well in grade 6 i had a huge ass math booklet that i had 4-5 months to do and i didn't touch it until a week after it was due. i had to do all the pages in one night. fuuck that sucked haha
there was also a similar thing but it was in grade 3, and i thought i had to repeat grade 3 if i didn't do it so i worked my ass off. i got some weird bump on my finger from writing so much and it's there to this day o-o
Drivers Ed. homework I needed to have done. Two hours of work I did the night before. Would've been a solid waste of $500 to not hand it in and fail that course.
@StarFoxA: With all due respect sir, you are FUUUUUUUCKEEEED! Although saying that you may be one of those genius types who can pull that off. I have an exam this morning (in 2 and a half hours) and i've been working like shit for the last 2 days. Learnt about 250 cases, which hurts my brain. Best news is however, that straight after the exam i'm hitting the pub with half my course :D. do you have any similar anfter exam plans? all the best by the way!
I had a 10 page paper due at 9:30 for my 500-level economics course a few weeks back. I started it at about 3:00 and finished it in about four or five hours and went to class on no sleep. Wound up with a 90% on it.
Even now, I am putting off prepping a presentation I have in my Russian course at 10:30 (it's 3:00 right now).
Uh where do I start. I guess the funniest was in the 6th grade. We had to do a presentation on a book we chose ourselves. We were supposed to craft something and reenact events from the book in front of the class. The morning it was do I still haven't read anything. I grabbed the first book I saw, and read the summery on the back. It was some book about bullfighting, so for my presentation I became a matador with the tissue off the teacher's desk.
" I had a 10 page paper due at 9:30 for my 500-level economics course a few weeks back. I started it at about 3:00 and finished it in about four or five hours and went to class on no sleep. Wound up with a 90% on it. Even now, I am putting off prepping a presentation I have in my Russian course at 10:30 (it's 3:00 right now). "
Nice! I admire high end procrastination when I see it and, sir, I'm seeing it right now!
I am currently "studying" electrical engineering at university, but I have not been to a single lecture nor looked at any of my books in the last 3 months (ie the entire semester). I have a test in exactly 24 hours from now, and I only just started studying right now. I need to cover an entire semester's worth of material that I have never seen before about some complicated bullshit in around 4 hours, and then I'll go to sleep for 6~8 hours, and when I wake up I probably won't be in the mood for studying. I have another test the day after tomorrow as well, in which case I'll have even less time to cover an entire semester's material on another class. This exact same thing happened last week as well with 2 tests.
I usually pull an all nighter once a semester, but I'm kinda getting worse. Last week I attempted an all nighter to finish a pseudo Iphone app that takes your blood pressure. At least it produced something. I'm just glad that this semester is over now.
@dudeglove: For the Russian presentation? It's on the film, "Battleship Potemkin" but I have to speak in Russian so that requires a little bit more prep than normal.
Just a few weeks ago actually. Had a university Math assignment needing to be handed in, hadn't started and it was due in 2 days, did half of it and then jumped on the PS3 or GiantBomb for the remainder of the two nights that I could do it. Ended up handing it in late + 50% done. So, so horrible... and the weird thing is, I just started to not care... my life's going in a reeeaallly bad direction. Thanks Gaming! :)
I had a huge science fair project assigned at the beginning of the year that wasn't due till sometime in February. I didn't start my poster thing until literally the night before it was due.
@c1337us: I should've gotten mine 3 years ago, only just did do so last week.
As for everything else...every single assignment/homework since year 9 of high school? Hell, i have an assignment and research project i should be working on right now. Does procrastinating on games count? Cause i have a whole bunch of games i should be playing, but instead i'm sitting around doing jack all.
" @c1337us: I've been procrastinating mine for two years now. Perhaps I'll get it this autumn. "
Do it. I always told myself I didn't need it because I could rely on public transport just fine. But now that I have had them for 5 years whenever I am without my car I feel lost because I can't go somewhere whenever I want on a whim. Like right now while I am staying at my sister house. It sucks.
I waited to do my criminology essay until after the due date. 2000 word essay and I waited until the due date, got all the books that were finally returned and then wrote it that night and copped the penalty. Still got 82%
I don't think I've ever done an assignment, essay or presentation any more than 24 hours before it's due in. I had 2 engineering assignments due today and did them both between 4am and 12pm. Fun times.
I was doing a distance course and kept putting off going to the class' website because it's terribly designed. I put it off so much that I missed the midterm exam because I didn't know when it was. In fact, it was only 8 hours before the final exam that I actually signed in. I got a 36 in the course based on those 8 hours of studying and only doing the final.
This other time I had a research paper due the next day, but I couldn't start it right away because I had an exam that morning and had to a mandatory lab about 4 hours later. I stayed up all night and started/finished my paper. I had another exam about 3 hours after that was due. Since I walk about 2KM to school I was super tiered when I got home (4 trips to between school and home since my last sleep). Awake for 36 hours, asleep for 16. Those were actually my 2 best exam marks that semester.
Actually back in elementary and middle school I always left my science fair projects till the last minute. I never got less than a 92% and only once did I take more than 1 day. That was because I had to build a model airplane to do the aerodynamics tests and it takes time for the stuff to dry. I did one in under 12 hours once.
Signing up for college classes this past semester. I had something like 5 months to do it and didn't have a definitive schedule until the end of the first week of the semester.
10th grade a paper that i knew would have to be long I started early got maybe two pages in and ended up not touching it again until the day before it was due, it ended up being 23 pages, but still got an A that was fun! But really that paper wasn't too difficult, I was comparing the Roman empire with the Mongolian Empire and all I really needed to do was list facts in paragraph format.
My sophomore year in college, I decided to change my topic for a paper two days before it was due. Did some research then, and the next day looked at that research and found absolutely nothing useful. So I spent the day before my paper was due researching, I don't think I actually got around to writing my paper until like 9 o'clock at night, and stayed up till 5 am writing it. I got about 6 pages into it and had to stop and sleep because I could barely focus anymore, by the way the paper was due in 6 hours and had to be submitted via the internet.
The next morning I wake up around 9 am and say OK I need to write a conclusion and do a bibliography (thank you easy bib); however I am horrible with conclusion so it took me forever to write it and as I did that I noticed that I needed to write more for some other things and did. Next thing I noticed it was that it was 11:30 I was missing the class this paper was due in and the paper needed to be submitted by the beginning of class on line. Thankfully I was just about done all in all the paper was submitted one hour late and I got an 85% on it, the only problems my teacher had with it was I needed a couple more sources for each viewpoint, because apparently there was a minimum requirement.
This was one of my hardest papers since they gave us no guidelines and were very unspecific in what exactly we needed to accomplish. We also had to make our topics so narrow that it was quite difficult to find research but I still did well so YAY!!
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