Aesius
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This is relatively weak compared to most of my other stories, but I have a speech due at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow and barely have anything done. I will probably end up reading it entirely off of note cards.
But my proudest/simultaneously most shameful procrastination moment has to be from a couple of semesters ago in my Mass Media Law class. Almost everyone was doing horrible in the class, so the professor offered to replace our lowest exam grade (there were only 3 and those were the only grades) if we completed a 12-page paper on the Patriot Act. Since I had a 30 on my lowest exam (didn't study), I took up his offer. He assigned the paper in October and it was due on a random date in early December at 11 p.m. in his inbox.
Of course, I didn't start until 6 p.m. that night. I started typing, got four sentences written, and almost had a complete nervous breakdown at the herculean task before me. I started pacing around my living room and pulling at my hair. I then spent the next 20 minutes contemplating what would happen if I simply didn't do the paper and failed the class. That turned into fantasizing about dropping out of college and living a life of a blue collar manual laborer. Wild things start running through your mind in moments of great desperation like that. I almost convinced myself to just give up and go get drunk, but somehow the little voice of reason inside me prevailed.
Finally, I buckled down and through sheer willpower finished it at 10:45 p.m. It was the most focused I have ever been on a single assignment. I know nothing about the Patriot Act, and we had to have 10 sources. I ended up abusing the hell out of Google Books and a trial subscription to Questia to finish it.
I ended up getting an A on the paper and a B in the class. I shudder to think what would have happened if my spotty internet connection had decided to go out at any point during that 5 hour period. Sadly, I did not learn my lesson in any way and continue to procrastinate, just like I'm doing right now
So what kind of horrible procrastination stories do you guys have?
But my proudest/simultaneously most shameful procrastination moment has to be from a couple of semesters ago in my Mass Media Law class. Almost everyone was doing horrible in the class, so the professor offered to replace our lowest exam grade (there were only 3 and those were the only grades) if we completed a 12-page paper on the Patriot Act. Since I had a 30 on my lowest exam (didn't study), I took up his offer. He assigned the paper in October and it was due on a random date in early December at 11 p.m. in his inbox.
Of course, I didn't start until 6 p.m. that night. I started typing, got four sentences written, and almost had a complete nervous breakdown at the herculean task before me. I started pacing around my living room and pulling at my hair. I then spent the next 20 minutes contemplating what would happen if I simply didn't do the paper and failed the class. That turned into fantasizing about dropping out of college and living a life of a blue collar manual laborer. Wild things start running through your mind in moments of great desperation like that. I almost convinced myself to just give up and go get drunk, but somehow the little voice of reason inside me prevailed.
Finally, I buckled down and through sheer willpower finished it at 10:45 p.m. It was the most focused I have ever been on a single assignment. I know nothing about the Patriot Act, and we had to have 10 sources. I ended up abusing the hell out of Google Books and a trial subscription to Questia to finish it.
I ended up getting an A on the paper and a B in the class. I shudder to think what would have happened if my spotty internet connection had decided to go out at any point during that 5 hour period. Sadly, I did not learn my lesson in any way and continue to procrastinate, just like I'm doing right now
So what kind of horrible procrastination stories do you guys have?
