I am terrible with procrastination, and I would think the majority of college students are not much different. You would think that as you get older and more mature you would be able to manage your time better, but I feel like I procrastinate more now than I did in high school, which is a high mark to meet.
Even right now I am putting off preparing a speech for tomorrow just to write a blog. I have used video games (mainly COD and Minecraft) I have taken about a million naps in my life, I have literally made it a point to watch entire movies twice just to avoid doing a paper. Thanks to Netflix I now have endless hours of procrastination, not to mention working out, basic cable, and eating myself into a food coma. All of these are easy ways to avoid doing my work. So I decided to look for other people who were either avid procrastinators, or had some way to fix it, and I found two completely different approaches.
I have only ever met one person I can consider an expert procrastinator though, and I will be honest the stories amaze me. It is one thing to put off a paper until the week that it is due, but this girl puts it off until the DAY it is due. She started a speech an hour before class started, and had to fake a trip to the hospital and put on one of those walking boots to make an excuse for showing up an hour and a half late for class. She wore the boot for 2 weeks to keep up the story. That’s dedication to procrastination! (To be fair she was actually injured trying to ice skate, but still, impressive work to make up for procrastinating for a few weeks.)
On the other hand I found a guy who seems to have solved his problem of procrastination. When he starts his homework, he changes his Facebook password to a random string of 50 characters that there is no way he can remember it. Then he prints it out, folds it up and puts it in his closet. He turns off his phone and locks it in a box, unplugs his TV, and basically secludes himself from the world until he is completely done studying or doing homework. He goes from normal person to paranoid that electronics will read his thoughts unless he is wearing an aluminum foil hat. When he was working on a paper he didn’t text his girlfriend for 2 days, and she got worried and called the police. Whoops…
I hope none of you people out there are at either extreme, but if you are like me, you have a problem and it needs fixing, so, taking some advice from our friend who lives under a rock, I am going to turn off everything electronic until I am done with what I need to have finished for school. In other words you will not hear from me for about 7 years! I will allow myself a blog per day as a reward for doing work.
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