I seem to find myself waiting to do everything @ the last minute. (I wonder why cough whitey cough) ANYWAY. The Ironic thing is, I guess everyone else in my class does the same thing? I just got my grade for my Writing for Multimedia class back 5 mins ago, for working 2 hours on this 10 page script. (Whitey can tell you how back I suck at writing) I accomplished a 96%. I’m starting to come to a conclusion, the more work I do the lower the grade. It sounds stupid but maybe cause I put to much thought into it…? :dunno:
Yeah, I kinda felt that way in school. I never studied in highschool and BS’ed my way through everything and came out ok (I think I had a 3.5 or 3.6) and then I got to college and my first two years were a shock because I had to learn to study. But then I realized you just have to study smart, not really hard or for a long time. I just used my time wisely. I would take really good notes in class, did the readings sometimes but hardly ever and would just take really good notes on the discussions about the chapters/assignments. If I knew an assignment would be collected I would do it, but otherwise I would let it go. I actually ended up getting better grades my Junior and Senior years in college after I figured this out instead of spending so much time studying/working. I think I ended with like a 3.7 overall and a 3.8 in my major and I probably worked a lot less than my friends. Most of the stuff you learn in college you are retaught when you start working again anyways.
I don’t have to tell anyone about your writing. They are experiencing it first hand.
cough
I was the same way through school. I would wait until the last week on major papers, and wait until last minute for test’s and what not.
Well I didn’t wait until the last minute for stuff, sometimes I would just get things done ahead of time, but I would just not spend a ton of time on stuff. Some kids would stress out just because a prof. assigned an essay and they would go balistic and start researching and doing all of this work to make their essays really long and “professional”. But the whole point of the assignment was to show what you had learned in class and usually you could tell how the prof. wanted the paper to be set up, so as long as you made sense in your paper and presented the information the way the prof. wanted it, there was no reason for research and all of that junk. People would spend twice the amount of time that I did on a paper and then get pissed when I got a higher grade (I tended to be the curve buster) but if you just do the minimum amount of work but present it correctly, you will always save time and get a good grade.
no
because college is bull shit. you dont learn anything, they wanna see if you can bull shit…the white collar working force is filled with the best bull shitters in the world.
but they get paid.
college blows. i love getting 5 days to write a 15 page paper SINGLE SPACED. no teacher talks to any other teacher so you might have 2 15 page papers due the same week. i hate it. i hate it. i hate it. but i love it
yup… dont seem right does it?
i completed my senior project for my computer operating systems concepts class and i spent 2 weeks on it and finished it 15 mins before class started. other students worked on it the entire semester and mine was better than most and was one of 6 out of 18 that got an A for it. 2 weeks may seem like plenty of time to do it but believe me i was sweatin balls cuz i thought it was getting maybe a C. my binder was literally 4 inches thick when i turned it in plus i had to have an actual working network that i built myself and programmed myself and had to present to the class. it was very intense and for me not being a programmer of any sort it was a pain in the ass…if anyone is a computer programmer out there i know your pain…i’d get road blocks and sit there for hours upon hours trying to figure out what was wrong and it usually was because i missed a fuckin parenthesis or some dumb shit like that
but i never procrastinated in high school but like you i uh cough hmm cough became one
I got so bad procrastinating that I would never do anything unless it was the day it was due
I’d bs papers, homework and do my studying all the morning before the class
all I have to say is FUCK college. I’d never been so stressed out in my life. Now I work my ass off at a blue collar job and I couldn’t be happier.
Most generalized statement ever. Tell me how you can bullshit the stresses in a piece of machinery. If you put that 2+2=5, it’s wrong and you’ll fail. I guarantee that if I didn’t go to college I couldn’t (most of the time, not always) do my job. Bullshit isn’t going to get my job done.
And to answer the original question, no I usually didn’t proscrastinate in college. I can’t stand having things hanging over my head that need to be done. If it’s something that doesn’t HAVE to be done, then it’s a different story. 
Actually when you lose 4 years of your life and spend a crap load of money, it does seem right that I make more money than someone who lived in their parent’s basement for free for 4 years while they worked ad McDonalds
I found myself doing that a lot the first 2 years or so…then I “matured” I guess and was always doing things well in advance. I was less worried about hanging out with friends and more focused on doing well in school. All that while working 40-48 hours a week.
As for the whole school being BS…I can somewhat agree. I think there are a lot of classes that you have to take that add stress and debt that don’t mean a damn thing. Nothing pissed me off more than when I had one of my hardest classes that didn’t even relate to my major. For example I had a history of art class at Pitt that was a bitch. The exams were essay and fill in the blank not multiple choice…all that where there were like 30 pieces of art to know every damn thing about and you never knew what was going to be on the test. Studying for a week for a class you give two shits less about when you have more important stuff to do fuckin sucked. But oh well it is what it is I guess.
I feel your pain there. I seriously spent more time studying for my humanities (art history) and biblical history classes than I spent studying for my business/accounting courses. The worst part was, I acutally enjoyed my business classes and dreaded the art classes. It was dumb because I would learn the pieces of art/music/architecture for the test and then completely wipe them out of my mind. Looking back though, college was not as bad as it seemed at the time. I would go back and study and do papers again if it meant to more bills, 8-6 work days and 1 hour commutes to go 10 miles to the city.
because college is bull shit. you dont learn anything, they wanna see if you can bull shit…the white collar working force is filled with the best bull shitters in the world.
Yet another brilliant comment. Amazing insight.
LOL…I had to summer online classes. I did each ENTIRE class in the last 48 hours before the due date. I got an ‘A’ in each class. 
Needless to say I work best under TIGHT deadlines and pressure.
CCAC classes saved me a lot of stress (and work!) too. I took 3 classes during the summer at CCAC. I think it was astronomy and biology so that I didn’t have to take the hard science classes at a real school and then economics cause the econ teacher at my college didn’t speak hardly any english. Saved me a lot of time and money, since I took these classes and had some credits from taking calculus in highschool, I was able to graduate a semester early and save a ton of money. However, I don’t consider CCAC “college” 