I've done a lot of things at the last minute. In an earlier post (Too Much Reading) I mentioned some of the assignments I had to write. Four different assignments were due on the same day, and I did all of the writing the night before and the morning of the due date. I'm somewhat embarrassed by my chronic procrastination, but I mention it to prove a point: that I am no amateur when it comes to crunch time.
I've seen how these professors grade. I know that all I have to do is throw some words on the page and I'll likely get an A, or a B at worst. I have complete confidence in my ability to bullshit, and I know approximately how long it takes to pull a paper together.
Yet tonight, with two 5-page papers due tomorrow, I still have the symptoms of stress. I don't understand why that is. I've got plenty of time - one should take no more than 2 hours and I think I can do it tonight if I stay awake. The other might take as long as 4, which means I'll get up at 4am (SOP for paper writing) and have 4 hours in the morning AND a bonus hour and a half between classes. It all fits nicely, yet I'm still "stressed." There's no reason to be!
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If there is one thing that college taught me, that would be procrastination. I, like you, was able to learn to use down time between classes, this lead to me being as lazy as possible at home and working hard during the day. The only problem with that is that I now have a set work schedule that I don't always like to follow. Bad habits have stuck with me.
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