Comments | firstcrusader: High in the air

firstcrusader

High in the air

Apr 23, 2007 03:13

Happy belated Earth Day.Also, I am apparently incapable of doing any writing before approximately 11:00 p.m. the night before a paper is due. Seriously. I've got a paper due at 5;00. I've been preparing for this paper since approximately the second week of class and have been doing reading on it since the fourth. I did a conference poster (for ( Read more... )

grad school, writing, research

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thegoldendonut April 24 2007, 15:39:31 UTC

I found myself doing that a few times this semester. I was able to pull through okay but now that I only have about a week and a half left of class I'm having to hurry up and work on a research paper that I never really developed at all (even though we were assigned topics near the beginning of the class).

firstcrusader April 24 2007, 16:23:30 UTC

Don't you hate that? It's like there's a mental block that you can't get past until the absolute last second. I heard somewhere that perfectionists tend to be the biggest procrastinators--we figure, if we wait until the last second, the imperfections won't bother us so much...

and_us_so_new April 25 2007, 04:00:11 UTC

remember douglas adams.
he was bad at deadlines.
and i think he was still an author.

distraction icywolfang April 25 2007, 06:45:15 UTC

http://uploads.ungrounded.net/content.php?id=375315&name=375315_angry_faic.swf&title=Angry%20Faic&date=1177473600&quality=b&uj=0&w=500&h=500

Ha there.

I feel like that sometimes.