Perfecting active avoidance
It's the last push before finals and I have absolutely perfected the art of active avoidance. I tell myself every quarter and pretty much my entire academic career that I will not procrastinate, but alas it comes down to the last week and I have a 20 paper to finish and I am on page 3. This is a fantastic improvement considering I was only on page one a week ago and have been staring at a blank screen worrying for the 7 weeks before that. Okay so this is only for one class and none of my other homework is suffering but I think this particular one is proving so difficult because I have worked it up so much in my head. The paper is worth 60% of my grade and the teacher has given very little guidance. I have a good outline and the topic is something I'm interested in so now I just need to overcome the block the is hampering my writing. Perhaps I should just bite the bullet and wait until next Saturday and Sunday to write and stop worrying since it is due on the 13th and when push comes to shove I excel under that kind of pressure. I was just hoping to avoid the ulcer that has a tendency to accompany the stress!Posted by Jess | Sunday, March 05, 2006
I find it helpfull for me to just kinda babble about the subject until I get into some sort of flow on what I am writing about.. All of the sudden, out comes a paper. ;) Of course, you need to find cheap ways of tossing in references, but that is generally later while you're in the editing phase of things. You'll do great, Jess. You always do! :)
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