Saturday, September 18, 2010

The Hopeless Procrastinator (from Thursday)

    So anyone who knows me is well aware I'm a hopeless procrastinator. I've taken steps to overturn this trait, but it always manages to find its way back into my life. Prime example, I definitely came back to school this semester with an immoveable determination to be on top of everything. I installed a whiteboard in my room to constantly stay on top of my things to do, I posted all my course syllabi and due dates to ensure my success, I even put up a note to myself  that simply reads " Remember why you're here!" in BLACK BOLD letters. Now to some degree that all culminated into the success I had on my first test earlier this week. A 96.25 on Test One. As soon as I saw that , in my mind, I won. I was good, mission complete, I'm done for the day, time to go home and take a nap. In the process of this complacncy, I completely disragarded the fact that I had a presentation due in my biomanufacturing class today (Thursday). Would've done it last night but why do something then when I had until 4pm today. So I get to campus at 11:30am to  realize there's no parking ANYWHERE. I ended up parking on some back street that made me feel more like a student at Green Oaks Elementary than NC Central University as the only thing around me was a bus parking lot, woods, and no evidence of my campus. I ended up getting to my research lab around 12pm. I knew my presentation wouldn't take long, I allocated an hour as a suffice enough time to get it all done. Before long, everything changed, I was struggling terribly. It was 10min before the start of class when I was finally done. Literally, the toughest 9 slides I've ever had the displeasure of doing. I finally get to my class to present and realize it isn't due until tomorrow night by email. So all that perfecting and detailing I did to present in front of my peers was for nothing because I waited until the last minute. Shame on me.

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