Therefore, I'm a professional procrastinator.
You can give me work, a job. I may hate it, but I'll still follow a worthy time-management schedule for productivity's sake. If I love it, there will be even less chance of my path diverting.
Give me school-related tasks...homework, studying, group projects, assigned reading...and I will do anything, ANYTHING, to avoid doing it as long as possible.
Good example:
I had a paper due on Monday.
I intended to get back to school on Sunday to work on it from 7 or so, up until it was finished. I didn't anticipate it going beyond a few hours worth of work.
What did I do instead?
- I updated my resume.
- I updated my LinkedIn profile.
- I took a phonecall from my boyfriend.
- I got locked out of my dorm room, while my roommate slept inside...she sleeps like the dead. It took an hour or so to wake her up and get back inside.
- I chatted with a friend on Facebook.
- I worked more on my LinkedIn profile.
- I "reread" the material that the paper was on.
- I found excuses to take more notes to "prepare" for the paper.
Then, when all other options were exhausted...I wrote.
It took a short period of time, once I actually wrangled my focus and ran out of other things to do.
I think this is a fairly natural occurrence to most members of the college-aged population; even respectable, hard-working, punctual students find a million and one different things to do other than their homework.
There's no real lesson to this post, just some musing over a phenomena that has no true explanation. With that in mind, I should go to homework...after I clean my dorm room, sit on Facebook for four hours, chat with someone on the phone, run to the store, hit the drive-through, watch Glee, and...well, you get the idea.
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