<p>So who else here writes better under pressure? I know I can't be the only one.</p>
<p>Right now, I'm working on 3 three-page papers due tomorrow. Two are pretty easy, though. I'll most likely get one done tonight. Get the other 3/4s done and the other half way done. Why? I work better under pressure, in other words: time restraints.</p>
<p>This has kind of been a habit of mine for a few years now, I do what I can the night before and wake up early in the morning to finish it up. Luckily my printer hasn't failed on me yet and either way I can just print it at school. </p>
<p>This also worked when I had to write a speech for my sister's Sweet Sixteen, my mom had been nagging me to write one down for weeks. Of course I waited until the party actually began to start writing it, it was pretty damn good in my opinion, well I'm only saying it because she cried, haha</p>
<p>So who else works better under pressure? I'm actually trying to kill this "habit" as it'll probably screw me over in college.</p>
<p>Nah, I like taking my time and mulling over every idea I get before writing it down. If you asked me to write an essay in a relatively short time frame (SATs and AP English exams), I could do it well enough. But I’d still rather brainstorm a little more.</p>
<p>I hear ya. I had an AP Lit essay due last tues and I wrote it at 5 am the morning it was due, lol. I got an A on it too.</p>
<p>My best AP Lit essays this year and honors american lit essays last year were all done at 12 am in under 3 hours. My teachers thought they were fantastic.</p>
<p>Guess that tells a lot.</p>
<p>I write better under pressure. I’m more time-efficient too - if I start a paper 2 hours before it’s due I take 2 hours to do it, if I start 24 hours before I’ll take 5-6 hours to do it.</p>
<p>Haha, I could never write decently under pressure. The sad part is that, my printer ALWAYS fails on me at the last minute.The thing for me is that I tend to get catch up in sentence structure, vocabulary, and making everything sound sophisticated so much that I’m forced to ditch all that under time restraints and I end up with something that sounds stupid.</p>
<p>But truthfully, 9 out of 10 times if I’m truly interested in the topic and have solid ideas, then I could manage pull it off in little time (of course, in a school setting, that seldom happens). </p>
<p>Strange enough, I’m working an essay due for tomorrow and simultaneously studying for AP Biology - we’ll see how this works out.</p>
<p>It depends on the essay really. If I’m writing a “bad” essay (SAT essays are the epitome of the “bad” essay) then I can ONLY do it under pressure, otherwise I overcomplicate sentences and the logic is more web-like than arrow-like. On “good” essays though (e.g. The College Essay, or my coursework on James Joyce), I can’t do it without lots and lots of time.</p>
<p>I think that people who write well under pressure can write better with more time. </p>
<p>College will make you realize that you’re not such a hot shot. :)</p>
<p>Correction-</p>
<p>I can ONLY write under pressure.</p>
<p>This is amazing – my printer failed on me again :(… I hate having to email people and asking them to print stuff out for me – ugh.</p>