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[SuiCidAl-KiSmEt]

I have a habit to procrastinate, which isn’t a good thing since I’m in high school. Is it bliss? Sometimes I do manage to pull off some of my homework, major projects, etc. but sometimes I don't do a good job at it.

Does anyone else have this same kind of thing? And for of you older people, have you procrastinated in high school and ended up not regretting it? It doesn't need to be focuse on high school only.

[frazz]

I procrastonate a little but I can still complete my homework. Remember if you do poorly in high school more doors will close for you later in life.

[Holocaust]

I procrastinate alot, since even the sight of homework and assignments bore me into slumber.
I'm in high school, I do procrastinate alot. Most of the time, the only thing I lose is sleep, so sometimes I do regret it a little when I walk into my business class first thing in the morning blurry eyed.

[U-238]

Highschool first, work second, play later. Even though it seems as if I have alot of time I just do everything very effiently. It's very important to learn as much as you can and learn it well becuase that will make life alot easier down the road. The only thing I procrastinate would be mowing the lawn.

[frazz]

U-238 is right. If you procrastinate homework will take way longer. If you focus on everything you do instead of daydreaming, you will get it done fast and have time for play.

[MidnightGladius]

Yep - if you can focus not on the tedium of work but the joys of finishing it, YET still keeping attention on the details of the work itself, you'll be fine.

Unfortunately, I wish I could apply that example onto myself. :/

[sumo88]

Procrastination is an art. Overdone it becomes tacky, and underdone, well... it's no longer art. So in essence you tread a fine line between a Picasso and fingerpainting. Just like art, some people got the skillz and others... well ... dont. So if you have refined those skills to a point where you can get your life to function normally, i say what the heck, might as well show your talent :)

[JenJen]

I procrastinate all the time, but i end up getting it all done in the end. I really only get it done because i need high grades since my parents are insane. They've made me to worry about everything, especially grades.

You just have to set aside time and say i will spend this time from 6 to 7 working on homework. it helps me when i schedule out my night.

[Black.Ice]

I used to procrastinate all the time through high school. Probably because the majority of the stuff did not interest me and it was a bore. I look back and I regret it. If I hadn't been so lazy, I could've done so much more. Throughout college, I reworked the way I get stuff done and it's a lot better.

[Basan]

I did some serious procastinating in my ol' schooling days and it never stopped me from passing with good grades. Not excellent but good enough by my standards. :)
Than my ol'men just had the 'brilliant idea' to make me took an IQ/trade test to see what I was more inclined to do and it sorta explained... why I had such capabillity (to come down on some teachers and still pass). :P

[Schwitzer]

All work and no play makes Jack a boring boy. You need to procrastinate a bit - otherwise you'll burn yourself out.

As long as you get your work done in the end, it's all good. However, if you're procrastinating so much that you feel the work you're submitting isn't as good as it should be, you need to rethink your priorities.

[Modred]

I procrastinate quite a bit. In fact, I usually don't start papers until the night before they're due, sometimes even the morning of. Somehow I still manage to pull As and Bs, but I'm sure the grades could be better if I put a little more work into the essays. But most of the time it doesn't catch up with me.

I've developed a system for studying late at night, where instead of working all night and then sleeping 2 or fewer hours, I simply take 15 minute naps every 2-3 hours. That way I don't completely exhaust myself and I can usually finish my work and stay awake in class the next day. But I can't do that more than two days in a row.

[Whiteknight]

It sort of depends on what kind of procrastination you do. If you do small things instead of the large thing you're supposed to do, that's not all that good. If you ignore small things instead to do big things, then that's pretty good. If you do nothing at all instead, then that's not good at all.

I can't really talk, though, I'm an incredibly procrastinator. I'll rarely start things early or hand things in early. Despite this, I'm rarely ever late and my marks are in the 90-somes.

[Modred]

Let's take the example playing out before you right now. I have a paper due Wednesday morning at nine and an exam immediately following at ten. Now, I have neither started on the paper nor studied for the exam. I have, however, sat in front of the computer doing almost nothing for the past two hours and will probably continue to do so for several more hours.

In addition, this behavior will probably be repeated until approximately 2 am Wednesday morning. I really should get to work on this stuff...

[Aquarian]

I procastinate all the time... Including now :D

[hammocksleeper]

A common mistake is for people to prioritize their tasks based on how urgently it must be done, in other words, by how soon the deadline is. For example, getting to Gamestop to buy that video game before the store closes at 5. But there is a second factor missing from a lot of people's reasoning, and that is how important the task is. If there's something more important you should be doing, then you have to weigh that in also.

This stuff sounds intuitive but you'd be surprised at how many people don't follow it. Check out this matrix, ideally you should be spending most of your time in the first quadrant. Where are you spending your time?

http://www.warboards.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=3519&stc=1&d=1145975219

[EvilEggCracker]

I hate school work so much. I barely ever do homeworks (apart from History ones, I like history :D) cause I find most of the subjects boring.

When a major exam comes however, I am forced too revise anyway, although, I usually forget the work the next day...

[U-238]

I did some serious procastinating in my ol' schooling days and it never stopped me from passing with good grades. Not excellent but good enough by my standards.
Than my ol'men just had the 'brilliant idea' to make me took an IQ/trade test to see what I was more inclined to do and it sorta explained... why I had such capabillity (to come down on some teachers and still pass).

Which ,I suppose, explains why you're almost 30 y/o and still visiting a forum where some of the moderators are half your age right? :P

All work and no play makes Jack a boring boy. You need to procrastinate a bit - otherwise you'll burn yourself out.


Not so, I find people who procrastinate never ever get anything done whereas people like me get important things done quickly and efficently therefore we have more time to do things we enjoy.

Let's take the example playing out before you right now. I have a paper due Wednesday morning at nine and an exam immediately following at ten. Now, I have neither started on the paper nor studied for the exam. I have, however, sat in front of the computer doing almost nothing for the past two hours and will probably continue to do so for several more hours.

In addition, this behavior will probably be repeated until approximately 2 am Wednesday morning. I really should get to work on this stuff...

Start the paper the day you're told to do it and work on it as much as you can untill you think it will be satifatory enough to get you a good grade (B+ a the least). As for the studying part I can't help you much there. Whenever I read something once it usually sticks so I don't have to study a whole lot. But I'd suggest, in this scenario, that you study whenever you're relaxed and arn't doing anything important.(Playing games talking to friends and sitting online are NOT important. As well as many other things I could list but chose not to because they would make this little side comment bigger than it is even now.) And one more thing NEVER EVER study when you're tired. BIG mistake.

[frazz]

All work and no play makes Jack a boring boy. You need to procrastinate a bit - otherwise you'll burn yourself out.
No, a low attention span makes jack a dull boy.

U-238, you are a model citizen.:)

[Modred]

Start the paper the day you're told to do it and work on it as much as you can untill you think it will be satifatory enough to get you a good grade (B+ a the least).
Heh, I can pull B+, A-, and sometimes A writing on the first draft. That was the whole point, I could get all As if I planned my time. =p

[TheGreatBrain]

I thought procrastinating was bad in High School, but it's a real bitch in College. But, I still get stuff done when it comes down to it.

[IrishDutchman]

Oh, man, I mess about all the time! I hardly ever get work done, and my best mood to do work in is last minute pressure.
Par example, I have a Dutch test tomorrow, its 21:25, I have hardly studied, and I need to be in bed after 10:00, I'll probably end up doing it in bed and next mornin'
It's a good thing I'm hella smart (if I may say so myself) or I'd be fucked.
I never do my homework except if it seems necesaary or you'll be graded for it sometime, not because I 'm lazy but because I feel I already understand all of it and it seems superfluous and unnecesary.
BTW, I get straight A's.

I'll probably need to change my habits sooner or later, but I'm 12 years old, so let me be immature and irresponsible while I still can! :)

[U-238]

Heh, Don't keep up with it or it'll catch on with you for your whole life.

@Modred: Well then plan you time for pitance sake!

[wa123]

Not your fault, laziness is within every fuking human’s mind.
But some point in time of your life will notice that education impact your career, is so hard to find a job without the proper qualification.
There is a reason why most adult keep complaining and regret that they didn’t do enough during they time in HS, you don’t want to end up with one of those right?
Clear your mind up and finish the work first, you have plenty of time to play and rest later.

[Sikawtic]

I am the procrastination king.

Though, recently... I've been doing my geometry (i hate geometry... so eaaaaaaaasy... i've already taken adv alg and some college alg so this shit is gay.... so fucking boring) the next day when my teacher talks because it's to easy to need her to talk about it for an hour ...

Also I have the uncanny ability to ace tests without studying more than 5 minutes before class, ^_^

[frazz]

Here's a nice example:
I just now finished my term paper. I finished the research a week and a half ago. I started writing it a week ago. I didn't work on it more than 30 mins a day until 5 days ago.
Luckily I didn't have anything else to do for the past two weeks, so procrastination worked out. And I still have 14.5 hours until it's due. Now I can play starcraft, post in message boreds, and do whatever time wasting stuff I could not have done if I had other stuff to do this week. :)

[IrishDutchman]

Heh, sounds like there's a lot of people like me (procrastinaters that still get high grades)
I wonder what the IQ average of WB is?

[Modred]

Whee, I think procrastination has caught up with me. The paper I turned in is sub par by my standards (expecting a B+) and I completely froze on my test today. The questions were not difficult and I had a little over an hour, but I did not complete one and completely messed up two. Note this was out of five questions, each worth 20% of the grade. And to think I had an A in that class...

[IrishDutchman]

That bites...
In holland we get graded in numbers, ranging from 1 to 10, 10 being the highest.
If I get an average grade of 8 by the end of the year, I'm getting 50 euro's from my parents!

[GrassDragon]

Let's take the example playing out before you right now. I have a paper due Wednesday morning at nine and an exam immediately following at ten. Now, I have neither started on the paper nor studied for the exam. I have, however, sat in front of the computer doing almost nothing for the past two hours and will probably continue to do so for several more hours.
This is exactly the problem I have. Despite knowing that I have much more important things that I should be working on, I continue to sit at my computer and do nothing, sometimes even thinking to myself "I'm bored." Yet I can't tear myself away to do the things I need to. Maybe I'm addicted or something.

I have the uncanny ability to ace tests without studying more than 5 minutes before class, ^.^
Unfortunately I also have this problem, which only reinforces my laziness.

[Protosschick99]

Yeah I procrastinated A LOT. But you could never tell because my mom always worked wonders with her vast knowledge of how to make something look professional in the last minute, lolz :P

Nobody ever thought my stuff was last minute--I always got away with it--I'm getting better at not being late all the time, but I sure could use a kick in the butt to not procrastinate all the time :P

[GenocideAlive]

Unfortunately I also have this problem, which only reinforces my laziness.
Well, fortunately if you go to college in a major that's worth two squirts of piss, this little "problem" will resolve itself. You don't pass 5 page written exams in graduate split level courses without something like 20 hours study time.

[GrassDragon]

Well, fortunately if you go to college in a major that's worth two squirts of piss, this little "problem" will resolve itself. You don't pass 5 page written exams in graduate split level courses without something like 20 hours study time.
Except that if I am already used to studying only an hour or so for a final the first semester/year is going to be hell.

[xodkrm]

Lazyness pawns.
I dont study lots , unless I have some kind of a crazy big final , even then 5 mins max right before the exam or test.(key to not studying: listen during class.)
I dont do alot of my homework.
I finish most my projects, and major assignments and I get average B.

[Protoss_Honor]

This is exactly the problem I have. Despite knowing that I have much more important things that I should be working on, I continue to sit at my computer and do nothing, sometimes even thinking to myself "I'm bored." Yet I can't tear myself away to do the things I need to. Maybe I'm addicted or something.That is me, totally me. Being homeschooled is good in that you can choose what you do and when you do it, you have more freedom of choice and free time, but it is bad in that if you plan badly or just plain have fun instead of work, you can get behind like me. I have good grades and stuff, I am just far behind in my work. I wanna get the work done, but I would rather sit around and do fun stuff. Warboards is addictive. Addictive I tell you! We should put up a sign on the main page, "Warning! Joining Warboards may be hazardous to your work!" or something. Wellp, I'ma gonna try and stop procrastinating and try and get my school done. Bye.


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[hammocksleeper]

There are ways to get around doing work even in college (and I go to the best state school in the country). For all my courses that are intensive in reading, I skip the lecture because the professor sends the powerpoint slides in an email, and I don't do the reading (something like 200+ pages a week for each of the classes I am talking about). At the end of the semester before the final I will put together a study group with others in the class and divide up the readings, have each person write a summary and compile them send it you to everyone. So I only have to do like one of the readings

I also am a fast learner, and a lot of the shit we learn seems intuitive to me and comes naturally, so I do a lot of cramming before tests, and not much else.

That said, I'm not a very good role model, and it's easy to fall into the pitfalls of not doing anything, which I do on occasion and I really get fucked for it. For example recently one of my teachers threatened to fail me and I have failed a few midterms that I was unprepared for. But I still have roughly a 3.0 gpa, you just gotta make sure you keep your shit in order.

[ScottieIWU]

There are ways to get around doing work even in college (and I go to the best state school in the country). Well, shameless self-promotion aside, I have so many qualms with what you've said.

At my school, with an average (non-gen ed) class size ranging from 10-15 students, skipping lectures is not so much an option. Often you're docked hard for not going to a class, such as my roommate who lost 5% of his total semester grade for missing a class.

Plus, pre-college level writing is a joke. Everybody I knew wrote their essays the night before it was due and many of them got A's on them. Now those same people are C students in college because they don't study enough. At my school, which isn't the #1 state school in the country (and thus is not any kind of measure of what college reallyis like), you don't write an essay the night before and get an A very often. I've done that once and it was in a 100-level gen ed course in English, my major topic. Otherwise, often it consists of sitting down well before-hand and writing a rough draft, bringing it to the school's writing center, getting suggestions there, and then revising it yet again. In many classes if you don't do that much work, you don't get even a B on the paper.

Moral of the story? Get your shit together before college or you're in for a very, very rude awakening. Often scholarships depend on GPA and I know more than a few people who had such confidence in their ability that they never studied and partied hard, resulting in them losing scholarships.

But then again, I don't go to the number one state school in the country so what do I know about working hard.

[hammocksleeper]

Scottie I think you misinterpreted the reason why I mentioned what school I go to. The point was that I didn't want y'all to dismiss my story as only being applicable if you go to a bottom- or mid-tier school. Besides, you should know that it doesn't really matter what school you go to but how much work and heart you put into your studies.

[frazz]

Exactly what school do you go to? I'm trying to get into Caltech, and from what I hear from talking to the people who go there, it isn't easy. People there start assignments way early and often end up with "B"s. I'm gonna have to stop procrastinating if I want to go there, My GPA is good enough to get in, but in Caltech it's about more than your GPA. Ofcourse I have to write a killer essay to get in and I hate essays. I've been putting off english classes, but I stink at english so I need to stop procrastinating.(at everything really)