Lesson #1 in Life:Do NOT Procrastinate

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Ok, so I received this Scholar Selection from a school where they ask me to fill an early action form. (no fees, no essay, scholarship consideration, yadi yadi ya...) So I started to fill out the app 2 weeks ago, thinking that I'll be sending them on time. However, I procrastinated and start doing the final touch today - which is the deadline ><. And I just figured out that I needed the counselor letter of rec and the transcript - it said inside a page call:"instructions" :( [no wonder it felt weird]</p>

<p>Thank god that it wasn't one of the schools in my official list. Nevertheless, I hope to share this experience with you guys. So yes, work hard, study hard and you'll get the outcome you want - just don't procrastinate.</p>

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<p>It’s difficult to not procrastinate:/ Thanks for the advice though:></p>

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<p>Procrastination is especially bad when you’ve killed someone and you’re procrastinating cleaning up after yourself. Leaving a dead body around is a big no-no, don’t do it.</p>

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<p>^I’ll keep that one in mind lol</p>

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<p>You have to know the parameters of your procrastination. I always read through rubrics, syllabi, apps the day I get them. Then I know just how lazy I can be :).</p>

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<p>I want the procrastination to end…</p>

<p>But I just can’t; I’m the laziest guy I know. And the worst part is I’m not doing anything productive or even exciting when I decide I’m not going to study or finish off applications. Usually it’s just mindless clicking TRYING to find something to justify procrastination…I’ve got it really bad =(.</p>

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<p>…i love these threads :-D</p>

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<p>clean up clean up everybody do your share</p>

<p>i find it a lot easier to work after cleaning up your work space</p>

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<p>^I do that too!</p>

<p>But the cleaning up process is actually part of my procrastination…</p>

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<p>^Lol same here.</p>

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<p>Does cleaning really help you focus? I never clean:/ haha
Maybe I should.</p>

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<p>It doesn’t work for me lol…</p>

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<p>Yeah… I meant to send apps last weekend. Then I moved it to this Friday. Then I moved it to next weekend. Now I am aiming for Wednesday. =O</p>

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<p>too troublesome
i will read this thread later…</p>

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<p>I read an article somewhere that if you pick your biggest task and put it at the top of your to-do list, you’ll do everything else, and do it well, to avoid confronting that one task. For me, cleaning my room (which is an absolute mess) is that thing. If I convince myself it absolutely must, must be done by, say, 10 pm, I’ll do absolutely all of my homework–including everything I know is due later in the week. Is my room clean? Nope. But I usually get my stuff done on time.</p>

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<p>Procrastination sucks.</p>

<p>You still have to do the work, and your quality of work is usually worse. Might as well do it early…but I have trouble following my own advice.</p>

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<p>I have a horrible memory AND I’m lazy. :(</p>

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<p>The deadline for a program I’m applying to was today. I submitted my application at 11:30 last night. The school had already received everything else they needed from me, and the only thing I had to do was fill out the application, but I pushed it off until last night.</p>

<p>I ended up having to write a small personal statement essay in 3ish hours. If I had to write a 250 work paper for school I could probably get it done relatively quickly, but because this was for college, it required a little more effort. I think I work better under stress because what I wrote was pretty damn good (not just my opinion, I got some people to read it as I was writing it). </p>

<p>However, I still have at least 4 more regular decision applications to work on, and I can just see my self still working on them in early January :/</p>