let's talk about REAL solutions to procrastination

<p>The only absolute solution is to learn the hard way.
I don't know when it will hit you, but it hit me after my freshman year of high school. Procrastinating just progressively pushes the work back further and further to the point that it is literally undoable. I crammed for hours on end before finals, all to receive a C+ as my highest grade and a D+ as my lowest. That time wasted cannot be recovered.
You will keep suffering until you realize that work needs to get done when it needs to get done.
I promise you, school is actually far easier when assignments are completed productively.</p>

<p>"-Remind yourself how much you like to learn and that what you are doing is, at least at a fundamental level, interesting</p>

<p>Stopped reading right there."</p>

<p>Don't know if you stopped in a good way or a bad way, but let's just say I'm an idealist, and if I find what I'm doing interesting, I'm just slightly more inclined to do it. Slightly. Just a tad.</p>

<p>maybe what claysoul is suggesting is to find the good bits, the interesting bits, in what you're doing. One who finds math/science insufferable (or one who finds English Lit so) can find something positive in those disciplines. </p>

<p>For example, altho an English Lit person is not going to (love to ) apply math theorems, the ordered rigorous thinking to break down and simplify the math can be a great skill in composing a piece of writing. Tho I do not construct bridges or conduct experiments for a living, I still know the relationship between Force, Mass and acceleration. The most eye opening and mind bending thing I ever encountered is the the law entropy, which can be applied to EVERYTHING!</p>

<p>Lit/philosophy majors: entropy is COOL stuff!</p>

<p>Science/Math/Biz majors: "The world is made of stories, not atoms "
Atlanta</a> Counseling and Therapy Services: Wisdom Quote: Stories, Not Atoms</p>

<p>One solution is to buy a mac. Those computers suck so much that you'll give up and go do your HW.</p>

<p>^lies, sheed. i'm currently in the midst of a several-year love affair with mine.</p>

<p>not that i'm one to talk about how to put an end to procrastination, but...
-get out of the environment where you procrastinate-- it makes it less habitual. i go to the living room, but sometimes even the library--- there's nothing else to do but my work there.
-work with your momentum. if i have a free block after a class, i'm in a "getting things done" mindset and i do as much work as i can. but then i come home and waste hours puttering around.
-personally, i start with the easy stuff, it feels like i'm able to cross things off.</p>

<p>Find a dream school that you're really passionate about. It justifies every HW assignment.</p>

<p>get off CC! delete AIM icon, and hide/put AIM in a hidden location..if u can, just delete the software! </p>

<p>get off the laptop/desktop pc while studying unless u urgently need it! </p>

<p>and u aren't stopping bcoz, most likely ur grades aren't showing that u actually procrastinated....so, ur mind is always urging u to do stuffs that you aren't supposed to.</p>

<p>"Find a dream school that you're really passionate about. It justifies every HW assignment."</p>

<p>Yeah but what do you do once you're at that dream school...</p>

<p>I agree with railcgun: just do it as soon as you get home, or stay after school and do it there, or do it in the library... Whatever setting you can find that makes you want to do your homework as soon as you get home. Then you can stay up as late as you want doing what you want with no stress about having to finish a paper.</p>

<p>I highly discourage the rewards system - it never works. Once I've done an hour of work, and I take a break, that breaks turns into 3 hours because I feel like I've done an hour of work and that is more than I usually do before doing 3 hours of surfing procrastinaton.</p>

<p>In college what a lot of us like to do is meet up for lunch and do our homework in the dining hall (for foreign language), or meet up in the computer lab in our dorm and do CS homework there. For some reason, when you're in a computer lab with a bunch of your dormmates, it's much easier to end your little breaks and go back to working - why would you be in the lab if you could be in your cozy room procrastinating? And you don't want to leave the lab until your work is done. So you end up just doing it.</p>

<p>I also really like the rusoboy23 method: I do that all the time! Turn on the TV, sit on your bed, and have your homework on the bed too. When there's a commercial you'll feel guilty and do your homework, but you also get to relax at the same time. Unfortunately this method doesn't work well with subbed anime or with laptops/surfing.</p>

<p>@above post: lol, story of my life</p>

<p>i wouldn't say a group study works because then you'll get distracted.</p>

<p>yeah, turn off your internet for about three hours every night and do homework. force yourself not to go on it. start your homework at 4 every day or something and then say you can go on the computer afterwards.</p>

<p>If there's work that I can do without my computer than I shut it off because it takes me almost 10 minutes to restart it so I don't have the patience to do that until my work is done. (Even if a piece of an assignment that may need a computer such a research paper has a portion that can be done without the computer for just an hour then I turn off the computer.)</p>

<p>first goal: get off this website</p>

<p>I don't see procrastination as a problem unless it seriously detracts from your capacity for learning or the quality of your work. If it's neither, then I like snuggling in my bed with my laptop playing games that max out my outdated CPU and typing random posts on CC.</p>

<p>make a schedule with every small thing in it.
One for each day, from the time you get back from school to the time you sleep, including breaks. Set it up the week before from Mon-Fri, and then follow it strictly.
If you feel its hard to follow some part of the schedule, change it up so its not to extreme, but keep it so that you study for most of the day. </p>

<p>Eventually, your habit of AIM, cc, etc. will go away, and a new one will emerge : studying.
It's just a matter of doing it for a 2 weeks, and then you get use to it.</p>

<p>don't listen to music</p>

<p>See what I mean? Olivia hates study groups but study groups are my SAVIOR! We cannot tell you what YOU need to do. The only garunteed thing to work is YOUR OWN WILL POWER!</p>

<p>I highly agree with whoever said do homework once you get home from school. I couldn't do that, but when I was in high school, I would stay at school and do my homework, then go home. </p>

<p>College didn't make me learn to procrastinate more. I had SO MUCH time on my hands that I just couldn't spend all of it messing around. I did procrastinate, but it is just so much better and easier to get work done here in college than in HS. At least for me.</p>

<p>I had a teacher who talked a lot about inertia. Objects in motion stay in motion unless acted upon by an external force. Objects at rest stay at rest until acted upon. </p>

<p>If you start off playing AIM and stuff, you'll be at rest - so you'll tend to stay at rest. Of course, the force required to start moving might be on your discipline capacities. </p>

<p>So perhaps the best policy is to use the velocity provided by school, and just keep going after school. That way you won't have to apply any force and you won't stop. </p>

<p>v = FT/M</p>

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have friends over and keep each other on track.

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hahahahaha, no way!!</p>

<p>Works for me.</p>

<p>i have the same problem. I still procrastinate by going on AIM or Facebook, but when i really need to get work done, I go to a public place and do work.</p>

<p>I go to a coffee shop or a cafe, and dont bring my laptop. I just bring a notepad and do everything in it, then retype everything. It may seem like a waste of time, but it actually saves so much time. </p>

<p>OR.</p>

<p>Work with friends and plan an activity to do after you are all done. No one wants to be the one holding the group back from going out or watching a movie.</p>