reiterated that old saying I'd heard years ago:

People don't do what they do because they WANT to; they do what they do because they HAVE to

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I found writing papers came quickly and easily for me in college. I found out why in a Seminar in Human Resources class in college. While some will write a little here and there, pull their sources etc. I find I write subconsciously before the deadline, what I am going to say, how I am going to say it and the order. Day one I look for a direction and pull sources I intend to use and skim those sources for ideas. I then give it a few days. Then I just sit down and hand sketch a bubble map if I have not already and input my sources into word to create my works cited page and also create my cover page. I then will set aside a time I just want to think about it and update my ideas on my bubble map. From there I just let my subconscious write the rest and create the path, direction and how I am going to get there. Then usually a day before or even the night before I can whip out 5000 words within a couple hours. Proof read and make corrections, proof again and any other corrections and call it good. Couple guys would get upset that it never seemed to come that easy for them because a few days out they would have trouble putting enough on paper while I had trouble keeping it short. That last day I always had the confidence I was prepared to write and could get it done. So procrastination is not necessarily a bad thing so long as you are you are planning the structure in your mind before hand.

The thing I procrastinate with the worst is going through the old document/mail from the filing cabinet since I like to hold on to everything. I just went through my filing cabinet a couple months ago and finally tossed bank statements out from 1995-2005.

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What did you tell them?

What did you tell them?

I told them the truth. One still didn't believe me, the other said I should do all my work for his class "under the influence". He was sort of the "hippie type" so I'm pretty sure he had probably done some work "under the influence" of something other than alcohol in his day.

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I told them the truth. One still didn't believe me, the other said I should do all my work for his class "under the influence". He was sort of the "hippie type" so I'm pretty sure he had probably done some work "under the influence" of something other than alcohol in his day.

!

Ah, the truth - often disarming to authority!

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When I was in college in San Francisco we were given a take home exam for our Spring Break period. It was meant to take up to two weeks to complete. Well you have to understand when I was in school (in 1979 thru 1981) I had dances to go to; discos to frequent; game rooms to attend; FUN to have. I didn't have time to have college exams mess up my fun time!!! Plus, I was due to catch a plane home to Louisville, Kentucky for the break (that next day), and just refused to have that thing dogging my time or my life. So - I stayed up all night and completed that exam right then and there! It took two bottles of port wine, two packs of No-Doze, two packs of cigarettes...(man, just looking at that concoction of mess I took makes me queasy - now. But at 23 years old and eating everything, doing everything, etc. it was just another - meh!) and I got it done. I saw the beauty of the sun rise outside my dormitory window at 6am. there. And I was free. Completely sober, a little tired, but free of that doggone exam. I returned back to class after our break to see some students in the classroom STILL feverishly working on that exam too! I got a B- as my grade. Mainly because I didn't give a damn (the class was General Semantics in a Communication Arts degree). The classes I liked, I got A's in. Sorry, don't mean to brag. But that's my contribution to this Procrastination subject here. At that time - I didn't have time, I had a deadline to meet.

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Never put off until tomorrow that which you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

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Brain storm. Read the assignment and then start writing a list of everything that comes to mind. Refine that and it becomes an outline. Put some meat on those bones and you're done. Sounds like a case of "senioritis".

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I was going to post to this thread about how I don't think I have a problem with procrastination... but I kept putting it off.

A funny bumper sticker I once saw: Procrastinators Unite! ... tomorrow.

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