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[piplover]

12 page paper due Friday and I have one page done.  Yes, yes, I know, same song and dance!  The only thing is, every paper I do this to, hold off until the last minute, I get an A on, so who am I to argue results?  The only problem is that I get all stressed out while I'm trying to write the bloody thing and find myself distracted by, oh, I don't know, writing about writing the paper on LJ or reading fanfic when I know perfectly well I need to concentrate on the damn thing. 

*Focus, Piplover, foucs!*

Do any of my fellow students find themselves doing this?  And if so, do you have any tricks to get your mind to focus?  I've been particularly scattered this last paper because finals are in less than two weeks and the shit is starting to hit the fan.  Meep! 

Ok, back to work.

*Head desk*

Comments

[dreamflower]

Well, it's been more than 30 years, but that's certainly the way *I* did it most of the time!

[mik100.livejournal.com]

I'm not doing it now, but that used to be the way I did mine too! Although, I've never had to do one quite that long. What subject are you taking?

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I think that's how most students do it, but, honestly, I'm like Pippin at a feast, trying to shove everything into my mouth at once! Too much going on to take in! Agghh!

[piplover.livejournal.com]

It's a special interest class, rather like an internship, for soc. The paper is on societal expectations of gender and beauty and the problems this leads to. Agghh!

[mik100.livejournal.com]

oh my god, I think my brain just exploded!

Good Luck!

[piplover.livejournal.com]

Lol! Yeah, that's about my reaction. Thanks!

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

Switch of the internet and take the laptop / pen and paper / notebook / chalk and slate into another room. Be it the kitchen. The dining room. The sweet little coffee shop at the end of your street. If you are in a different environment you are outside of what your mind sees as the fanfic/lj/play environment.

[seize.livejournal.com]

haha twelve page paper due at 12:30 TODAY and I have four pages and I'ts 4:34 AM and I'm going to fucking KILL myself

I will *never* get back to IGC at this rate...

[piplover.livejournal.com]

That is a great idea. I think I'll have to do that.

[piplover.livejournal.com]

You win! Hahahaha! Good luck on your paper! I think I may be in the same boat come Friday if I don't get my butt in gear!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I'm exactly the same way with papers (and other projects). I finally gave up stressing too much over not getting started sooner and just acknowledged that I'm a last minute person. I got As on nearly everything, and the things I didn't get As on, would not have been improved by starting earlier.

One thing that I always did, though, was make sure that I knew the due dates for all assignments, so that if there was going to be a day or a weekend when more than one thing was due, I prioritized and figured out how long, realistically, each paper/project would take so that I could be sure to get started early enough to finish everything.

Good luck with the paper!