You know when you leave that essay, assignment, project or studying until the last minute and then, all of a sudden, you are forced to stay up to ridiculous hours trying to get it done and yet trying to not make it noticable that it was a last minute scramble? Cue me right now. You know that whenever you do this, not only is your grade lower than it probably should be but you are also a lot more tired for the rest of the week (possibly more depending on your plans and schedule for the weekend) and you always get to that point where writer’s block crossed with extreme boredom, anger for leaving things until the last minute and the want to give up and go to sleep happens. For me this is usually about 1:30am and guess what time it is as I write this post…1:34am. Its like students, especially those attending university, like to inflict themselves with this self-torture and really, I’m not sure why, even though I am guilty of it too. Why don’t we get our butts in gear and get things done ahead of time?? Well I guess some of us do and those are the ones who pull of ridiculously high marks in all their classes all the time and the rest of us resent them while secretly envying their ability to be organized. Back to my question though…what do we enjoy putting ourselves through hell? We drink coffee and energy drinks to keep awake but our concentration keeps going down and, when you look back at that paper you wrote, you can see how you just really wanted to end it and go to bed as the quality slowly decreases. I’m sure that our professors know that we left it to the last minute, how could they not? But then again maybe they understand. They were undergrad and graduate students at one time too, pulling all-nighters and doing things at the last minute. Or at least that’s what I like to think, they were most likely the organized ones who always handed things in early for some ridiculous reason.

I guess all I really want to say is…I’m at that stage and I’m going to give in and try to finish it in the morning (good luck to me on that one) and, for the rest of the week, I will be extremely tired…..excellent!