Procrastination...nearing...the...end

So this week has been pretty hellashish to say the least so far. After studying hard for my spanish exam and taking it on monday, I got out and instantly started preparing for my other exams. I finished my phil essay and turned it in yesterday. I need to add one small part to my cover letter so that I mention all of my assignments that I put into my portfolio, than I'm done. I spent the majority of yesterday studying and preparing for my history exam on friday, which I'm really nervous about. It's a lot of details to remember and I'm trying to prepare some outlines for the questions. I hope I do good, cause our professor is a really hard grader and doesn't curve anything. Today will be kind of hectic once I start getting a move on things. I need to move out friday morning, meaning that I need to start getting all the small shit out of my room, so that tomorrow night I can just move all the big stuff and be out of here by 9 in the morning on friday before my last exams. Doing this, amidst studying is going to be rough. But hopefully I can hurry through it all. Hopefully. I truly apologize for all the days that I miss on the blog. I'm not used to keeping an online journal of any sort and it tends to slip my mind on the tasks that I need to complete during the day. But anyways...the week is nearly half way over and I'm almost out of here!

Procrastination....YIPE!

OH MY GOD. I totally spaced out about this this past week. I just got so caught up on the end of the semester and exams that I totally forgot about my blog. I got a bit busy and had to go home this friday and move most of my stuff out of my room so I don't have to worry about it when I actually fully have to move out. I apologize for missing everything, but here's a quick overview. I've studied for my spanish exam on and off throughout the weekend to prepare for my exam monday. I finished my cover letter and gathered together all my work to put into my portfolio. All I need is to figure out how to do do it with part of my assignments single spaced and some of them double spaced. Obvoiusly I've already started the move out process, and tried to break it down to make it easier for me to do. All in all I'm staying pretty prepared for everything next week. Today all I need to finish is my philosophy essay to turn it in to my teacher tomorrow, or sometime before the due date. So hopefully all goes well this next and final week of classes. I hope that I'm prepared for my exam. A quick overview of my next week. I hope to start preparing for my history exam a little throughout the week. I'll probably start tomorrow and maybe do one of the three questions I need to prepare for each day. Than I'll start studying the id questions amidst these questions as well. I'll also start studying for my ma exam, probably starting on tuesday to prepare for it by thursday. And my psych exam will be no bother at all and I feel I'm already prepared for it. Only two I need to worry about are history and media arts, just as soon as I finish this portfolio, phil essay, and spanish exam. Here's to the next week. Cheers

Procrastination...skip skip do

Wow I'm terrible at keeping a constant post. Often days I postpone this till night, but somehow expect that I actually did it earlier that day when I get to it. Apparently, sometimes I don't do it and I apologize for that. Tuesday was mostly spent practicing for my Spanish oral exam and meeting with my partner I had to present with. This I was really upset with, because I knew more of the grammar and vocab than she did. She knew practically nothing, and when we "met" to "practice" it was actually me telling her what to do and what to say when we present. So...yesterday came and we got a pretty easy skit to do when we picked at random. We even had extra time than just 5 minutes to prepare for it too...and yet somehow she still managed to fuck it up. Not only did she not say what she was supposed to, but ended up going off on random tangents in the conversation. I mostly had to improve a lot of shit and try to make-up for her shittiness...thus making myself look bad. The thing that really got to me is that...not only did she only say about 5-7 lines for an entire 5 minute skit, but since I was making up for her lack of knowledge I looked bad in the process and ended up getting a lower grade than her!!! It's like I PRACTICED, STUDIED, AND PREPARED MYSELF AND HER FOR THIS!!! But I digress...after that I was sort of in a bad mood all day and tried to just chill out and get some other work done. In the end I forgot about this assignment, and my week just keeps getting worse and worse. Hopefully this seemingly unfortunate events don't continue into next week when I'll need all the luck I can get. Hopefully I can get myself moving this early afternoon to accomplish some things before my class tonight. Laters for now.

Procrastination...almost finished

Well, today was a more relaxed day for me. I had no classes I needed to attend, and took the time to catch up on sleep and finish off some work. I finished the rough draft to my philosophy paper and had my conference with my teacher. I've been trying to maintain contact with my spanish partner, amidst brushing up on my old spanish. I hope she gets back to me soon so that I know whether or not to rigorously study the sample topics we got for our oral on wednesday. Also, we are supposed to meet tomorrow, but she has not told me when or where yet either...so I'm waiting on that too. Otherwise, I'm feeling pretty good. My 360 broke last week and I feel I should use that as a sign to not mess around with games. This way I will hopefully break the tendency to play the game while bored, instead of using that down time to study or accomplish something useful for any one of my classes. Well, I'm off to continue studying spanish as I just took a small break to watch Heroes. I'll catch ya tomorrow.

Procrastination...relaxed or lazy

Well, so far I seem to be keeping on the schedule that I planned for myself and detailed in my blog yesterday. I have basically completed a rough draft of my cover letter, only having to piece the two separate pieces together before Tuesday. Today I finished my half of my spanish comp and sent it to my partner...who has not yet sent me her part. In fact, after half contacting me today, I haven't heard from her since. I felt good that I stayed on top of that part at least. After "relaxing" but most likely "slacking off" for FAR too long, I started my Philosophy paper. Luckily, it is not a very long paper and the rough draft is due tomorrow for when I go meet with my professor. I feel that I have completed a good portion of what I wanted to say, and only need to add a conclusion and one more quote from an ereserve article we read a while back. I also feel I need to add another paragraph or two to further explain my point in more detail, but as I read through it now I feel that I am making a good case for my argument. But for now, my room is boiling and I am going to take a small break to let my body temperature get back down to normal. Ha ha. Till tomorrow

Procrastination...no breathing

Well I apologize for missing my post yesterday, but it was quite the long and stressful day. First, my anxiety has been giving me some slight problems with sleeping, and I have not been able to get my normal amount of sleep. I woke up feeling like a zombie, and pretty much functioned like that for most of the day. By the time I got out of class, all I could think about was sleep. However, I quickly turned to homework so that I could finish up all the menial stuff I had to do, before I had to start the bigger more pressing matters. I first started with my history quiz, of which I normally do not do well on. I flipped through the book and rushed to find the answers as best I could from my knowledge and from the book itself. Though I have read, the questions seemed to focus on small details which were hard to remember. I finished with 5 minutes left to discover I got a 95 on it and I sat there and smiled. About a second later I hopped onto my long spanish assignment, though due sunday, and quickly finished it to open up the rest of my weekend. Later my friends came, and it was just chaos for the rest of the night. Today was basically similar to friday but without the classes. I have started the drafting of my cover letter, but have been struggling with finding the right way to write it. I hope to finish most of it before tomorrow, so that I may spend tomorrow writing a rough draft for my phil term paper. Likewise I hope to finish that tomorrow so that I may spend the rest of the week till wednesday studying for my spanish oral exam. Now is the time to focus and stay on track. Breathe in and here we go.

PROCRASTINATING

I apologize for not having wrote anything since monday. Basically my Spanish teacher screwed us over by barely letting us know about our huge assignments that are due next week. Thus in order to give me enough time on the weekend to do and study my spanish, I tried to finish all my other assignments for the week early. These past few days have been pretty hectic and just homework filled. I've been finishing mostly everything pretty early, but I still keep postponing some of the bigger tasks. I hope that I'll get my shit together soon. I still feel this void in me. Like something is missing, and though I keep trying it just seems to stick. I've been having mad anxiety dreams and have this empty anxious feeling of waiting for something, but there is nothing to wait for. I hope it's just these final weeks before exams that is really pressing me. There is so much for me to still do, and I still have little motivation to do it...AHHHH.

PRO crastination

Well today has been a slow day homework wise. So I was able to accomplish my tasks fairly early and easily. I've been just slowly inching my way towards exams. Trying to relax as much as I can before I really can't. It's still waiting in me to finally motivate myself to do stuff that I need to. But I want to push it to tomorrow. I have no rush, and well...it's just been a rough couple of days. Just sort of anxious, lost and confused as always. Plus more personal matters as one would expect. So I've been a little distracted with myself...but I"ll eventually get over it. Anyways...tomorrow is when shit gets rough.

My Generalized Writing Process Broken Down

As I look back on my writing process...I notice a familiar pattern that isn't wholly correct and leaves much room for improvement. As I edit for content throughout, I lead myself to believe that further editing is not necessary. I often neglect this, and this is a reckless mistake that will eventually be noticed at some point in my career. Though I do not plan on being a professional writer per say, I would still like to be eloquent in my speech and in any papers I may choose to do. As a child I never saw myself as any sort of writer. In fact I was probably the worst at grammar and speech at any young ages if compared to my peers. My Uncle would try to correct, but we all knew that I was doomed for english and luckily accelerated in science and math. I had always thought I would be a mathmatician of some sort, and would at least only gain enough command of the english language to get myself by in day to day life. However, as I went through English AP classes in high school, my teachers basically forced and scared me into actual writing. The best of my class usually wound up with C's and we were left to be as grandiose as possible, though we hardly knew what the hell we were saying. After that and meshing into a normal English class senior year, I began to understand and comprehend proper writing and soon writing was an easy task. Essays written during class were astonishing and later this quick style perfected in me. College continued this and soon I felt good and confident in my essays. However good they may appear to be...a lot of times it all falls short and I know I could do better. Though some of my sentences may seem impressive, the overall content tends to lack. I now know that I need to improve how I argue points. Most of my analysis leaves little proof of my actual point, and ends up being strictly opinions. Likewise my thoughts get disjointed, which would normally be caught upon later thorough reviews and edits. I never hand my writing to my friends or people I know out of fear of pure criticism. Though I know I'm not in any way...unintelligent, I feel that maybe my friends would look down on my grammar or syntax. Or laugh at a small mistake. But I shouldn't be afraid of a little criticism, if in the end it does help my writing abilities. I feel that for any essay I write, I should have my peers read it and comment for me. Any help...well helps. Likewise I should do my essays and other projects earlier so that I can eventually edit this myself with enough time to turn it in and such. These are the two key events that I must implement in order to better my writing.

Procrastinatingggg...

Well...I'm surprisingly tired and a bit anxious all at once. Luckily today I got a lot of work done. Finished my psych reading for the week, read my history for tomorrow, read and did my philosophy for tomorrow, and did my spanish journal from 3 til like 8. Took a while...but I took short breaks in between and got it all done. Than I've just been relaxing, playing games, watching tv...reading some more. Still...glad I got it all done...but this anxious energy in me is keeping me from looking at the bigger picture. That is to say...the exams and portfolios and final essays. Kind of sucky...but whatevers. I guess I'll get it all done in the next weeks. Oh and by the way...I'm still avoiding looking at my colleges.

Procrastinating...doh...

Days pass by too quickly sometimes. I hate getting up late...but it was basically necessary. Well to me it was beyond necessary to get some rest and sleep away something I caused myself the night before...ha ha. Well enough about that...after getting up and showering and getting myself to finally go out and get food, since I oddly didn't feel like eating much (uh). Afterwards I headed to the GUILD movie theater to watch a movie for my ma class that I need to write a paper on. I got there early and just read, to enlighten myself. Watched the movie, headed back to campus and than started doing my history homework. Did all but like 10 pages of reading which I'll finish tomorrow. Took a nap...than it was Saturday night. So hw didn't exist. Ahhhh sadly...well I don't believe I have much to do for monday. Shouldn't take me too long. Until than...laters.

Procrastinating!!!!

Oh my my my. Where have I been lately??? Procrastinating??? Well...actually...I've been almost doing quite the opposite. I've been doing all my homework early and actually starting early on some other things. In fact...I've sort of been busy with school work and just reading, that I've been spacing out the smaller things. My bad...but here I am finally. Its a weekend, and I'm ready for the next week. I have one small journal, and have to go see a show tomorrow. Have to do some reading by next friday, but I'm almost done. I have a little bit of History reading, but not much pressure...but I'll still do it tomorrow sometime. All in all, I feel very productive. Hopefully this keeps up when exams roll around...

Procrastinating...meh

So today was a pretty laxed day for me. After getting off my classes I took a small break and relaxed. Than I did some spanish assignments as well as other things I needed to get done. Later I did some psych reading amongst taking breaks in between each of my assignments. I felt I accomplished quite a bit today and got to enjoy myself in the process as well. All in all I felt it was a good productive day. There aren't many other assignments I need to do currently, as this is the calm before the storm of exams...so if anything, I should use this time to relax before the shit hits the fan and I become consumed by study.

Procrastinating...still

So...apparently I completely spaced out doing one last night. In fact I didn't accomplish anything yesterday work wise. However, I did feel more productive than I have in a while. I was out and about, went rock climbing, walked around, caught up with old friends and generally did rather than did not. I felt good about that and though I may have missed the media arts event for this weekend, I assume there will still be a few more before the semester ends, meaning I'll still have time to do it. I've already started working my way towards finding more events anyways and my teacher congratulated me on how well my sequence analysis project was for the class and how it was one of the best one's in class. This came as quite a shock as I did not really start it till the day before it was due, but I did fully dedicate myself to the project. This boosts my confidence in that maybe I can actually become a film editor as I have been dreaming about. Though my laziness counteracts this dream and often time instills fear in me, I feel more confident that I can change and can do what I want to do. So as for today, I slept in due to another late night. But after eating, I instantly started my homework and knocked out two assignments for tomorrow. I have only one more pressing assignment due tomorrow which I will do here shortly. But I'm off for now...until tomorrow and the beginning of another week...ugggghhh

Procrastination...oops!

So yeah...for a friday I don't ever feel that it's procrastinating cause it's a friday and it's like "What Homework do I have to do???...Do I even have homework???" Well that was basically my mentality yesterday as you can tell as I forgot to post anything. So I'll count this post as yesterday's and do one later tonight probably explaining how I didn't do much today. Sort of woke up kind of late so far and am not getting off to a quick good start and my room is a mess. I feel that should be priority one. The other priority is finding out about my media arts event and hopefully there will still be time tomorrow to do it cause today is looking like a bad day for me to do that...

Procrastination...cont

Well as I predicted, I woke up with a massive hangover and a friend passed out on the floor amidst some spilled liquid from the night (or a few hours) before. After passing back out and sleeping in till 12 30, I felt a little better. I felt even more better after taking a shower and eating. By two o clock I started my spanish comp due tomorrow, which I probably should have done way earlier. After that I continued to study for my MA exam that I had at 5 30. After that long class ended I came back and studied a bit for my map quiz tomorrow (which is easy and why I didn't really look at it sooner) and than started reading some articles for my philosophy class (which i probably should have done earlier and am still doing currently). I guess all in all it wasn't too terrible of a day. I still wish I would get the harder more pressing work out of the way days in advanced, or the day it's assigned. I still have this looming Media Arts event paper...but hopefully I'll be motivated and go out and just do it this weekend so I can stop worrying about. Oh...and I've received an acceptance letter from UCSC, but have been too lazy to check out the school online still. Maybe this weekend...

Procrastinating...ugh...

Well...lately I've been having trouble with my internet connection in my room. Oddly enough this makes me want to procrastinate more...however, one thing that it did do is sort of screw me over for yesterday. Before I typed my goals and audience for this assignment I did write a paragraph introducing this assignment...apparently it never got published and saved as a draft so I published it like now. Anyhow, today I guess was a little better. I don't have many pressing assignments and so I didn't start anything immediately. After getting back from my classes and other prior engagements I relaxed with my roommates for a little, than attempted to study for a Media Arts exam tomorrow. However, this did not go so well and soon I lost all energy and ended up laying down for about 20 min half asleep half awake until dinner. After dinner...with little to no energy still, I tried to take a nap to hopefully gain back some energy, but it hardly did me any good. I've been studying since about 7 o clock on and off. Trying to get everything done so I can drink and enjoy my night with my roommates and some friends. Hopefully tomorrow will prove a bit better, though the outcome looks unlikely as i foresee a slight hangover. Regardless, I have a few assignments for friday I would like to get done before I have to go to my class at night and take the exam. So fingers crossed and hopefully all this panic will motivate me tomorrow morning

Audience and Goals for Procrastinating

Audience: Well...aside from our teacher, pretty much it's me here. I mean unless someone somehow crosses my blog and finds my methods (if any arise and work) helpful.

Goals: Well...to keep a journal of my day to day progress in the open so that I'm forced to actually change my bad habit. Here goes nothing.

Procrastinating...getting over it.

UGH...so lazy. Sadly not a good way to take my first steps towards solving the problem. Procrastinating about solving procrastination feels almost comically ironic in this situation. Welllll at least I got it done right? So that should count for something, cause you knowww...you got to crawl before you walk, right? I know at some point in my life I wasn't like this...classical conditioning sucks. So I guess all it takes is classical conditioning to reverse it. Since high school I've had a chronic problem with bad procrastination...not doing assignments till lunch time when the class I have is next. I think the freedom of college sort of nudged it a bit further on and last semester just destroyed me. However, I finally got a bit motivated and have been trying to stay on top of my homework, but after a while I would only do some of the homework that I thought was easy or more entertaining to me and get them done with...than I'd be left with the harder stuff that I didn't want to do in the first place. I still get them done before hand...but not as early as I would actually prefer. So I think I need to start there, and hopefully the rest of my tasks and chores that I keep putting off will eventually follow.

Productivity Pointers

1. Managing time: The best way to stay productive is to manage your time in an efficient manner. Now I'm not saying to do work at any and all times you have a break, but do as much as you can within the limits of one day. The best thing to do is to plan out a schedule after assessing your assignments for the day or week or what have you. Fit in work times of an hour or so with breaks in between. Take your time in completing assignments rather than waiting till the very last minute. Even for those people who work best while under pressure (due to waiting till the day before or day of a huge assignment) the best thing to do would be to do the assignment in advance and if necessary review and revise it the day of or day before to get that extra motivation in the revision. Time management is key to keeping yourself in a good balance of work and play, cause remember all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. And all play and no work gets jack an F.

2. Be organized: Without organization, assignments can easily get lost in the clutter of the day. Many people have different ways of dealing with organization, so I suggest finding a method that works best for you. These techniques can range from writing up schedules, having calendars, setting alarms for reminders, asking friends for help, keeping your work space organized and putting things away neatly, or remembering them (if you tend to lose and forget things easy i would highly suggest avoiding this one). Being organized will lead to ease in completing and doing assignments. Notice how this tip blends with my other tip. By keeping good track and organization of your assignment, you will also be better able to manage your time when you have a clearer view of what is to be done in what amount of time. Staying on top of the work is the name of the game.

Hope these helped...though these are my tips, I often have trouble sticking to them myself. So remember to stay motivated in any and all work that you do. Feel pride in what you do...just because it's class and school work does not mean it all has to be boring or stupid. You are here for a reason, remember that.

-Kevin-