<p>Guys, I set out to procrastinate until I could procrastinate no more. And that's just what I did. Creating this thread is just one last attempt at trying to buy myself some time. Well, the post for this thread is almost done, andddd well......I guess it's time to study now. </p>
<p>How many of you people have been making a sport out of procrastination these past few weeks? I can tell you that <em>I</em> have. And you know what else? I'm gonna have a very hearty laugh when I get my GPA for this semester. LOL.</p>
<p>Eh, it’s dead week… I’ve found that no matter what we tell ourselves, it just turns into a mini vacation for most of the week and then studying begins during the second half…</p>
<p>Not necessarily. I’m procrastinating studying for finals… by doing all the papers that are due on Tuesday and Friday of dead week. The key to making procrastination work for you is to find something even more important that you should be doing. Thus, by procrastinating the Other More Important Thing, your brain will think, “well I should try to fake being productive” and will start doing the Not As Important Thing. So if you can find a task more important than finals (difficult, I do realize) and believe that is really is more important, you’ll get studying done.</p>
<p>This is how you can clean your entire apartment to spotlessness when you should really be working on that 20-page essay due the next day :D</p>
<p>seriously, can anyone pin down the reason we procrastinate; even though some of us really do love studying the things we are studying, when it comes to the tests, there’s this avoidance feeling creeping up on you every single time</p>
<p>This, exactly. I love the topic of my research paper, but what can I say? I’m a procrastinator, always have been, probably always will. I need that adrenaline rush to kick me into gear. But at the same time, I know that “avoidance feeling creeping up on you” syndrome all too well and the guilt. But hey, at least I’m switching off between researching and procrastinating. It’s a step in the right direction.</p>
<p>It also doesn’t help my procrastination that with the exception of this paper–due on Monday–that all of my finals are on Thursday or Friday…hum diddly doo. Still, I feel guilty when everyone else is posting on FB about ripping their souls apart studying…and I’m on youtube.</p>
<p>It’s 0614h now and I’ve been sitting in this same chair in the library attempting to study for the past 8 hours… still nothing much done. Damn Airbears needs to block YouTube. (And VLC. Lol.)</p>
<p>I don’t know why everything seems so much more interesting during dead week…
My room is spotless, I am having strong urge to cook…
My bookcase and food is all organized</p>
<p>Yet my stack of reading materials and printout sit untouched</p>
<p>haha my friend asked if I started studying…and I just said naaahhh I have monday. All the people around her turned and looked at me like I was crazy…What’s with all these berkeley folks holing themselves up in the libraries?!</p>
<p>but all this just sucks. I know what I’m doing, and that I should stop (should be solving differential equations right about now…), but I just can’t. And I won’t be able to until it’s 5 hours before my final and I’m going Oh crap panic. *** WAS I THINKING!!! The cycle never ends.</p>
<p>And every time I see all these people studying I feel like I should be too. But there’s this bug in the corner of my head telling me I don’t need to since I did better than the study crazy people on my midterms (gap was significantly smaller after I realized this the first midterm .__.). All the people in my anthro class have this huge stack of flashcards and whatnot and were testing each other even in the few minutes before a review session…ARRGGGHHHH.</p>
<p>omg im so effed for everything : [ i have a midterm in 3 hours! and i started studying for it last night which i didnt get very much done lol. f.ck. i hate this. i just want it to be over.</p>
<p>pretty standard state of mind during final weeks. hang in there berklebear. you will survive. eventually you will be walking at graduation with a Cal degree.</p>
<p>It may not be the fun experience of high school where you probably aced everything, had a balanced life and were top dog, but on the other hand it is analogous to being the top athlete on a high school team compared to playing professional level sports - the competition and the standard of play is incredibly higher, but just being on the pro team is a major accomplishment, even if you don’t win the top trophies or get your picture in the sports section any more.</p>