Have you ever had a time where you were typing something up for an assignment and you were doing really well on it and all of it was gone? That just happened to me right now. It all happened so fast. First, I was sitting here relieved that the topic of this week’s blog was to vent out about our research paper when I realized that I had to pull up another assignment on Word and instead of exiting out of that one I exited on this. Not what I wanted to happen as I am not only trying to beat the clock to finish this blog but also to revise my synthesis essay as well. I know I am not the only procrastinator here and I feel like every time I do procrastinate I tell myself I won’t the next time and then the next and so on. It cracks me up when I think back to the countless of times I have done that. I guess I work better under pressure even though it would minimize the amount of stress I have with other things going on with my other classes and etc. When I first found out about the research paper I was not excited what so ever. I was dreading it and held it off every day and those days turned into weeks and now I’m calmly panicking as the due date is two days away. Papers’ in general are such a pain for me. I know I shouldn’t sit here and complain but I know others’ can agree with this as well. It takes me a good 45 minutes to an hour just to do a page, now I have to type up a minimum 5 page research paper? Every time I think about it I get tense and get painful migraines in the back of my head. Literally, they are a pain ha-ha.
I recently decided to switch the book I wanted to read from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to The Great Gatsby. So I’m crunching time and I’m going to see if I can really pull this off since I’m working on my paper still. Well to be honest I haven’t even started. Yikes! As I’m finishing up reading and looking up some sources I could use I found an interest in the topic. I feel that being a woman here in America we are truly blessed compared to women in other countries such as Iran. The book itself is such an inspiring memoir and it makes me look like a fool complaining when these women are out there trying to make a life for themselves. I know if I have something to say I can voice my opinion about it and with these women it was a constant battle because of their culture’s idea of a “woman”. I found this research paper enjoyable and I regret not doing this paper earlier so I could spend more time working on it. It’s crunch time now and I’m hoping I can stick this paper out and make it work.
So it’s nice to know that I’m not the only procrastinator in this class. I honestly wait till the last minute to do my papers, and I don’t know why. Just like you said you were telling yourself, I’m not going to do this again, but we do it again and again. I want to say it’s because it’s the end of the semester and I’m really dreading all the research papers from a variety of classes. I do put them off, but somehow I always finish. Just like you I do better under pressure because that’s when my words really start to flow. I have to finish so there is no messing around, only me and my computer. I try to think positive, if I spend an hour on each page, then I will finish in five hours. That sounds pretty sweet to me, because that time limit is almost a Biology lab. So it makes me not dread it so much, but for some reason I always find myself doing things last minute, and overall I wish I didn’t. It would be nice to be stress free, but honestly I don’t know what that is. So I’m going to turn in my paper today, then I am going to start editing my paper these next two weeks to make it better. Let’s finish this off stong!
ReplyDeleteI honestly think we have all been victims of things erasing on us or a computer shutting off before we can save something. it’s a horrible feeling, I felt like crying when it happened to me, I was going to give up, then I discovered my computer backed up my stuff and it was there for me. I’m in the same boat as you when it comes to procrastination, I swear we vow to never procrastinate again and we say we’re going to keep up and catch up and in the end we’re rushing and having mini panic attacks that we caused for ourselves. I can say I work well under pressure also, but that’s the only way I know how to work, so I’ve never really tried to take time to do stuff, maybe I should invest in that. A little stress doesn’t hurt anyone, but when it builds up so much that you think you’re going insane then maybe you should change your habits.
ReplyDeleteI pretty sure you’re going to make It work in the end, I think we are all strong and we have made it this far. All we need is a little more drive and a little more “umph” to go. We’ll all be fine as ling as we do what we are told. Good luck on your paper, I also found a fascination with the fact that as women we have so much freedom in this country and I am grateful for that.