Throughout my undergrad, I got into the terrible habit of leaving assignments until the last minute. Well not extremely last minute, but I'd usually start and finish something the day before it was due.
I decided to change that this year when I started my Masters.
Currently I don't have a job outside of school, so I only really have classes 4 days a week for 2 and a half hours each day. There are a lot of readings, but I've managed to stay on top of those, and do all my assignments for the upcoming week. I was supposed to have something due tomorrow, Tuesday and Thursday. But the assignments for tomorrow and Thursday were extended by the instructor for some reason. But I decided to get them done for this week anyway. I see it as having a more relaxing vacation during my spring break next week, as those two assignments will be due shortly after classes resume.
I'm proud of myself for staying on the ball. It definitely alleviates the stress a bit.
While I see status updates on facebook of my classmates stressing the night before the assignment is due, I can sit back and relax.
Of course, now I'm debating whether I should hand these things in early or not. I don't want to look like a brown-noser in front of my classmates, they already seem to dislike me. But oh well, I'm trying to prove to myself that I can get through this program and not be totally stressed out about it. It's been working so far with separating my course load into 3 semesters as opposed to two. I may have been able to pull off taking 5 courses each semester in my undergrad, but there's just so much that needs to get done now even with just 4 courses, that I figured it was best to lessen my load. I took 3 courses last semester, and then after this semester I'll only have to take 3 more, for a total of 10. And I'll be finished!
I'm finally starting to feel a little better today now that I finished my last assignment that I set out to do today. I even had the time to watch a movie afterwards so I decided on "Breaking Dawn Pt 1" as part of the Twilight series. It was actually one of the better movies in that series.
Anyway now I'm just rambling and it's getting late, so I'm off to bed.
Night folks!
I am trying to study for a midterm exam right now, but am so tired. The woman in my room in Barry House who speaks all her thought without filtering them woke me at several points through the night. I slept the entire morning away at the Women's Centre, and have been dragging for the rest of the day.
ReplyDeleteMuch as I want to get an early start on things, I find barriers to my efforts often. I have a meeting with one of the girls at barry house tomorrow morning about housing, I feel so betrayed by that group of women; I thought they had my back, I thought they understood my crisis. But protocol and rules win out again
Daphne
Sorry to hear you're going through a hard time. Hopefully they understand your crisis after talking with them.
DeleteThere is a group of young men who meet at the Women's Centre once a month. They invited me to sit in with them to give a woman's perspective on their feminist discussion. When they heard about my plight, one of them offered his place. After a couple of email exchanges, his roommates are fine with it, so after next week I can move in with them. The loss will be on Barry House; I have helped them in a number of ways, and I have at times served the role of mentor to one or another of the younger women there.
DeleteThis post reminded me of a conversation I had with my daughter this weekend. She is a professional procrastinator, but this year, college has sort of matured her in ways she was trying to explain.
ReplyDeleteShe's learned what you've learned which is: waiting until the last minute sucks, lol.
Congrats on 'staying on the ball' and Happy Valentine's Day to you!
I was definitely a professional procrastinator during my first 4 years of University. Maybe because I had it so easy in high school. I was able to study the night before major tests and exams, sometimes even just a couple hours before and come out with over a 90. Not because the teacher was easy, but because I had an awesome memory. But it was hard to break of that habit even as the course content got a lot harder throughout my undergrad.
DeleteI guess taking a year off after I graduated to decide my next step is really what I needed.
Happy Belated Valentines day to you too!
Keeping up is hard enough, congrats on staying ahead of the work. Stressing about schoolwork sucks!
ReplyDeleteI don't think handing it in early is necessary, unless you get extra points for doing so and not doing so, won't antagonize others and also gives you the opportunity to review it, if there is any need for that or changes.
I've just finished my 3rd major test and Tues will mark the 4th class major test. I'm feeling very accomplished so far.
Our spring break won't be for a few more weeks. How did you get yours so early? We started classes on Jan 17th.
Well one of the teachers had said last week that she wouldn't mind if someone had handed in their work early, because it was originally due that day anyway, and I guess she wanted something to do.
DeleteAs for our Spring break, it's usually at the end of February for us, always has been. I went back to classes on January 4th. And I'll be done classes on April 6th. I also won't have any exams in any of my courses so I'll be done then as well.