Procrastination Works For Me

Procrastination has been a huge part of my life when it comes to school. If it's a project, paper, studying, or just a worksheet, I will leave it until Sunday night. I know that isn't the best thing to do, but hey, a lot of other people do it too! When the new school year comes around, I literally say to myself, "I'm not going to procrastinate this year; I'm going to do a little bit of work each night." That never happened, and this year I am okay with it for the reason that procrastination actually works for me, and I just realized that this year.

The reason I hold off with work until Sunday is because I cannot keep attention to it if it's any day before. Call it a minor form of ADD?, but I find little excuses for myself not to do work, whether it's, "I'm hungry," to "I need to pet my dog." Tons of people say to go in a quiet room with no distractions, however the distractions are in my head most of the time. I start to think of different things to do and my mind drifts away. I try to overcome this bad habit, but I fail most of the time. But, is this habit "bad" for me personally?

When it comes to Sunday night, I usually do all of my homework without a problem. The reason is that I know I am on a limited time limit now so I have tonight or no other night to do homework. This puts pressure on me, sometimes a lot, however this pressure and sometimes stress forces me to focus. I've talked to some other people at school and they tell me they have the same ideals: that they work better under pressure. I know I'm not alone with this weird mind-set, but I also know not everyone can pull this off.

Parents and teachers frown upon this because they say the quality of work decreases because of the lessened time. However, this is never a big problem for me, even if I have to write a 300+ page paper that night. Maybe I don't have time to over-analyze myself. Even though this works to an extent, this 'system' is horrible for studying. I need time to study thoroughly, and for my Accounting Exam tomorrow, I only have about 3 hours to study (and not all of that time I will be studying.) I don't think I can ever change this study format easily because it's part of the way I've been thinking for about 10 years. Even though people see procrastinating bad, I think the pressure helps me.