I've had this huge Bible project due for the past month, and the teacher even looked at my notes and was like "This will be good, just change some of this and it'll be perfect."

Well, I uploaded everything onto a server (so I could make the corrections at home), but the server happens to be down right now. The whole thing is due in a couple hours, and I'm very much out-of-luck. Having had a fever for the past week, and my printer being dead, this is all coming together very inconveniently. (This thing is worth somewhere around 50% of my grade for this semester x_x) (I'm an idiot)

Ever have those times where you put something off, put something off, and then when it was due you totally weren't ready?

I'm in that sort of situation right now with exams.

That happened to me at the end of this past fall semester. I had this assignment in a class (basically had to write our own version of mspaint in java) that was worth 10%. I kept putting it off because I was more worried about my other classes (it was due during midterm weeks, and the class it was for also had a midterm). Eventually a day or two before it was due I realized there was no possible way I would have enough time to write it. I was doing well in the class though, and it was only 10%, so I still ended up with a decent mark.

Still, that was the first time I procrastinated and didn't end up doing whatever I was putting off, it sucked.

I can't work without being under pressure. I do my best work when I procrastinate. My final for Comp II was a 25 page memoir on my life. We had to cover about 8 topics in the paper and link them all together into one massive paper. It was due last Wednesday so I told myself I'd do it Monday...that didn't happen. Tuesday I goofed off until about 11pm. Then from 11 - 6am I did the paper. I got an A. Yay!

Never.

Ask me in 3 hours when I take my last final exam... I may sing a different tune.

Seems to happen everytime I have something due, and I never learn my lesson. Sod's law, I guess.

This has never happened to me. I always magically pull something out of my arse just in time to save the day.

I do have another 17 pages worth of papers to write in the next ten days before school ends though, so there's a chance I could blow it this time.

Somehow when I think of failed procrastination I get the impression of someone trying very hard to do something besides learning/their project but somehow they end up with being done a few days before it's due.

Because I really failed my procrastination with the final exam I took today, which was a piece of cake, although I didn't do very much for it. I guess I didn't do enough nothing.

hehehehehe, Impi's right.

always do. Actually just finished a presentation 5 minutes ago that was like that. Completely winged it.

durr. Don't speak in complete sentence. Leave out important words. Like subject.

Hmm, perhaps always but I usually leave everything to the last spot. And whine about it later.

Where is your god now? He appears to have deserted you.

It might be the quips you made about 911.

Actually, I prayed about it this morning, and my English teacher gave me a free period to finish it up and work on the presentation. I pulled the entire project off with eloquent perfection. Thanks for asking though, Rob.

You pray about projects?

That sounds kind of selfish. Shouldn't you be praying about starving children or something?

Rob, I pray for a lot of situations throughout my day. You're just trolling.

My procrastination has only gotten me in trouble a few times. Normally I just end up losing a bunch of sleep, but my work is good.

i oversleep a lot

No I'm not.

Praying, which more than likely doesn't do any good anyways, for yourself is kind of selfish. Especially considering the state of THINGS nowadays.

But really, whens the last time THINKING really hard about something to yourself did anything?

It's just speaking to god. Leave it alone.

What's to say he doesn't? They're not mutually exclusive, y'know?

Back on topic:

I had a midterm essay due, and naturally I wait until the night before it was due to begin working on it. At 7:30 the next morning I was finishing the paper when I realized I had no paper for my printer. I compressed the files, and e-mailed them to myself, went to the school library, only to discover the computers at the library didn't have software to decompress it. After downloading a program to decompress my files, I realized class had started 10 minutes ago, I frantically double-click on my essay, and what do you know? Apparently the Microsoft Word on the school's computer is a different version than the one from my house, and it couldn't recognize the document...

So what ended up happening? Zero? 10% penalty? Understanding prof?

Automatic 25% reduction for not having it turned in at the beginning of class. That professor didn't like me because I argued with her about some of the "facts" she was presenting about the Cold War.

Wow, that sucks.

I had 15 online quizzes to do for a course, each worth 1% each. I did one of them. They were so incredibly easy, and took so little time, that it actually added to the procrastination. "It'll be easy enough just to do each one right before it's due," I would tell myself. This was at a point when I was really down, and didn't give a rat's arse about school anymore. I fully expected to get a mark somewhere in the 20's in this course. The real kicker is that my final grade was in the low 40's, after also procrastinating on the final essay, creating the most sorry piece of work I've ever done on the night before it was due. If I had devoted just 5 minutes a week to doing those stupid quizzes, I could have passed the course. I fully acknowledge that I made a supremely idiotic move.