The End of the Semester All-Nighters

So I'm trying to finish a paper right now that is due later in the day today. I'm writing my Multicultural Pedagogical Project for one of my education classes. Should I have done this paper earlier? You bet! But procrastination is one of my lovable qualities. Is anyone else trying to finish a project or paper?

I'm trying to find out how to make a good intro paragraph for my paper which was due 3 hours ago. It's such a bitch when I know what I want for the body of the essay but I can't get started until I know how to introduce it.

working on study guides for my finals, it's almost 4:30 in the AM here on the east coast. Thankfully my professors make class optional during dead week. I have the Deadly Premonition ER on my laptop, Brad and Ryan have kept me strong during this all nighter

@MiniPato said:

I'm trying to find out how to make a good intro paragraph for my paper which was due 3 hours ago. It's such a bitch when I know what I want for the body of the essay but I can't get started until I know how to introduce it.

I tend to write the body of the paper first. If I understand what I want to write about then I can finally come up with a thesis and a good way to introduce it.

@gaminghooligan said:

working on study guides for my finals, it's almost 4:30 in the AM here on the east coast. Thankfully my professors make class optional during dead week. I have the Deadly Premonition ER on my laptop, Brad and Ryan have kept me strong during this all nighter

Sleeping will help you out a lot too. Remember to get plenty of sleep for those finals :) East Coast, best coast right?

Yeah, I'm working on a paper right now (1:20am). It's only due tomorrow at 5:00pm but I'd really like to get it done before I go to bed. Luckily, I am almost done, and just being lazy. Nothing like limping over the finish line....

@JOURN3Y: haha for sure man, and sleep... sleep is for the weak. (kidding of course)

I find my work to be best when I do it last minute, at least with papers. I don't believe in cramming sessions or all nighters, they don't work for me so I try to just do most of the work during the year, show up to everything and then read up on a few things before exams since I'm pretty good at remembering things I hear compared to when I just read them.

Yeah, two. But Planetside 2 has a knack for making me not give a fuck.

Yep. Working on a paper for Intro to Writing in the Sciences right now. Pretty boring so instead of writing it I'm browsing the forums.

I'm a pro procrastinator. Right now I'm finishing up the powerpoint for my group presentation on the US State Department's possible future policies tomorrow. I'm both the Secretary of State and the one doing the most presenting. I've still gotta finish my actual speech. But, lucky me no finals. I've just got two essays due next week and another two draft essays I have to finalise. Busy week.

This thread needs more terrible, terrible dubstep to wake us up.

Nope, but I'm gonna be cramming for my three-part computer final all of next week.

I'm more or less reading up on and doing assignments for two entire courses over the weekend. Doing nothing for 2 months was worth it! :D

@TobbRobb said:

I'm more or less reading up on and doing assignments for two entire courses over the weekend. Doing nothing for 2 months was worth it! :D

Gonna be doing a lot of this, too. I pretty much did fuck-all for almost a month's worth of classes.

Completely worth it.

Pushing things to the last minute nearly cost me my college career. Only broke the habit through sheer force.

Godspeed, duders.

I did, that's why I got pretty much all C's in everything but my major. There was nothing more frustrating than the hours between 4 and 8am when time just blinks by. I can still taste the Redbull and cigarettes in the cold night air, yuck!

My entire academic career has been defined by procrastination. While I do quite well at at it, I came across a couple quotes on the subject a while back that made me seriously reconsider my life. I still procrastinate, of course, but now I do so with more existentialist dread. I can't recall where these are from exactly, but I'm sure you can Google it.

On Procrastinators:

“rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible”

On Procrastination itself:

“Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”

I have a paper due today. I wrote ten pages for it and somehow (I mean, I probably fucked up, but still) it didn't save so I have to start it all over again. On top of that, I have my first final in a few hours.

Yay!

@MarkWahlberg said:

My entire academic career has been defined by procrastination. While I do quite well at at it, I came across a couple quotes on the subject a while back that made me seriously reconsider my life. I still procrastinate, of course, but now I do so with more existentialist dread. I can't recall where these are from exactly, but I'm sure you can Google it.

On Procrastinators:

“rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible”

On Procrastination itself:

“Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”

Brilliant and completely true quotes.

On topic, yes I've procrastinated a lot over the semester but I didn't have to pull any all-nighters for finals. That said, I did pull an all-nighter to finish Jane Eyre and write a paper on it, and followed that up with a panel discussion of the paper the next morning. With no sleep whatsoever. And got an A-.

@MarkWahlberg said:

On Procrastinators:

“rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible”

I think that's from a Cracked article, but I don't know where to find it.

I tried Googling it, but got a Wikipedia page about making my dick bigger. Go figure.

As a Classics student, I feel some of you could use some encouragement from the great Vergil: "Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuuabit", "Perhaps someday we will remember even these trials with pleasure." I find it's a VERY relevant quote to studying...