Do you procrastinate?

TheRaisin · #1 01-02-2005, 06:18 PM

Well, do you? I sure do. I honestly can't help it, I procrastinate like hell. The fact of the matter is, I just can't stand most school work, so I just don't do it. Then when the deadline approaches I get panicky because I hate failure so I try to do it really fast and I just end up not finishing or doing a horrible job.

How do you fight it?

mawk · #2 01-02-2005, 07:25 PM

I don't procrastinate, I just flat out refuse to do things. If there is something I don't want to do, then I just don't do it, and everyone who doesn't like it simply has to live with it. The only exception to this, is if it has to be done. I will do something which must be done regardless of how little I may want to do it.

I have no idea why this is. I'm not a particularly pushy or aggressive person, I guess I just see no point in doing things that I don't want to do.

Languor · #3 01-02-2005, 07:28 PM

I use to be a procrastinator. During elementary and middle school I was just horrible - I would start major projects that took HOURS the night before. Yes, not the day - the night. When I entered high school though I got serious with school and started actually trying. I admit that I still do procrastinate but it's manageable at least - usually I just put off doing minor assignments or stuff that I know I can do in a short amount of time. I definitely think that not procrastinating is the better strategy, having tried both methods.

And mawk, that is awesome. I wish I could do that.

Facsimile · #4 01-02-2005, 10:21 PM

Yes I do. But if it's something that I genuinely have no desire to do, then I won't do it. Life's too short to be spent doing crap you don't want to.

Majic · #5 01-02-2005, 10:21 PM

More appropriately, who doesn't procrastinate?

Granted, if there's a set of circumstances where others are relying on my fabulous skills at life, I get my ass in gear. If there's a project, or household chore, that just demands being done, I'll get around to it when it best suits my vacant schedule. Minor assignments/tasks are prolonged indefinitely, though that's certainly a habit I need to break.

Facsimile · #6 01-02-2005, 10:33 PM

Yeah, I will do a job for a friend usually straight away, but at school I just. Don't. Care.
Thankfully, I'm somewhat smart, otherwise I would have fallen behind years ago.

Rich · #7 01-03-2005, 04:17 AM

I procrastinate like a bitch. And thanks to this topic, I now feel really bad about it.

***Alcar*** · #8 01-03-2005, 06:16 AM

My registration, and further postings are the result of procrastination

Alcar...

AquaticAmbi · #9 01-03-2005, 08:55 AM

My procrastination problem is ever worsening. I joined two community service clubs at school, both requiring 20 hours to be served, and yeah... I have under 5 I believe for both so far. I have no idea what I'm going to do.

The first semester of school this year was probably the worst ever as far as putting off studying and homework goes. Meh, I plan to change that second semester.

Leeum · #10 01-03-2005, 11:56 AM

Mine's getting worse. Problem is i never get round to doing it

TheRaisin · #11 01-03-2005, 02:15 PM

Mine is worsening all the time. It's already horrible. I feel like dropping out and running away, but unfortunately I have no interpersonal or physical skills so that would kind of not work out too well.

I wish I lived in the time and place The River Why is set in. It was written around thirty years ago, when one could still find parts of Oregon practically untouched by people. If you knew how to fish, you could just live off the fat of the land. Not really an option in eastern Washington in 2005.

I know that's not going to happen though. I'm either going to do my work out of sheer panic, images of a roomful of laughing students haunting me, or I'm going to flunk at least one class.

Facsimile · #12 01-03-2005, 11:16 PM

I always think I'm going to try harder and not do it, but like a lot of you, I'm also getting worse.

Coolmanbizkit · #13 01-04-2005, 09:20 AM

I procrastinate all the time, lol im even doing it now.

I just cant be bothered to do my homework that has to be in tommorow

paramite5 · #14 01-04-2005, 10:32 AM

Oh mann im like the worse procrastinater (and speller) I know I'd be like "I have work to do but I really want to play video games so first Ill do the work and then Ill play games" and them im like "I'll start in 5 minutes" and by the end of the day I get noting done.
Im such an idiot

Rich · #15 01-04-2005, 11:02 AM

Paramite5, I have never seen you before. But your join date indicates you're a veteran.

Luckily, I get little homework. Even less reason to bother doing it...

TheRaisin · #16 01-04-2005, 06:09 PM

It's a bitch, innit?

Mine is getting worse because I'm starting to care less what anyone else thinks. Used to be, my main reason to do work was to keep up appearances, seem smart (which I am, I may be a lazy bum but at least I'm a smart one), and not get hassled by teachers or peers. Now I give just barely a crap and a half, and that number is slowly decreasing.

And I still really want to go to UW, but now it's been at least half a year since I've been there on a field trip and it seems far away in space and time and even though I know if I screw up a couple more times I'll never get in, somehow it doesn't help motivate me.

This is where some people achieve incredible success and some fall apart: under duress, student number one, "The Good Student", will strive harder to escape an indesirable outcome, achieve what they set out to achieve, and do very very well. A few emotional problems, sure, and they'll grow up into cardiac-arresting uptight workaholics, but they'll have a high-paying job and be able to afford high-priced psychiatric help to keep them together, and overall their life will be pretty good. Student number one, "The Bad Student", will simply become depressed by the prospect of failure and, well, fail. And you know where that leads . . . forty, still living in parents' basement, only a computer to keep you company, et cetera.

At least that's the way I see it. Am I being hyperbolic or exceptionally realistic? I don't know, but I feel like a doomed life awaits me if I don't get my crap together.

paramite5 · #17 01-05-2005, 11:12 AM

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Paramite5, I have never seen you before. But your join date indicates you're a veteran.

(this is my first time using the quote thing lol)

Yeah I read the forums alot but I hardly ever post because I just never know what to say but this topic was just so me I thaught I'd say somting

Rich · #18 01-05-2005, 02:33 PM

Today I got my first piece of Coursework back. I got an A lower, which is rather good.

My mum was also pleased with my report. I'll probably get high off sweet success and not do my homework.

Silversnow · #19 01-05-2005, 04:39 PM

Yes, I do. I don't think there's anything I can do about it, I'm simply a lazy person.

TheRaisin · #20 01-05-2005, 05:43 PM

We're just a lot of lazy people, aren't we?

Oddly Insane · #21 01-06-2005, 06:04 PM

WE'RE LAZY AND PROUD OF IT!!(atleast I am)

TheRaisin · #22 01-06-2005, 06:15 PM

Hell no I'm not proud of it! What, you think it's good to procrastinate?! Shit no, man! It's horrible and should be bred out of the human race!

How could you possibly be proud of procrastinating? That's like the kids in middle school who bragged about how bad their grades were.

Languor · #23 01-06-2005, 07:12 PM

EDIT: That's like the kids in high school who bragged about how bad their grades were.

Facsimile · #24 01-06-2005, 11:14 PM

I brag about how bad my grades are in Science. But that's to prove a point.

TheRaisin · #25 01-07-2005, 09:19 PM

What point might that be?

Really, Languor? Most of the people I know have outgrown such childishness. Then again, I am taking all honors classes. Maybe if I took normal classes there would be a bunch of people talking about how theirs is the lowest grade in the class and acting cool and stuff and such.

Facsimile · #26 01-07-2005, 11:51 PM

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What point might that be?

The point that science is lame, and I shouldn't have had to choose it as a subject in a year that can affect my later life.
Thanks for lowering my career options, arseholes.

Leto · #27 01-08-2005, 01:10 AM

Procrastination isn't really a habit caused by yourself, more of something that just happens. My procrastination is just purely because I forget/ get too involved in things before-hand/ just, put them off for some reason, unknown to me.
Secondly, does anyone in this forum NOT procrastinate?

Languor · #28 01-08-2005, 05:13 AM

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What point might that be?

Really, Languor? Most of the people I know have outgrown such childishness. Then again, I am taking all honors classes. Maybe if I took normal classes there would be a bunch of people talking about how theirs is the lowest grade in the class and acting cool and stuff and such.

I'm taking all honors classes too, but that doesn't mean that I don't run into these people. I'm 10th in a class of 560 something. So...?

Abeguy · #29 01-08-2005, 02:55 PM

Hey, you're talking to the king of procrastonation man
I don't do my homework till the morning before it's due
It's hard to fight

TheRaisin · #30 01-08-2005, 03:11 PM

Abeguy, I often don't do my homework at all.

Amazing, Languor. I'm always astounded at the level of immaturity around me, but this year even I haven't encountered any of the "My grade is so bad! I'm awesome!" types. Sounds like you're in class with some real idiots.

I feel for you Fax. If it's any consolation, you could probably still find a relatively wild forested area of Oregon and live on fish and game and forego any kind of modern job.