[winterglen]

I didn't have classes this week because of Thanksgiving. I should have used that time to write my final paper and work on the site, but I didn't. I procrastinated. I am still procrastinating.

I just can't get myself to buckle down and do the work. I keep telling myself that if I don't, it will only mean more work at the end of the term, but that doesn't seem to give me enough incentive. Everything just looks so big and so difficult.

I don't want to scramble and cram everything in at the last minute, but it looks like that's what's going to happen no matter what I do. I feel exhausted thinking about how much work I'll have to do at the end of the term and how stressed I'll be: I'll make even more stupid mistakes and I'll get a low grade. And it's entirely my fault, because I didn't plan better.

[Perna]

You still have this weekend. Don't think about the total and the end prize, think about what bit you are going to do today. Think up your opening thesis paragraph for your paper and then you will get interested in it like one does when figures out how to do a math problem. What is your paper on? Does the site go with it?

I just got my next paper assigned last Friday and we are starting the statistics portion of the course and the paper has to be a real paper but about a particular spreadsheet (8000+ records, all messed up :-) and I have to write about that spreadsheet's information. It has taken me all week but I have figured out how to proceed and if I can hold together my "story" writing and my facts/figures/charts/graphs learning and not explode I'll have it made!

[JoyDivision7680]

I'm in the same situation. Tomorrow, for example, I gonna have 3 test papers, and I studied for none. I do this everytime, postponing things. I was supposed to call an ex-classmate of mine since June - still undone. I'm never in the mood for doing those things, never.