<p>I can't start on my assignments until 30 minutes before class starts (cuz I daydream SO MUCH ABOUT STUPID PARROTS), so I just get the adrenaline rush to start WORKING on my assignment just before it starts and I walk into class to turn it in 45 minutes late without penalty and then daydream through the rest of class while trying to read through my math homework.</p>
<p>OMG WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME</p>
<p>Typical attributes of a person with a severe lack of brain matter.</p>
<p>I’d say it’s simply because there’s no reason for you to do otherwise. What I mean is, what you’re doing is working, and apparently allows you to leisurely spend your time. If your life depended on finishing an assignment, that would be a different story. But there’s no real deadline/requirement/impetus to force you to finish. In the end, what works out is what is done. Doing homework at home 10 hours before the deadline, vs. 5 minutes before the deadline, really comes down to one question: Are you able to turn it in on time? And in your case, with the latter, yes.</p>
<p>Now, if there was a penalty for turning the assignment 45 minutes late or whatever, you would surely adjust to that. But, for now, there’s no need to. This is what you/your brain has (sub)consciously figured out.</p>
<p>I think that you’ve turned yourself into a major procrastinator. You finished assignments by a certain deadline, missed the deadline once but still was fine, and now you knew that you could get away with doing a project at a later time. And this has been going on and on until now your mind thinks that it can do a project 30 mins before class and still be alright.</p>
<p>My only advice is to work your way out of this procrastination. It’s going to take a lot of willpower, but you’re going to have to re-train yourself to work if you ever want to fix this.</p>
<p>On a side note…why on earth do you daydream about parrots?!</p>
<p>lol good points.</p>
<p>it’s not just parrots i daydream about - it’s EVERY animal that I think of as unusually intelligent for their family or class, so it includes manta rays, corvids, bears, and others too.</p>
<p>I am the same way… Literally do no homework half the time.</p>