My Procrastination

[Black.Ice]

I was saying that I was busy to everyone, and I wont be around for a week. Well, here's what happened.

It started on Wednesday, November 10th. The Calculus part wasn't too bad, but the book-report was the highlight of my time.

Thursday, November 10th

Receive a take home test in Calculus. Work out the majority of problems, and save the rest until later... Professor is feeling "nice" and decides to include the answers for this... we just have to show the work. Not too bad.

Sunday, November 14th

Whip out a quick paper for English 1010.

Monday, November 15th

Finish up the majority of Calc problems... Encounter one nasty problem that no one in the class knows how to solve. (Take home test is due Wednesday, with an in class quiz on Wednesday)

Get home, and remember that I have a Socciology book report due sometime December. Time to get the book, and start reading. Place a hold in the library for several books.

Monday Night, November 15th

Realized that I made a stupid mistake with the derivatves... Redo three problems. Don't get the answers which match the answers provided. Redo problems again. Don't get answers right. Began to get worried.

Tuesday 10:00 AM Sociology Class, November 16th

Find out book report is due today. But do the misprint on the Syllabus which states book report is due on the 17th, she'll be accepting them until the 18th of November. Frantically look through the 8 PAGE syllabus to see if this is a joke. She had worded it horribaly, and the book report was in fact due in a few days.

After I look at the syllabus and everything sinks in:

Freak out.

Tuesday 11:30 AM Campus Library, November 16th

Frantically check out book, and head to Calculus class. In a frenzied haste, manage to read 17 pages in 10 minutes.

Tuesday 12:00 PM Calculus Class, November 16th

Confront class regarding messed up answers. Class talks to professor. He made a mistake. Corrects answers.

Tuesday Afternoon, November 16th

Work maniaclly on Calculus test. Still can't figure out one problem. One problem is approximatley 15% of grade. Exams are 90% of grade. Missing one question on exam = bad grade for semester.

Tuesday 5:30PM, November 16th

Receive an e-mail from Calculus professor stating that his original answers were correct, not the answer that he gave in class. ... and because of this, test has been pushed until Thursday.

Moments later

Toss test aside, and grab book. Began reading.

1 Hour Later

Total of 65 pages into the book..

1 Hour Later

Total of 90 Pages into book

1 Hour later

Rereading one page several times to grasp the meaning of a word. Began to think the word "doctor" is funny, and can't understand the meaning of "the."

1 Hour Later

Figure I've absorbed as much as I can from the book that I will ever get. Began writing report.

2 Hours Later

Realize that professor has a strict outline, which includes a chapter by chapter summary of the book. BS the majority of the chapter summaries and how, "I really enjoyed the book. It was very insightful," Blah blah blah. Standard B/S stuff.

Wednesday, November 17th

Go over class and work on remaining calculus problems. Finally finish them, but there's still one problem that's baffling us. There's always until tonight to finish it.

Later Wednesday Night, November 18th

Skim over the remaining paragraphs to get the gist of them, and read the last to chapters. Finish writing the summary. Work painstakingly hard to B/S 4 pages of information. Professor requires 5-6 pages. Stuck at 3 3/4 pages. Write summary... get to 4 pages.

Go back, and reread some of the chapters, and began to analyze them with content. Elaborate on the chapter summaries. Add on about half a page. A total of 4 3/4 pages.

Then, realize that you haven't double spaced. Double space, and get a whopping 9 1/2 pages of pure b/s. Tears of happiness tream down my face at this time... or maybe they were tears of staring at the monitor for too long.

Seeing that it's an internet class, e-mail professor report around 9:00 PM.

Work on that damned calculus problem for 3 hours until 12:00 AM. Decide enough is enough, and go to sleep.

Thursday, November 18th

Sociology class goes by without any exciting happening, like usual.

Have an hour break. Eat food, and try that last problem. After not figuring it out, me and my friend run to the Math Lab, only to find 90% of my class there, working on the test. Ask the tutors, who explain it to me... Study

Take Exam...

Friday, November 19th

Waiting for results... for Calculus tests.

Receive two e-mails from professor, first one reads, "Three students received A's, while the bulk of the class received B/C's. There were a few students who received D's. There were no E's, unless you didn't turn in your assignment. Overall, I am impressed with the quality of work."

Next e-mail was entitled, "Graded"

Dreadfully turn to that e-mail to see how my B/S fared. Find the following comments, "Excellent paper! Good summaries, as well as critical analysis. I'm glad that you enjoyed the book. 100%"

More tears of happiness.

Now, I'm just waiting for my Calculus test results....

I'm proud to say that it's the best B/S'ing that I've done. A 310 page book read (most of it) and a 9 page report done in 1 1/2 day. Woot.

Anyone have any other good procrastination B/S stories?

[Dark_Soul74]

I decided to hold out on posting this, but I realized I might not get the crucial first reply.

[Spartan-II]

Ive done something like that before.
3 page book report on George Orwell's Animal Farm.
Wrote it in 3 hours and got 70/70 points and Several notes like "Outstanding" "Loved the reading"
etc..

[EdvardMunch]

I once wrote a 124 page screenplay that was a musical adaptation of the novel "The House Of The Spirits" over the course of five days (school days, so I only had about 17 hours/day to type, including sleeping time).

The musicals weren't original songs, but instead songs that already existed (I called this a "Moulin Rouge Style Musical." I figured it was a clever way of getting myself out of needing to be creative).

I had had two weeks to work on it, and during the first nine days I only planned out which songs I would use.

Unfortunately, writing a feature-length screenplay was a burden I dumped on myself. I had a history of writing long stories in that class (usually 20-30 pages, ugh) and I felt I couldn't disappoint. Ho hum.

It was kind of funny, because I'm mostly satisfied with the screenplay I finished, although in my last 25 pages I sort of started to lose it and filled it with bad jokes and took a lot of shortcuts (a narrator came in out of nowhere to help me get out of writing scenes). I think it had to do with the realization that my teacher wouldn't read a standard 20 page story, so why would she read a 120 page story? In the end, I didn't even finish. I just picked a scene, added some BS tension to the end of it to make it climactic, and called that good and went to sleep.

Half an hour later I woke up, got dressed, and turned it in. My grade was 155/155, and the teacher did not correct a single error or make a single note in the entire thing. Ho hum. At least I still have it, as proof of my week without sleep.

[Valjean]

I'm in middle school, so I haven't had to do anything quite as big, though I have had to work frantically one night. Here's what I had to do yesterday and this morning (keep in mind in [my] middle school they accept late work. ^_^):

*Do research on Spain and Tourism in Spain (basically hotels now, but most of the stuff I research I found out later I had to throw out so instead I'm going to add stuff about hotels [which my partner didn't do] and make the poster myself, possibly help my mother with glueing [glue is my arch nemesis...-_-;;;;]).

*Start on Spainish Alphabet book (right now I'm on B...>_>) which is due December 20th. Letters rr, ll, ch, and ñ are extra credit, illustartions in color, have to do 4 words or more for each letter to get an A. Also have to sustain a pattern and remember to color illustrations.

*Do work in Spanish Work Book (basically just listing school items like back-packs and pecils; the proper use of the words un, una, unos and unas; a bit of number reveiw...nothing too serious).

*Answer Maine State Learning Results "Essential Questions" on Photosynthesis, Finite Reseources, and Wetlands (Meh, Maine wants me to learn about Wetlands and Photosynthesis and Finite Resources while I want to learn about physics. >_<).

*Arange papers in science folder for binder check (I had to finish one paper I had bearly answered. ^_^;;: ).

*Finish Photosynthesis Study Guide (it was late, but I turned it in today so I shouldn't get too many points off for it. ^_^).

*Finish math paper on graphs, tables, and expressions (took awhile...O_O).

*Write a "Reading Respounse" to a book I'm reading (Jitterbug Perfume...^_^).

*Write a letter as an organ to my body (I was in a hurry, so I made a quick letter about my stomach and it telling me to bring a snack to social studies so I can eat it before social studies starts ).

And today I had to:

*Finish a Science Test (probably the hardest test I've taken so far, it's worded in a way I'm not used to so it made the questions difficult to answer at first).

*Finish a Math Test (Not that hard, pretty simular to the homework I had yesterday).

*Finish [i]another Math Test (this one we had before, but I had not seen a page, but the teacher let me do the page and then turn the test back in).

*Finish problems in Spanish Work Book.

*Read a school magazine on science and write a summary of one of the articles.

Here are some projects I have to do:

*Social Studies project on why voting is important (getting done, need to finish my timeline and then make a survey).

*Spanish project on Spain Tourism (poster and hotel listings).

*Spanish Alphabet book (barely started...>_>;;; ).

Well...it's gonna be a looooooong year. <_<

[bluemicrobyte]

on monday when I get my paper back I'll post the results here. You can look over it in the creative concepts forum if you like


Work on that damned calculus problem for 3 hours until 12:00 AM. Decide enough is enough, and go to sleep.THREE HOURS FOR ONE PROBLEM?!?!??!?!?!?!??! HOW HARD IS CALCULUS?!?!?!?

/me shudders

[Black.Ice]

Quite simple, actually. I just couldn't figure out L'Hospital rule on one of these horrid problems.

Here's the problem that I suffered through. Now that I look back at it, it's simple. Funny how that works, isn't it?

lim
x->infinity (cos (4/x))^(x^2)

[OboeGuru]

Well, I don't have a lengty, highly detailed story, but here goes.

For my sophomore (in High School) English class, we read Willa Cather's My Antonia. We were just given the book and told to read it because we would be tested on it on the semester final exam, nothing to check progress and whatnot, just a few class discussions in which participation is not expected/required. Being the lazy bastard I am, and having a distinct distate for books that don't fit in my niche, I didn't read a single page. Then my teacher had a brilliant insight to show the movie and have something to do with that on the final as well. Just peachy.

So the final exam rolls around, and the My Antonia section of the test was an essay. The only essay. So it was worth about half the grade. Also just peachy.
The assignment is to compare the book and the movie. Being the sly person I am, I picked up the gist of the book from the discussions and my teacher pointed out a few differences during the movie, which I duly noted.
So I threw in those tidbits with massive amounts of eloquent padding.

I got an A+ on that essay.

And the peasants rejoiced.

[Carnage]

Procrastination is like masturbation. In the end, you're just fucking yourself.

[TranquilNightElf]

Werewolf's mention of spanish reminds me of a funny incident.
This guy had to give a whole pragraph written in german for his class.The smart alec that he was, he used babelfish only instead of English to German he chose English to Spanish and handed in a Spanish essay for german class XD

Black.Ice. I applaud you sir on holding a stiff upper lip ^_^.
Yeah i remember those calculus problems. It happend to me and my friends all the time... something that was really simple seemed like banging your head against a brick wall,... ah.. good times ;)

Oh and Oboe... A + ?
Good going lad :)
How did the others who actually read the book, fare?

[OboeGuru]

Werewolf's mention of spanish reminds me of a funny incident.
This guy had to give a whole pragraph written in german for his class.The smart alec that he was, he used babelfish only instead of English to German he chose English to Spanish and handed in a Spanish essay for german class XD

Oh and Oboe... A + ?
Good going lad :)
How did the others who actually read the book, fare?
That's pure... umm... the jury's still out on a proper insult for that. :)

And as far as how other people did, I don't know, but if anyone didn't ace that, I'd wonder as to how intelligent they really are, given that it was an accelerated english class. :)
I'm inclined, however, to guess that my teacher more or less glazed over them to see if there was a smattering of truth in the essays and then slapped grades on them. I'm guessing this because the only thing written on the paper was a grade, and typically, while reading our essays, he made at least two scores of comments on every little thing.

[Carnage]

Oboe? Read? Teh roffles. ^^

[Mtank]

Since im in school, i usually dont get very big projects. But i am always lazy. always

*for the past decade, ive been doing my Summer homework in the last week of the two month long break

*We had 6 months to decide on a psychology project, i chose mine on the night before i had to tell the teacher

*6 days of Diwali break: I ended up doing my history homework late on the last night of the holidays, and was still too lazy to write the last paragraph (4 lines), thiking i would do it the next day before class. I didnt, and stalled for three days before writing it 5 minutes before the next history class.

Now we have to do a psychology and a history project due in January, but i havnt started either. I probably wont start it until aftyer christmas.


help me :(

[TranquilNightElf]

Do it now so you can enjoy your christmas break more.

[Mtank]

Do it now so you can enjoy your christmas break more.


i.....i.....cant!

/me collapses, gets up, and starts rocking back and forth after curling himself into a ball in the corner of the room.


actually, you're right. this must be done. today, i begin to think. tomorrow, i begin to act! day after tomorrow, i get my PS2 back, and i can play it!

[peace_machine]

Im kinda over all these essays and assignments being due. I find that unless I am incrediblly bad at a subject (english is a little sloppy but meh) it is possible to work on assesment pieces the night before it is due and still pass. If you don't have time to study for a test its no biggie, just means you freak out in the exam and barley pass.

Possibly not the best ideas but the last half of this year has been alot cooler slacking off.

BTW what kind of education system has you studying over christmas? Don't you start a fresh year?

[EdvardMunch]

Hey Mtank, just out of curiosity, what did you end up choosing for your psychology project? Did you find out any neat stuff?

[SSA_Ultimasheep]

i had to do a two page report on sharks in about 4 hours (including research). i managed to get a b+ on it.