things you've been doing to avoid working on your essays

College Essays
41

<p>FIFA 09. Facebook.</p>

42

<p>facebook, cc, online shopping, reading 5 different books, talking on the phone, laundry, eating, oh my i'm doomed. I have only written one out of three. AHHH!</p>

43

<p>oh and I decided today not to apply to princeton because</p>

<p>"If their topics don't suit me, then it's probably not a good school for me"</p>

<p>lol I am going to start new club "Laziness without boarders" or something.</p>

44

<p>I can't believe it... I keep checking CC every five minutes or so (I know, I'm officially addicted), reading other essays, giving feedback but completely neglecting my OWN work.</p>

<p>And one of my friends just wrote back telling me he got the impression of me being a monkey after reading my personal essay... At least I can still laugh about it (although it really isn't a funny ha-ha, more a psychotic ha-ha).</p>

<p>I'm stuck.</p>

45

<p>facebook
video games
aim
sleeping
scratching myself
shopping
haha</p>

46

<p>Bremsespor, we're totally in the same boat! :B</p>

<p>I've been eating way too much lately with all the stress
I've been writing letters to old friends, eating popcorn my grandma sent me ( a huge tin can, lol )
and just trying to study</p>

47

<p>wow I thought I was the only one this lazy and prone to avoidance...</p>

<p>in addition to the typical suspects (facebook, cc, etc.) I watched the entire season of Freaks and Geeks on youtube. good stuff... just not my essays. hah and I'm rewatching them now.</p>

<p>happy procrastinating!</p>

48

<p>GAH. writing essays when you have the stomach flu. Not a good idea. Trust me on this.</p>

49

<p>I finally realized the source my procrastination problem. I don't actually know what to say to people who have the power to decide the next four years (and more) of my life.</p>

50

<p>Guitar Hero</p>

51

<p>everything. driving, gaming, sleeping, living.....just not the essays.....</p>

52

<p>Wii fit! =]</p>

53

<p>ncaa 09, and playing around with my xm radio</p>

54

<p>I've been cleaning my room...</p>

<p>I'm running out of things to do instead of my essays!</p>

55

<p>Practicing my piano</p>

56

<p>Watching movies, finding books from my childhood and fawning over those, re-discovering my favorite TV shows, browsing CC and posting in this thread.</p>

57

<p>"I finally realized the source my procrastination problem. I don't actually know what to say to people who have the power to decide the next four years (and more) of my life."</p>

<p>So true! I mean I think about it and for me to write an essay that allows me to stand out among 30 or 40 thousand other people....yeah this is going to take a while. Only problem is, I don't have a while.</p>

58

<p>thinking of what to write has made me avoid working on them.</p>

59

<p>My Common App pretty much sums up my efforts:</p>

<p>"You have been signed out due to inactivity."</p>

60

<p>Listening to Santogold.
Watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.</p>