Poll: Meeting deadlines

[Total LOLige]

If it's a piece of piss, I'll do it last minute. But if it requires a little more effort I'll do it early.

 

[Nouw]

I finish it as soon as I can but I hand it in on due date. There is no point handing it in early when you can work on it more and tweak it.

 

[Doclector]

Often, I try to do things as soon as possible, but the people I'm doing the work for/with have a tendency of being woefully incompetant. Uni, for example, seems to withhold information on a scale not so dissimiliar to north korea. Stuff that should be easy to find out, such as essay questions, specific guidelines regarding what will count against a grade in a piece of work, all of which are hidden away in the portal, or stored nowhere but our tutors minds, who are often incredibly hard to get simple answers out of.

 

[Xeraxis]

I've had my fair share of 5:00 A.M. scrambles to finish papers.

Sadly, I'm only able to achieve any sort of productivity in my work at the last possible moment before it is due, usually because I get distracted often or really don't feel like doing it.
Even though I manage (somehow) to almost always get important assignments turned in by the deadline, it has been a REALLY bad habit for the longest time, and unfortunately, I can't motivate myself to change that way of doing schoolwork.

 

[Risingblade]

Last minute, the stress, the panic it's..Exhilarating

 

[A Satanic Panda]

Last minute. Deadlines inspire creativity. At least, that's my excuse...

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Berstein

And when it you finally get your huge pass-or-fail paper done, you feel this... Inner peace... It's wonderful. Like you've just broken free of your captives and you see the sky for the first time days. Seeing the poll you guys must know what I'm talking about.

 

[arnoldthebird]

I work better under the pump, and my results tend to reflect that. I may also get distracted really easily...

 

[dyre]

I, uh, do my best work while under pressure. And without sleep.

Last minute. Deadlines inspire creativity. At least, that's my excuse...

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Berstein

And when it you finally get your huge pass-or-fail paper done, you feel this... Inner peace... It's wonderful. Like you've just broken free of your captives and you see the sky for the first time days. Seeing the poll you guys must know what I'm talking about.

As wonderful as that feeling is, it doesn't make up for having to ration myself three hours of sleep that night to get the paper done

 

[DANEgerous]

I have to say I took the stance albeit rather unhealthy and even dangerous to in generally dot it very early and if not which was at time very often get about half drunk lode up on caffeine and get it done.

It all depended on how much i needed to do, at times it was much of the former but at other quite a bit of the latter. I will say the former was general favored though both in total things I accomplished and what i wanted to do.

 

[Frozen Fox]

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It is all "Woosh, blah blah blah TPS reports" but then I hear my boss yelling at me and go back to playing Tetris because damn it feels good to be a gangster

 

[TheGauntman]

What kind of person are you when it comes to deadlines?

Do you complete it extra early to get it out the way?
Do you do it near the deadline, but not last minute?
Do you do it the day before?
Do you hand it in late because you always forget?

Extra early, for sure. I hate the stress of panicking about a deadline, plus it gives you lots of time to edit and tweak and shape and refine.

In the long run it's just easier to get it done early.

 

[Suicidejim]

Depending on what teacher it was, I'd either go for last minute, or hand it in late, make a deliberately exaggerated and hilarious excuse to buy time, then hand them sheer gold a few days later and be forgiven. The second option only worked on teachers who really liked me though.

All my best work has been the rushed stuff I yanked out of my ass five minutes before the deadline. My work genuinely seemed to get worse the earlier and more consistently I was working on it.

 

[Freechoice]

I'm starting to get into a bad habit of leaving it until the last minute as I can't seem to motivate myself to do any actual work until the last minute, in which panic sets in and I have it.

This is bad of me, but I really can not motivate myself to do work anymore and it scares me. I have like a month until my final exams start, and I need to do some more work but I can't bring myself to. Even if I rid myself of all distractions I get so bored I end up daydreaming and losing an hour from my 75 minute time limit I need for these questions. I wasn't always like this, but now I am, and I can't for the life of me think why. Nothing has changed about me personality wise, and my social life with friends has stayed the same, but I am in such a constant state of procrastination that I'm starting to think I need some help.

No Calumon because I'm making unsubtle gestures towards the community to give me advice.

Oh shit, I was wondering why there was no Calumon. Message me on steam. I'll send you my profile.

 

[Marter]

Yeah, I'm the kind of person who isn't going to do an assignment until right before it's due. If I can put it off until the last day, I will.

I keep getting told that this will someday come back to hurt me. It has yet to, and my first year of university is now complete (after exams).