Leaving tasks to the last minute

B_Rabbit

I was given an assignment in October, due tomorrow, and I started it yesterday. Absolute disaster, kicking myself for not starting it earlier.

Have you any good stories of rushing to meet deadlines from putting things off to the last minute?

LETHAL LADY

Panic is the best sauce.

shruikan2553

Due tomorrow? Do tomorrow. In my class we say nothing makes an engineer more productive than the last minute.

In college they had a workshop on procrastination and I thought to myself "hmm, that will be useful for me, I'll just go to the next one", next one came around and I said the same thing again.

sonyvision

If it wasnt for the last 5 minutes of everything i would never have gotten any thing done

nocoverart

I always leave tasks till the last minute OP and that's why I still wear nappies.

Karl Stein

There's a word for that.. what's the word again?... I'll get back to you with the word.

Lapin

Carlos Roca wrote: »

There's a word for that.. what's the word again?... I'll get back to you with the word.

Procras.........

Fuggit I'll finish typing it tomorrow.

poundapunnet

13000 words due for Monday. 8000 done as of this minute.

I have no "got the assignment done on time" stories OP, they're all last minute things. I've always gotten good enough marks too, I just function best under pressure. I think. I've never been organised enough to have a point of comparison.

The Backwards Man

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today so you can do something different tomorrow.

poundapunnet

Lapin wrote: »

Procras.........

Fuggit I'll finish typing it tomorrow.

Be grand.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I did all my assignments at the last minute for my LLB, I give my best work under the pressure of the clock.

Ted_YNWA

Looks like I'm the only one that likes to get assignments finished ASAP. Preferred to have college projects finished 2-3 weeks early to reread & update.

Mike747

6000 words due tomorrow night and here I am dossin on boards.

Chucken

Mike747 wrote: »

6000 words due tomorrow night and here I am dossin on boards.

If 6000 of us give you one word each, will that help?

Ciderswigger

8k thesis due in 2 weeks. I'll start tomorrow. Promise.

Mike747

Chucken wrote: »

If 6000 of us give you one word each, will that help?

Can't imagine it'll be much worse than what I'm writing now.

Lapin

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Looks like I'm the only one that likes to get assignments finished ASAP. Preferred to have college projects finished 2-3 weeks early to reread & update.

Thats my New Year's resolution.

I aim to start on Paddy's Weekend.

EuskalHerria

One assignment given in October and two in November. Typed 14,000 words between Tuesday and Thursday. Have the last one to do tonight due tomorrow. Have volunteer work between 6 and 9 this evening.
If I can report back that it has been done, I'd like a small parade.

YFlyer

poundapunnet wrote: »

13000 words due for Monday. 8000 done as of this minute.

Complete the report in 10,000 words or so.

Tasden

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Looks like I'm the only one that likes to get assignments finished ASAP. Preferred to have college projects finished 2-3 weeks early to reread & update.

Whenever I get an assignment done well in advance, which is very rare, either the lecturer then offers a whole different take on it that's a lot better than mine so I end up redoing most of it anyway, or else I get so panicked by everyone else's "omg that's such a hard assignment I don't even know where to start" that I doubt myself and worry until the due date, which is worse than panicking over getting it done in time.

I usually need the deadline looming to get myself motivated, otherwise I keep saying "ah I have the groundwork done, its just a case of putting it all down on paper", that is never the case.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Doing a presentation now that's due for 9 tomorrow. I've known about it for 3 months. Kicking myself now.

internet_user

i work best when under pressure, always leave things till the last minute

knotknowbody

Have 5000 words due for midnight tonight, know about it since early October, plan on making a start as soon as the Liverpool match is over.:mad::mad::mad: Everyone has one talent, mine's procrastination.

sinead88

The last minute dash basically ends up being my action plan for everything. I think I just need the adrenaline to work well. When I was in uni I had an awful habit of going on nights out, then coming home and writing essays to be handed in the next day. Somehow I always did fine. Every time I end up pulling an all nighter or leaving something till the last possible minute I promise myself that I'll be more prepared next time around. That has yet to happen.

Femme_Fatale

And it's "Glenroe feeling" time now.

bulmersgal

I've four test this week n I've only started studying now :-( well in a few min whenever I get off boards

Jesus Wept

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Due tomorrow? Do tomorrow. In my class we say nothing makes an engineer more productive than the last minute.

In college they had a workshop on procrastination and I thought to myself "hmm, that will be useful for me, I'll just go to the next one", next one came around and I said the same thing again.

I don't need a workshop on procrastination, I'm a ****ing expert.

holystungun9

Ciderswigger wrote: »

8k thesis due in 2 weeks. I'll start tomorrow. Promise.

My thesis

k k k k k k k k.

Just copy and paste my friend. Now you can waste the next two weeks on boards and swiggin' cider.

danslevent

I have to write the conclusion and do the bibliography for an essay due tomorrow at four and then immediately start the other essay I have due Wednesday. Had over a month to do them....

danslevent

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Looks like I'm the only one that likes to get assignments finished ASAP. Preferred to have college projects finished 2-3 weeks early to reread & update.

What I would give to be like that!

BanzaiBk

I have 3,000 words due for Tuesday. I'm normally prepared-ish for assignments but I dislike the module/lecturer. Typed 700 or so bullsh!t words today. Finding my Roget's Thesaurus riveting at the moment.

Aineoil

I thought I was the only person who left things to the last minute. I love the solidarity of this thread.

You sit in front of the laptop with great ideas of doing some work and you end up playing Candycrush or the likes on facebook.

Mind you I have finished my review of work for last December tonight, through gritted teeth, and many failed attempts at getting through Candycrush in the meantime. Gritted teeth at Candycrush too....mad game!

My God, reading this thread makes me feel orgasmic that I've finished with thesis/homework deadlines.

Having said that, that type of sh*t just continues in work life - always something on the horizon to make me feel uneasy (but not uneasy enough that I get it done with time to spare )

danslevent

Deleted User wrote: »

My God, reading this thread makes me feel orgasmic that I've finished with thesis/homework deadlines.

Having said that, that type of sh*t just continues in work life - always something on the horizon to make me feel uneasy (but not uneasy enough that I get it done with time to spare )

Oh I know! Every so often over Christmas my mind would wander over to the work I should be doing but instead I left it all up to future-me, which is currently preset-me....past-me is such a dick.

danslevent

danslevent wrote: »

Oh I know! Every so often over Christmas my mind would wander over to the work I should be doing but instead I left it all up to future-me, which is currently preset-me....past-me is such a dick.

I can smell a fellow Seinfeld fan a mile away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Cz-LK16g4

Dupont

Just make the first and last page look good and copy the rest from anything. That's all they will look at. Sure why even bother, are you going into the type of work were you go into the office Monday morning and the boss says here write 13000 word essay on how great you are,????

MadYaker

1500 words due on tuesday. Have I started? Have I f*ck.

chrissb8

MadYaker wrote: »

1500 words due on tuesday. Have I started? Have I f*ck.

Pfft that is 2-3 hours work!

chrissb8

Try doing a 4000 word essay and input 25 rows and 20 columns of numbers in SPSS. All done within a day and one horrible horrible night. Sense of achievement though was huge. Been pretty on the ball about assignments since then. Just get them done.

sinead88

chrissb8 wrote: »

Try doing a 4000 word easy and input 25 rows and 20 columns of numbers in SPSS. All done within a day and one horrible horrible night. Sense of achievement though was huge. Been pretty on the ball about assignments since then. Just get them done.

Fair play. SPSS is the devil!

jubella

I've an exam at 3.30 tomorrow. Planning to go to the library at 9am to start studying for it.

Ericaa

Right now, I'm supposed to have two Android apps made before 5:55AM. I'm f*cked.

JumpShivers

I've had 5 essays and a presentation due this week, only started each the night before.. So much coffee and lack of sleep. And I've known about them since the start of November.

My last essay is due tomorrow, and I'm on Boards.. Having not started yet. :rolleyes:

Femme_Fatale

Thank fuk I didn't know about Boards when I was doing my finals, and Facebook was only in its infancy. :eek:

poundapunnet

I very sensibly didn't go to the pub last night because I had a load of work to do, so instead I stayed in, watched Sherlock and did hardly any work, then my friends came back from the pub with a load of beer and so I ended up pulling an all-nighter with one of them, getting langered and waiting for my other friend to get back from the airport at ten am (I think he was touched, he was definitely amused). Then I had a nap. I would've been better off going to the bloody pub.

So I've had 3 hours sleep since 11am Saturday, I still have 750 words and a bibliography to do, I know I have to be up at 8am, and yet here I am doing nothing. It's the darnedest thing.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Thank fuk I didn't know about Boards when I was doing my finals, and Facebook was only in its infancy. :eek:

You can tell when I've got work due because I'm all over this place like a rash!

Eutow

poundapunnet wrote: »

I very sensibly didn't go to the pub last night because I had a load of work to do, so instead I stayed in, watched Sherlock and did hardly any work, then my friends came back from the pub with a load of beer and so I ended up pulling an all-nighter with one of them, getting langered and waiting for my other friend to get back from the airport at ten am (I think he was touched, he was definitely amused). Then I had a nap. I would've been better off going to the bloody pub.

So I've had 3 hours sleep since 11am Saturday, I still have 750 words and a bibliography to do, I know I have to be up at 8am, and yet here I am doing nothing. It's the darnedest thing.




You can tell when I've got work due because I'm all over this place like a rash!

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black_frosch

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Due tomorrow? Do tomorrow. In my class we say nothing makes an engineer more productive than the last minute.

That sounds good!

PizzamanIRL

Just finished an assignment I was given 4 weeks ago that is due in 8 hours time. I'll never change.

B_Rabbit

I still have 300 words left, as well as bibliography. Never again am I leaving it this late.

poundapunnet

Ugh, still 500 words left and the shagging bibliography. And now I've run out of tobacco. Kill me

WilyCoyote

I tend to procrastinate and then go mad to catch up. Have missed probably 6 flights. I realize that adrenalin is a drug and I guess I'm an adrenalin junkie.
But that is me.
My wife often gets on to me about it but it's in one ear and out the other. She likes to be everywhere early but I make sure that she doesn't break protocol.