Leaving tasks to the last minute

Aineoil · 12-01-2014 10:24pm

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!

[Deleted User] · 12-01-2014 10:27pm

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

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danslevent · 12-01-2014 10:31pm

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.

[Deleted User] · 12-01-2014 10:34pm

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.

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Dupont · 12-01-2014 10:47pm

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 · 12-01-2014 11:05pm

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

chrissb8 · 12-01-2014 11:31pm

MadYaker wrote: »

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

Pfft that is 2-3 hours work!

chrissb8 · 12-01-2014 11:34pm

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 · 12-01-2014 11:36pm

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 · 12-01-2014 11:37pm

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

Ericaa · 12-01-2014 11:38pm

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

JumpShivers · 13-01-2014 12:58am

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 · 13-01-2014 1:00am

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

poundapunnet · 13-01-2014 1:06am

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 · 13-01-2014 2:02am

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!

Type "Screw Flanders" 375 times and you're done.

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black_frosch · 13-01-2014 2:05am

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 · 13-01-2014 2:11am

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

B_Rabbit · 13-01-2014 2:18am

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

poundapunnet · 13-01-2014 2:19am

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

WilyCoyote · 13-01-2014 2:51am

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.

Kevwoody · 13-01-2014 3:22am

On my odd day off work, the missus leaves me a list of housework longer than her face when I get home pissed on a Saturday night.
I get up to help her get the kids and herself out the door, then spend most of the day in bed with some DVDs and a box of Kleenex pullin the stomach outta meself.
Then around an hour before she gets home a mad, frantic dash around the house usually sorts out most of the housework, and if she smells a rat I just say 'oh yea I got called into work at 12'

Ericaa · 13-01-2014 7:28am

Ericaa wrote: »

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

Ended up only getting one done, oh well :P

FairytaleGirl · 13-01-2014 9:32am

There's a reason university library's are open 24hours! *

So you can go in at 6am, crack out your essay and hand it in for 12!

*In N.Ireland anyways

B_Rabbit · 13-01-2014 9:36am

I'm on the bus on the way to college, trying to think of another 200 words, and put together a bibliography.

irish_goat · 13-01-2014 9:38am

I always considered it a great achievement if I had an assignment handed in over an hour before the due time.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 13-01-2014 12:16pm

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

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

It went fantastically. Leaving stuff to the last minute FTW.

Voodoomelon · 13-01-2014 12:40pm

I was the worst for this back in college, me and a mate would leave stuff to the absolute final hour and still get much the same marks as everyone else, if not more. I used to study from 3-4am onwards for an exam the same day, the only study I could ever do.

One chap in the class was legendary for pulling off impossible workloads, it culminated in forth year where he didn't attend a single class for the last 36 hours of the year and completed over 90% of his thesis in that time. He got it bound on the morning it was due in and handed it in with hours to spare. He got very good marks too.

Highflyer13 · 22-11-2014 8:06pm

2 assignments consisting of a grand total of 6500 words due for Monday night. In absolute panic mode but after reading this thread I don't feel so bad. Stocked up with Red Bull and coffee so let the games begin.:pac:

Leaving tasks to the last minute

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