The Last Bastion: Procrastination Analysis

All my life I have been a lazy person, doing just enough to get by. Most of the time, in high school, I was content with just a “C”. The only time I wasn’t, was if it was a class I liked, and I paid attention to. If this was the case, I could have received a 99% on a test and been dissatisfied. But, for the rest of my classes, which were most of my classes, that I didn’t like, I never paid attention to or did homework, and I still managed to do well on tests. So basically I didn’t do anything except take tests and I still got satisfactory grades. In school I was so lazy that there could have been a project due worth about 20% of the final grade and I still wouldn’t do it.

When writing my papers in English I was never sure what topic, I wanted to write about. I rotated between two, one being “The Mistreatment of Animals in Zoos” and the second and my main topic being “Is College Worth the Cost.” When writing these papers, I noticed something about myself. I had grown as a writer compared to when I first walked into English 1100, I had some writing experience but not much my grammar lacked and I was the queen of sentence fragments. Throughout the semester during English 1100, my writing skills improved. From learning, how to format works cited page correctly to learning how to analyze a source. My writing improved wonders with each paper. My paper I, I struggled extremely with formatting issues and how to

The Ted Talk “Inside The Mind of A Master Procrastination,” by Tim Urban, explain how he claims that everyone procrastinates even if they don't know it. He uses evidence to prove his point such, as his personal experience and refers back to his blog to prove his idea. He claims that there are two types of precaution when there is a short-term effect of procrastination and a long-term of procrastination.

Throughout my writing process there are a various amount of steps I do to perfect it. Generally coming up with the idea is the most difficult part of any writing, even now, it is difficult to get started with the essay. Once I dive in though, it gets quite easier. Procrastination is a problem that i can not seem to shake. I will attempt to sit down, but as soon as the littlest thing pops up, I will usually be distracted and lose my train of thought. I attempt to run through the whole essay in my head before I start just to get a proper idea of how it will be structured.

So a couple of weeks ago on a Wednesday night, I had just finished my homework. Which lead me to think about the fact that I was able to successfully procrastinate on a project for three weeks finishing it the night before it was due. So I grabbed a celebratory box of doughnuts from the kitchen then I sat down on my couch. Let me tell you, I was TOTALLY prepared to watch keeping up with the Kardashians until I fell into a sugar coma. Yeaaahh, plot twist! About halfway through my second doughnut, a Victoria's Secret commercial came on. There stood women in beautiful underwear with flat stomachs and tan skin. I looked at my celebratory box of doughnuts - my coffee speckled skin, and the pouch the fat around my waist that some idiot decided to name "love handles" when there was nothing to love about them. Needless to say, I was disappointed. I was disappointed because I believed that this was society's way of saying "you're not good enough" Within the recent years the controversy upon what the average human being should look like, what they should weigh, and how they should act has grown due to the influence of

One of the biggest problems in modern day society is procrastination. Procrastination is delaying a task until the very last minute to try to avoid doing it. In the passage “Structured Procrastination,” the author describes how to harmlessly procrastinate. In the passage “A Stitch in Time,” the author describes how horrible procrastination is. These are the different takes on the habit.

American playwright Maxwell Anderson once stated in his essay, Off Broadway, that, “the story of a play must be a conflict, and specifically, a conflict between the forces of good and evil within a single person.” The most memorable characters in literature have dealt with struggles both internal and external, in terms of either heroic or cowardly means. In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the title character uses either procrastination or impulse to deal with conflicts resulting in devastating consequences. The protagonist’s urge to act upon impulse and the resulting deadly outcomes speaks to Hamlet’s lack of forethought and even his fleeting madness. In contrast, Hamlet’s continued procrastination draws on many of his conflicts eventually resulting in an overabundance of spilled blood.

Procrastination is the act or habit of putting tasks on hold. It is the unnecessary postponement of starting or finishing an undertaking, which eventually leads to distress (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984). The intentional delay of due tasks is very common among students and lately, it has become prevalent in college settings (Rabin, Fogel & Nutter-Upham, 2011).

When talking about this quarter I feel I have demonstrated perseverance. The reason I feel that way is I have a huge procrastination problem. I find myself often pushing things off until the last minute. This is a very unhealthy and trouble causing issue. I feel that I have demonstrated perseverance in the way I'm trying to knock the habit of procrastination.For instance, so far in history I haven't been letting things get overdue. Although, I still seem to wait until the day something is due to do it, I'm trying to change. I feel that this demonstrates perseverance because although this is hard for me, I keep trying. I really do hope to get rid of this habit soon.

Procrastination: to be slow or late about doing something that should be done; to delay doing something until a later time because you don’t want to do it because you are lazy, etc. (Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary). First off I’d like to give this book a thumbs up on calling out on every excuse we make or everything we say to talk ourselves out of doing something we need to get done right now. I also loved the comics throughout the chapters. At first when I flipped through the book I read all the comics first. I related to them so much, especially the ones with the reading and having to try and cram a lot of reading in and the ones about working better under pressure. In the introduction I took an immediate

Theresa, Have you reached out to any of the VA approved caregivers ? I haven’t done anything because you said to wait until Debbie returned from vacation. Debbie gave me the impression before she left that the plan was acceptable ? I’m 100% good to go with the proposed schedule I laid out...It makes the most sense for Dad right now. I would be more than happy to get these appointments scheduled if neither of you have the time,but I feel like we’re back in the same mode we were in the beginning...sort of procrastinating . I don’t care if you pick one and get them started next week ,they’re all pretty much the same and these are all sanctioned by the VA so they should be okay.... Our procrastination is what cost Dad the monthly payments

Delay, idling, loafing, dabbling, dilly-dallying. No matter how people would like to define procrastination, high school and college students seem to be the exact definition. Students will somehow find a way to turn in a paper in the final minutes before they’re due. Many of them will bullshit the paper and write non-sense in an unorganized way. Rarely will someone create a miraculous paper in the final hours. Some people will fine papers online and not stress about the final countdown, but others will use their final hours to find dozens of quotes online and paste them to their paper (I do not advise doing either). Unfortunately, I can fall into the hands of procrastination myself, and in this very situation I will label myself a semi-procrastinator.

Many people believe that procrastination is derived completely from laziness but the culprit could be multiple things, including perfectionism. This can become a huge problem for perfectionists, especially perfectionist students. They most likely will overthink projects and put off getting started because they’re afraid they won’t be able to make them as perfect as they want them to be. Luckily this is a common issue among students and there are many different techniques to cope with it. Students can overcome procrastination due to perfectionism by setting S.M.A.R.T goals, creating detailed to-do lists, and by just getting started.

“I’ll do it tomorrow.” In these tough times, I love to tell myself that while staring at the pile of books that was meant to be my work. Not only that they were overdue but I completely missed the deadline by miles. I find things even more amusing, spending the time I don’t have on things I don’t have to do well not right away, not as urgent as the work due last term.

Procrastination in writing is very common and can result in a substantial loss of pretentiously valuable time. There are many reasons that explain why people procrastinate but these reasons are not always the same from one individual to another. A wide variety of psychological aspects result in procrastination, one of which is anxiety. Everyone exercises procrastination at one point or another in their life, however, most people do not know the cause of this action, or lackthereof.